Pen and Ink artwork by Babu Eshwar Prasad. Parrot Paradise by Chinese artist Wu Guanzhong; coloured ink on paper. Known for their intense colour and varied textures, pastels have been in use since the Renaissance, gaining considerable popularity in the 18th century. Pastels are created by mixing dry pigment, chalk and a binder together to form a thick paste, which is then allowed to dry. Soft pastels and oil pastels are known for their buttery and waxy texture, while hard pastels produce a sharp drawing material that is useful for fine details.
La Toilette by Edgar Degas; pastel on paper, A term used to describe a combination of different materials, mixed media artworks have gained much popularity in recent times. An example of a mixed media artwork could be a combination of paint, ink, and metal on canvas.
The advantage of mixed media lies in its ability to showcase multiple desired effects on the artwork. It has an experimental feel, and ensuring appropriate layering is an important aspect of this technique. Mixed Media work by Ekta Singha, available for purchase on Artisera. While no medium is better or significantly easier to master than the other, each creates a unique feel and texture, giving a distinct character to a piece of art.
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However, excess use of oils will not only substantially increase the drying time, but can cause the paint film to wrinkle. Wax is commonly added in small amounts to paint as a stabiliser, but used in larger amounts it creates a wonderful impasto effect that dries quickly to a matt finish. Wax has been used for centuries to create softly luminous effects when painted thinly.
It can be applied either as a cold paste mixed with oils or heated using the encaustic method. A thin final coat of cold wax makes a wonderful matting agent, allowing paintings to be hung in difficult light. Wax is both brittle and easy to melt, limiting its use to rigid panels unless it is combined with another ingredient.
Painters have long used tree resins dissolved in turpentine a varnish to add both gloss to the paint and decrease drying time. Historically, all manner of resins were used — amber, dammar, gum arabic or mastic, for example — but most have fallen by the wayside as they have proved unstable in the long term, causing the paint film to yellow, peel or crack. Despite these known defects, resins add such amazing and subtle effects to oil paints that they continue to be used.
A modern synthetic resin known as alkyd promises to solve these defects, allowing painters to recreate effects similar to Turner, without the fading and cracking that afflicts his work. A solvent is a thinner such as turpentine or white spirit. Solvents significantly decrease drying time, but weaken and dull the paint film, making them ideal for an imprimatura stained ground or other initial painting stages.
Solvents are also a key ingredient in resinous mediums. They can be used to rapidly underpaint oils and then be worked over in a matter of minutes. Solvents applied to upper layers of oils can create interesting effects. A low-odour solvent, such as Gamsol or Sansodor, will make this safer and more pleasant but extend the drying time.
With the above in mind, we can help you pick the right paint medium. Whether you're working in oil, acrylic or watercolour, there's a medium to help you acheive the effect you want. Most oil paints are made from pigments mixed with a binder, which is usually linseed oil. However, don't despair. Manufacturers are well aware of the problems and will have adjusted the formulation of the paint colours as far as practicable, to even out this drying disparity, but it still exists.
It's not an exhaustive list and it's certainly one you don't need to stress over. However, it might be helpful if you have had problems in the past in identifying what might have gone wrong and what to do about it next time. These notes are collated from several manufacturer's websites, so the speed of drying of similarly-named colours may be slightly different, depending upon the formulation of whichever brand you use.
Now some purists declare that if you're going to paint in oils, you should embrace the slow drying times, rather than fight them. That's all well and good, but many people who want to paint in oils simply don't have the time - or the space in their homes - to leave a painting for days or even weeks on end while one layer dries sufficiently to apply the next one.
In addition, it's so easy for that first burst of enthusiasm to slowly morph into that well-known phrase of 'this is as interesting as watching paint dry We know that a mix of linseed oil and low odour thinners as a medium will speed up drying compared to using only paint or just adding linseed or any of the other oils.
And as we've seen, some of the linseed oil variants are designed to speed up the process anyway. But not enough for many artists.
However, there are two similar products, widely available, which have really made an impact on the ability of the oil painter to progress their masterpiece much more rapidly. These are Liquin and Alkyd Mediums and have proved to be a real boon over the past few years as they provide either a gel or alternatively a liquid with the viscosity of clear honey that literally halves the drying time of oils.
Used exactly like any other medium, they can increase transparency and flow of the paint and allow it to be brushed out more readily. The gel works even better when a more impasto effect is required but, depending on the paint thickness, drying can take less than 24 hours, allowing the artist to rapidly progress the painting while still in the initial flush of enthusiasm. I'll briefly mention the 'Fat Over Lean' principle, which you may have heard of, because it's relevant to using oil mediums and the speed of drying.
The first layer might be the basic outline such as the one that was illustrated at the beginning of this article. Mostly turpentine, no linseed oil and very little paint. Then more detailed layers with more subtle light and shade and then perhaps a glaze over parts of the painting followed finally by the highlights.
Because the 'leanest' layers dry quite quickly you need put these down first, with the 'fattest' layers following on. The reason for this is that a lean layer, which has solvent and paint but very little oil content, will not only dry much more quickly than one which has more oil added to the mix, but it will be less flexible too and prone to cracking.
So, if this thin wash had been put on top of a layer which had a good proportion of linseed oil added to it, it would probably crack and craze, as the fatter layer underneath moved as it dried and put stresses on the thin, inflexible, solvent-rich paint film. This becomes more pronounced if you put, say, a relatively thin film such as a glaze, using more solvent than oil, over a thick, impasto passage in the painting.
Even though you think the impasto has dried thoroughly, it can keep drying and moving for many months, causing the all too familiar cracking of paint layers. However, if the thin glaze has a higher proportion of oil added to the mix than that in the impasto layer, all should be well, because the glaze will dry a little more slowly than the layer beneath.
So remember, it's not the type of oil that you mix with your paints that will impact on the fat-over-lean rule, but the proportion of oil you add to each paint layer. It's not an exact science and there's no need to get out measuring cups to check each layer. It might be as little as one brush load of paint medium in one layer of paint and two in the next and so on.
Just make sure that each layer has a touch more oil than the preceding one and you should have very few problems. Some artists don't use mediums at all, preferring to use the paint straight out of the tube and let the natural process of drying take its course. Others use a touch of this and a drop of that with a little bit of something else mixed in because it suits their style.
Most manufacturers provide a 'Painting Medium' that comes ready mixed. This is, typically, a combination of linseed oil, white spirit and lavender oil so providing a ready-made additive for your paints, incorporating resilience, flexibility, gloss and some reduction in drying time.
Now I can imagine that what I've shown you so far might be bewildering to the newcomer, even though it's just a small cross-section of what is available as oil painting mediums.
The good news is that in my opinion, to get started, we can boil all these down to just three items that can propel you confidently on your oil painting adventures. It provides the ability for the paint to be moved easily around the canvas and dries pretty quickly for, like many painters, I'm impatient to move things along. The linseed oil also leaves a reasonably glossy finish, though I always varnish the painting when it's fully dry to even out the sheen.
Finally, in a third meaning, the term medium also refers to the liquid in which the pigment is suspended to make paint. So the medium of the medium of oil paint is linseed oil. Does this text contain inaccurate information or language that you feel we should improve or change?
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