Use dry oil properly

Types of Drying Oils Used in Oil Painting

To draw an oil painting, various solvents, such as dry oil, volatile melting oil, varnish, and resin, are used.


Among them, dry oil is particularly important in oil paintings. By using this, the work gives the work a glossy feeling peculiar to oil, strengthens the screen, and improves brushing.

However, if you draw it alone, the screen may not dry easily, it will cause yellow or crack, or it will take time to dry.


For this reason, oil painting is proceeded using the above solvent blended.

Of course, you may change the type of solvent or change the type depending on the process you are drawing.

Other than that, the combination is free because the chikka chief and the synthetic resin that accelerate the drying speed are added.

Depending on the manufacturer, there are also formulated solutions, so it is recommended for beginners to use them.


However, if you get used to ready -made products, choosing the one that suits your work may be one step in creating original works.


There is a technique called fat overlean in oil painting.

This means that when you apply paint overlapping, you can get cracks by increasing the oil contained in the paint as you go to the upper layer. This can increase the robustness of the screen.

In the early stages, it was drawn with volatile oils such as telepin and petrol, painting oil in the middle layer, and dry oil was added to painting oil, and finally in the order of screen protection fruit. You can create a screen.


There are several types and unsuitable dry oils.

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① Poppy oil




Dry oil that is oiled and purified from the seeds of molar.


Martial sediment before purification (image)


If you've ever got an oil painting, you've probably heard about linseed oil and poppy oil.

This is a Medium that has been used in paintings in the Flanders, which is the brightest color that dries slower than Linseed oil. Therefore, it is also used when producing white with oil paint.

This is also very easy to handle, so it is also recommended for beginners.




② Walnut oil




It is a dried oil that is oiled and purified from the walnut.

Although drying is slower than linseed oil, it is suitable for pale colors because it has less yellow change, so it is recommended to mix it with lead white.

Many old painters in Italy used walnut oil made from walnuts available locally instead of linseed oil.

Walnut oil is more popular than Flandl's linseed oil in the Renaissance period, and Leonardo Davinci and Giorgio Vasari refer to the oil.

In the early Renaissance, it was used as a component of Emulsion.



③ Black oil




It is composed of linseed oil (98.5%) and lead oxide (1.5%), and is made of old -fashioned recipe for several hours boiled at a temperature of about 220 ° C.

This is a quick -drying oil for the purpose of adding it to a drawing liquid, unlike the oil from ① to ②. Mixing an appropriate amount helps to dry the inside of the coating.

The oil itself has a very strong color, so it is not used for bright colors and is suitable for intermediate and dark colors.



④ Cold press linseed oil

⑤ Cold press walnut oil




Dry oil obtained by low -temperature squeezing method.


Martial sediment before purification (image)



It is mainly used when making oil paint by kneading pigments.

Mixing it with the Medium reduces the viscosity of the paint and improves liquidity.

In this lab, we offer marble and oil -colored medium as well as marble mahers for making paint, so you can also create oil paint of your favorite pigment.

Use the linseed for medium brightness pigments, and use Walnut for the high -brightness of the pigment.




At first glance, it is a dry oil choice that seems difficult when arranged in this way, but it is not difficult to learn the theory.

Unlike water -soluble paint, oil paint that can create various expressions by changing the Medium.

By all means, please look for your own picture skin and glossy.

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Art Materials Expert at PIGMENT TOKYO

AKIRA OYA

Born in 1989 in Tokyo. Master of Fine Art and Design at Nihon University College of Art. While working at PIGMENT TOKYO as an Art Materials Expert, he also continues his career as a visual artist.

Born in 1989 in Tokyo. Master of Fine Art and Design at Nihon University College of Art. While working at PIGMENT TOKYO as an Art Materials Expert, he also continues his career as a visual artist.