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| Subject: | Re: A Few More Questions |  |
| Date: | Jun 8, 2003 |
| From: | Andy Herbert | |
HI Pete.
I think Linseed oil is the medium used for oil paint. It will end up adding shininess to the finish, I think. It is not a thinner! When you get expensive oil paints there tends to be a little
oily residue separated from pigment in the top of the tube. I think that's linseed oil.
I think either of the other products will work. The Testor's thinner is enamel thinner right? You can mix oil paints with enamels (makes the oils dry matte, and you can get lots of shading
variations with the enamels then), so it should work.
I have two products I use. One is available in big jugs at Michaels and similar stores. I think the brand is Mona Lisa Odorless thinner. That works well. When I lived in Montreal I went to an
artist's supply store and bought odorless thinner in a big litre bottle. It was about $5. I gave it away before moving to the US (bottle of thinner in a moving truck heading to Texas! Bad idea I
thought).
The other stuff I have is some eco-friendly Turpenoid. That is more of a brush cleaner from what I can tell. The odorless thinner works well, and as the Art store person said in Montreal, at
least it doesn't stink while it kills you...
See David Nickels' recent post regarding the possible health hazards of all this stuff... :(
I wonder if the water mixable oil paints could be used in washes with water and dishsoap... I have some and I'll have to try that some time. I bet there's a lot of filler in those paints.
I heartily recommend taking some older kit and trying out an oil wash or two. The best part is that you can watch it dry, and wipe off the stuff you don't like because of the slow drying time.
Lately I've been adding tons of pastel chalk after doing washes to simulate fresher dust in crevices, with older grime underneath. It was somewhat convincing the last time I tried.
Cheers
Andy |
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