________ can create many different effects, depending on how it is applied. Chinese-born artist Hung Liu utilized these qualities to separate reality and the ideal in her work Interregnum.

Oil painting is a pictorial technique in which the colorful matter is obtained from the mixture of the coloring pigment with the oil. This mixture serves to join the different pigments between them and these with the support (for example, the fabric).

Currently, oil colors are marketed prefabricated in tubes, although they often tend, over time, to spoil due to an excessive amount of oil and wax added to prevent rapid drying.

To get more transparent colors, and thus prevent certain dyes, such as white, green and blue, become opaque, it is usually added to the usual fatty oils, which produce a dense and viscous matter, some dissolvable oils, also called essential oils (one of the most used is the essence of turpentine).

Once the paint is finished, it is usual to pass a layer of protective varnish, which can also be used to brighten the color or can be applied between the two color layers to prevent oil from the top layer, when passing to the layer lower, dry and spoil. The final varnishes, when dried, form a transparent film.