oil mediums?

Question

In the past I've used linseed oil and turpentine for a medium. I want to have the paint dry faster - I'm looking for recipes. Someone told me that the mixture of Stand Oil, turpentine, cobalt drier and Damar varnish is excellent. Any thoughts or other recipes?

Answer 1

My thought is that I don't like breathing oil paints or their solvents, varnishes, etc.

Be careful as you mix these things together. Don't forget to wear a respirator and gloves.

Have you ever thought of switching to water-based mediums? There are so many good products and colors on the market. My favorite products for painting, collage and altered art are those manufactured by Golden. When doing printmaking I have also switched to a water-based product called Akua and produced by Rostow & Jung.

These products are safer for you and make the earth a better place to live.

Answer 2

Yup:

" The Materials of The Artist and their Use In Painting " By Max Doerner

Winsor Newton makes or did make a water clear, washed, cold pressed Poppy Oil. This is what the Dutch Little Masters used in all their works and including probably both Van Dyck and Rembrandt as well as Jan Lievens during their last years as apprentice painters with the likes of Lastman.

( Absolutely no need of turpentine. It was never intended to be painted with. )

Damar Varnish dissolved 1:3 in Poppy oil. It will facillitate the colors ' standing up ' which is the effect you want and what Leonardo strove for in his sfumatto effect. That visual ' air. '

Too, a ground up crystal goblet to make real silica helps in taming the chromatic intensity to bring it up to power much in the way Velazquez and Frans Hals did. ( See ' Laughing Boy ' by the latter. ) Velazquez probably used a particular type of gypsum white.

Of paramount importance, is was, always will be: The ground and underpainting ( in oil ).

There is no one medium. You attenuate it to whatever the visual effect you are going for, but this book will prove invaluable. You may also wish to check the following site:

http://www.studioproducts.com/

Answer 3

Check out Golden, their web site might help you.