While the rise of oil paint is associated with the Renaissance, paintings using poppy-seed oil have been dated as far back as seventh-century Afghanistan. But there's one key reason this paint ...

An artist has commemorated Remembrance Day by painting poppies and soldiers on to used tea bags to honour those who ...

16 x 23.5 in. (40.6 x 59.7 cm.) Condition: Visual: Overall good condition. Dust accumulation and grime commensurate with age. An unobtrusive and fine 2" surface scratch near the upper edge, at center.

The drying oils are of great value in the arts, tlieir principal application being in the art ... hemp, poppy, sunflower, and many nut-bearing trees may be mentioned. Indeed good nut-oil ...

On Tuesday, November 12, Viewpoint School in Calabasas held an unveiling ceremony for its dramatic installation, “The Art of ...

Aqa Noor Kintuz was hired as provincial chief of police in the northeastern Afghan province of Badakhshan and charged with destroying its plentiful poppy fields ... cooking oil and burn the ...

Images of tumbling poppies will be projected inside Winchester Cathedral. Poppy Fields is a light and sound show at Winchester Cathedral Projections will create a sea of poppies tumbling down the ...

A British citizen, he has been a journalist since 2000, reporting on a wide range of financial, economic and political subjects that led him as far as the poppy fields of Afghanistan, the copper ...

The United Nations have said that the Taleban made an estimated US$100m (£50m) in 2007 from Afghan farmers growing poppy for the opium trade. Opium produced from the plants fuels the insurgency ...

Ahead we elaborate on the differences between the various types of paint. Keep in mind that there’s overlap here: For example, interior and exterior paints come in oil-based, acrylic ...

A ticket will be required to view Poppy Fields (c) Luxmuralis / Historic Royal Palaces Historic Royal Palaces, the charity which looks after the Tower of London, teamed up with light art ...

And as for the drug trade, look at what happened to opium poppy cultivation after 2001 ... having 9.5 percent of the world's total proven oil reserves, and Turkmenistan having about 5 percent ...