About oil painting...?

Question

...can i apply my second coat of paint if my first coat isn't quite dry yet? Almost 3 weeks ago i painted my background, and i'm getting really impatient. It is almost dry, when i touch it, my fingers aren't full of paint, but i still see it shimmering....that wet look...so what can i do, do i have to wait or what.???

Answer 1

thats the beauty of oil painting...you don't have to wait to do anything to it...oils take at least a full year to dry permentatly...even when it feels and looks dry it might be still wet underneath.

Answer 2

I agree with the answers given. Painting with oils offers you a really great freedom other mediums don't offer. the down side to that is oils have the bad tendency to, "mud up", This happens when you apply a wet on wet with colors that conflict with each other on the color wheel. A s in your case where your background is almost dry that will have to be your call if you feel it's past potential mudding.
Suggestion for the future would be to get yourself a dryer to add with the paint so your paint will dry quicker. For those impatient times all of us artist go through.
I would suggest a linseed oil turpentine mix. This will speed up your drying time considerably. And it will not damage your painting, when used with prudence.
Good luck with you project, and I hope this helps a little.

Answer 3

Oil paints dry by oxidation, meaning they need oxygen to permeate the entire layer before it cures. This could take weeks or even months, depending on atmospheric conditions, the pigment type (Titanium White is a notoriously slow-drying pigment) and also the amount of linseed oil you've used.

You may have heard the term "Fat Over Lean" - and this is where it applies. If you paint a faster-drying (or "lean") layer over a "fat" layer, the top layer will crack once the fat layer cures.

It sounds as if you've used lots of linseed or other slow-drying oil in your background. To avoid this wait in the future, avoid the use of too much linseed oil or Titanium White in your base layer. You could add turpentine or mineral spirits to speed the drying, or use an Alkyd medium like Liquin or Galkyd or the like.

If you paint on it now, you'll have to use a "fat" or oil-rich paint mixture - and that will slow things down even more - so wait til the oil sheen is gone and start something else while you're waiting!

Happy painting

Answer 4

Yes, you can, but remember the never to paint '' lean over fat '' rule, or the top layer will crack in time as the bottom layer cures. My work can be checked out at hellosanantonio.com under artist name ''Guerro''. I preffer to paint wet on wet and my paintings are usually completed in two to three days. I use very little linseed oil and only to soften a really thick paint, waiting about one day to go back and add detail, as i still want the bottom layer to interact with new .

Answer 5

I paint in oil and that i on no account use turpentine as a medium. i exploit a mix of linseed oil and mineral spirits or a mix of stand oil and mineral spirits. those are good mediums. when I do a palette knife portray, i exploit galkyd gel or Lukkas paint butter (yet those are performed alla prima). while adhering to the undying 7-layer or fat over lean rule prepare thicker layers of paint over skinny layers; for this reason the share of blend changes reckoning on what layer. working example, i exploit basically mineral spirit interior the preliminary wash or stain. Even the “odorless” turpentine isn’t as good a solvent as mineral spirits. right here is an exerpt on the type betw turp & min spirits from "Ask the pros" "the biggest distinction between mineral spirits and turpentine is that the turpentines could properly be greater volatile to apply. they are distilled from the sap of somewhat some species of pine wood (the main well-known being the long-Leaf Yellow Pine, even nevertheless there’s a great sort) and that they could properly be somewhat poisonous, reckoning on the species. I keep away from utilising any variety of turpentine till I’m dissolving a varnish resin that demands it or utilising a medium that includes a resin dissolved in gum turpentine, because of the fact in maximum different situations i discover it pointless. Mineral spirits is a marvelous solvent, and it could additionally be utilized by skill of itself to skinny your oil paint interior the early ranges of a portray. basically be careful to no longer overuse mineral spirits as a thinner or you’ll finally end up with an underbound paint that won’t stick to your floor."

Answer 6

Oils take YEARS to dry. Paint wet on wet to avoid cracking. I have no patience so I use acrylic. if you don't like a layer... peel it off. I work in a mixed media, never oils.

Answer 7

YESSS!!!! just it will want to smug a lil more and blend witht the other colors but try using water based oils they dry alot faster...



btw... painting is patiance