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Subject: painting mediums

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seeyosef
Posts:4
05/11/2007 10:23 AM Alert 
Would like opinions about working with liquin  and other oil painting mediums. Thanks
Marian

Posts:183
05/20/2007 1:41 PM Alert 
Hi,
I thought I had responded to this one but it disappeared.

Well here's my experience...

I have used liquin and like it. Camille Przewodik used it in a workshop she led that I attended. It seemed to make the paint creamy and it helped it spread nicely.
I tried it and it helps the paint dry a bit more quickly as well as making it spread nicely. It is not exactly a liquid but "melts" easily when you put it in with the paint. The resulting painting didn't have undue reflections and looked nice.
I don't use liquin all of the time.. mostly I prefer using cold pressed linseed oil. Not sure WHY I prefer it except it's easly to drop onto my palette and spread around and it looks nice once the paint has dried.

I saw a demo at one of my local art clubs and the artist used Copal painting medium. His painting was lovely and it paint seemed to move so smoothly as he painted it so I thought I'd try it. (Ha don't you wish a MEDIUM could make you paint like you do in your dreams??? ) Anyway I brought it and tried it on a still life I had recently started. First it has a strong odor which the other two mediums don't. I hadn't noticed it during the demo but I could live with that. I liked the way it made my paint flow. It seemed to help it dry a bit faster and generally I was happy with it until a few weeks later when I saw my painting hanging on a wall under some directed lighting. The area where I had used the Copal was MUCH shinier than the rest of the painting and since it happened to have been a shadow area it looked wierd. I'm hoping now that when I varnish it later it will even out the reflective areas a bit.
Sooooo regarding THAT medium... I'll either make sure I paint the whole painting using it OR I won't use it at all.

I think the best thing for anyone to do is to try different things --- mediums, paints, brushes and varnishes to see what "rings your chimes". It's all part of the joy of learning.
Sometimes we paint to see more clearly or to feel more deeply.
Marian
www.marianfortunati.com
www.fortunatifineart.com
rannlot
Posts:9
08/01/2007 7:14 PM Alert 
i have used linseed oil as a glaze and it seemd to "bead" up--a look I was not going for! Same result happened when I used gamblin galklyd---has this happend to anyone? or any idea why? lastly, any recipes for a nice glazing medium that will not bead up this way?
Billstudio
Posts:3
08/19/2007 6:59 AM Alert 

With both the linseed oil and the galkyd you are probably using too high a percentage of medium to paint and ..."alligator skin" is the result. You might want to try either the galkyd gell( in a tube) or a classic mixture of 1/2 turpentine(not mineral spirits  it doesn't dissolve damar varnish very well) 1/4 linseed oil and 1/4 damar varnish.

Another explanation is that the surface on which you are applying the glaze is to slick. Apply a very thin layer of damar retouch varnish let it dry and then use the "classic" glazing medium. Good luck. Bill
rannlot
Posts:9
08/24/2007 6:01 PM Alert 
thank you Bill.  Those are good suggestions, needed that advise!  i do have some of the gell and rarely use it. 
rannlot
Posts:9
08/24/2007 6:07 PM Alert 
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