Next Time You Buy Paint Mediums for Oil Painting, Consider This
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- čas přidán 23. 12. 2023
- I think I care more about how the medium feels in my brush than what it actually does 😂! What’s your fav medium for oil painting? Here is my oil medium recipe btw! xoxo Prof Lieu
1 part linseed oil
1 part stand oil
3 parts Gamsol
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She has a way of describing things so simply that even me who’ve never painted with anything but watercolor & gouache can understand.
We love to hear that! Thanks for learning with us! 🥰 -Lauryn, Art Prof Teaching Artist
love stand oil with a bit of gamsol.
This is super helpful. I find all the mediums a bit confusing!
I love your channel, its very Informative.
So nice of you!! -Prof Lieu
I never knew that my cravings for dessert will help me understand mediums. Now, if only I can draw…. LOL
Hahaha, maybe drawing implements like charcoal or pencils could be likened to....idk, crackers? 😂 -Lauryn, Art Prof Teaching Artist
Thank you for talking about this.❤🙂
I’m pretty new to oils & painting solvent-free, so it’s taken some extra research & experimentation to find good materials to start with, but after studying what a good few solvent-free painters are doing, I settled on Walnut Oil as my primary oil. If I want to thin it I have tried Spike Oil, though even that I have to use outdoors, & it’s so expensive, I might end up just using diluted acrylics for underpainting or sketching with pencil.
I’m experimenting with using solvent-free alkyd medium, sometimes on its own (though it dries VERY glossy so that’s not always desirable)… Tonight I’m trying mixing a little solvent-free gel medium with just a touch of walnut oil, to see whether the alkyd causes it to dry fast enough that that works fine, or if the presence of both walnut oil & safflower oil causes it to have drying problems (I use so little at a time- it just takes literally drops to turn a significant blob of paint very fluid (or with the gel, more fluid but with a gel-like body), so I don’t know if it’s enough to really cause big problems (you’re already mixing any additional oil you add with the linseed oil that’s natively in the paint, so I imagine there’s at least a little leeway when it comes to mixing oils, even though it’s not generally advisable- I just don’t have any pure alkyd medium without safflower oil, & afaik that stuff usually has VOCs rather than being solvent free. So it may turn out that I can’t mix it, but really the hope was just to moderate the solvent-free medium’s extreme gloss, to give it a little more moderate of a dry time, & to see if I could use the gel to give it more body… Also, in order to potentially use the alkyd-safflower solvent-free medium in order to widen the spectrum of fat/lean layers I can achieve, working with walnut oil (in order to avoid having to use turpentine as you usually do with linseed oil). I do really like the fluid viscosity of walnut oil- it flows off the brush wonderfully. If it dried just a smidge faster so that it was better for early/lean layers without the need for spike oil, & if it didn’t have the con of a slightly less strong paint film than linseed oil, then it would be quite ideal for me… But if I can find good options to mix with it for leaner & fatter layers then the dry time shouldn’t be a huge deal, & by all accounts it should work pretty well even if in some respects, linseed oil is still considered the gold standard (I just don’t have a big studio & don’t want to have to go outdoors every time I oil paint, so at least for the time being, some combination of these materials seems like it’ll work pretty well).
Walnut oil is my tried & true pick as well! It can be so hard to branch away, especially if you're working in a limited space. Thanks for sharing your experience with us! - Mia, Art Prof Staff
I heard cold wax mwdium can be used to protect watercolour paintings. Is this the case? What more can you share about cold wax medium used like that?
I've never heard it used that way, but I bet it makes for such a cool texture! I'd give it a shot. - Mia, Art Prof Staff
@@artprof Hi Mía! I got my hands on some Schmincke cold wax medium. I tested it on a colour swatch card. Ooohhh, so silky! The watercolour did not run off and water slides off it. You should try it :-)
This explains why I prefer my OMS and Walnut Oil mixture. Hated the drag of Liquin.
Ive never painted with oils. It looks beautiful to use (the emotional beauty). But what is the safety of painting in oils inside in smallish rooms (like an apartment)?
As long as you have proper ventilation you'll be just fine! - Mia, Art Prof Staff
Thanks for that, artprof!
What can you tell me about gamisol, linseed oil, walnut oil. Etc? Thank you.
We have some resources here! artprof.org/learn/tracks/painting-basics-track/ - Mia, Art Prof Staff
Damar should not be used as a medium at all, just as a final varnish. There are other final varnishes which will do well, more modern ones. I always loved stand oil, but can no longer do the chemical thing. Luckily there are water based alternatives these days.
Thanks for the heads up! I used to really like stand oil too, but it also ages kind of poorly depending how much I've used, so I'm also looking for an alternative. -Lauryn, Art Prof Teaching Artist
which do you prefer
I like using an oil medium recipe, its at the end of the video -Prof Lieu