To choose the right technique is not always an easy task. Here you can find some information about the techniques available for portrait making and their advantages and disadvantages.

Oil Colors
This is probably the most popular technique in art of painting.
Oil colors is the general term referring to the oil-petroleum based paints. Different vegetable oils, such as linseed oil, poppy oil, etc., are added to the oil paints for better preserving the colors and their brightness. Due to their thickness the oil paints are usually used with solvents, most common of which is turpentine. The degree of their rarefaction determines their density and coverability. Their most diluted form is called ‘aquarelle technique’. With the undiluted paints and with great thickness of the layer (sometimes reaching several centimeters) we have the so called ‘raised technique” etc.

The art painting with oil colors is known for its long period of drying. Therefore the painting with oil colors is recognized as one of the most complex and expensive techniques in art painting.  Oil colors can be applied on a specially prepared (using special primes) linen or cotton canvases, supported by sub-frames from wood or other similar surfaces

As an artistic technique in art painting oil colors are known for their durability and good preserving characteristics, as well the depth of their color tones. It is known that as the time goes the oil color paintings become more beautiful and shining due to the long drying process of the lower layers of paint.
In order to enhance the beauty of an oil painting it should be placed in an appropriate frame. No glass protection is required with the oil paintings, however, depending on the painting itself, a suitable wooden picture mount can be chosen, serving as a transition medium between the painting and the frame and thus enhancing the qualities and exquisiteness of the painting.