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You want to thin down the color consistency or increase it, the best medium to achieve this oil. Oil paintings are one of the popular categories of painting in today's world.
These oil paintings use different techniques. The oil painting can be done after giving the outline of the composition either with water soluble paints or acrylics.
Then, apply the paint; however, if the paint is not thin, turpentine can be used as a thinner. Usage of acrylic or other water soluble paints are recommended as turpentine is toxic.
The other technique for oil painting is by drawing the composition with vine charcoal or water soluble pencils. Vine charcoal is unlike other charcoals and does not smudge, and easy to work with. To use the water soluble pencils, just apply it over the area as though you do it with color pencils and using a damp brush, spread the colors evenly.
Another technique, "Fat over Lean" is used to avoid the oil paint from cracking when dried.
In this technique, it is made sure that the lower layers of the oil painting dry first rather than the upper layer which has the direct contact with the atmosphere.
The Fat oil paint is mixed with oil like linseed oil, cold-pressed linseed oil, Stand oil, Sun-thickened linseed oil, Sun-bleached linseed oil, poppyseed oil, Safflower oil, walnut oil or boiled oils, to increase the thickness and thereby increasing the time taken to dry.
Lean oil paint is mixed with oil that easily dries. Then, the lean oil paint is applied on the target, and on the top of it, the fat oil paint is applied.
The important points to remember in this technique are that the paint should not wrinkle, nor should it become yellow or darken soon. Moreover, better oil should be used to get the appropriate color, and thickness. Cadmium reds and cadmium yellow are oil paints with medium oil content. |
