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How do I get started with oil painting?

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

You need to make sure your canvas size, that is to say, it has been coated with a substance in order to protect the paint and turpentine - the corrosive substances, and over time will break the oil. Rabbit skin glue or PVA glue mixed paint will do the trick.

You can also prime the canvas with plaster if you want to.

You can thin paint and turnpentine, this is a very useful first layer. Fun to try, because you are the next great luminous colors through each other. You can thin it so it is water, paint done very fast, in this way.

You can also mix linseed oil and turpentine the top of the paint, and can make the mixture thicker and the palette knife to apply if you wish.

You can also paint mixed with sand or sawdust, to their canvas, and create texture. I also see them mixed together successfully polyfilla.

Your canvas should be primed, so if you need to paint was not with the plaster. Another thing you should not forget that some solvent cleaning your brushes, and some rags. You can odorless solvent. You can also clean up with turpentine.

Thinning paint with turpentine to make the drying rate.  Wholesale oil paintings to make smooth, shiny and dry slowly. I like to mix the two is about 50:50, so that painting.

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Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

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