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MY FRIEND LUCIE
Here's Lucie doing her 'puppy Yoga'.....actually she's 'hiding a bone'...so cute! Not too inspired to paint lately, partly I think due to needing to change to water soluble oils (because of fumes from reg. oils). The consistency is just not the same......want to try Holbein's medium before giving up on wso's. Happy painting out there.
2 comments:
Hi Francesca,
It's possible to paint with regular oils and not use solvents, I did that for years. There are no solvents in the paints themselves, nor in linseed oil. Instead of using solvent-based thinners, you can use linseed oil (get a large, inexpensive can of it at a hardware store) for thinning oil paint and cleaning brushes--then wash them with soap and water. You can actually use any type of cheap oil, like corn oil, Wesson, etc (followed by soap and water), for cleaning brushes. Linseed, walnut, or safflower oil for painting medium.
So unless you work very large and need lots of very transparent thin underwashes, you really don't need solvent-based thinners at all. If you do decide to switch to wso's, I hope you find a brand that you can live with. I never could. You could also think about using wso's if you need thin underwashes, then changing to regular oils for the thick upper layers.
Hi Kathryn thanks so much for the info, I'll get some linseed oil. Doesn't seem possible the answer could be so simple.I'd love to stay with reg. oils GRAZIE GRAZIE F
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