Today in class, I was attempting to view videos online to see if I could learn how to distinguish between the different brushes when I hear that the woman in this particular video says turpentine. Intrigued, I decided to make a quick Google search. This is what I found:
The traditional solvent for oil paint is turpentine. Turpentine is used in traditional oil painting mediums, especially those that contain damar varnish. Unfortunately, turpentine produces noxious fumes. Odorless, artist quality mineral spirits (OMS) is now available, which dramatically cuts down on noxious fumes. Hardware store mineral spirits or paint thinners also produce dangerous fumes and are not suitable for fine art oil painting.
Oil paints cannot be mixed with water or water based paints, including acrylics. Some artists, however, layer oil paints on top of dry acrylic paint or gesso. Acrylics cannot, however, be used on top of oil paints because they will not properly bind to the oil surface.Interesting.
Apparently it's a strong solvent used to take out paint. It's better at cleaning off paint compared to water, and also serves in diluting the amount of paint (in case I want to make the painting look watery or less bright I guess). Very interesting.
Artist's White Spirit (or something like that) was also something that I decided to look at.
As for painting stuff, I haven't put brush to canvas yet! It's mid-semester, and I'm about to get there, I pinky promise! This weekend I shall view the videos that I couldn't view at school, and then I WILL (I actually will) practice. I have a nice medium-sized canvas in my room waiting for it to be destroyed :)
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