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Tuesday
Mar132012

A Recipe for the BEST Oil Painting Medium

DateTuesday, March 13, 2012 at 7:37PM

Photo by D. Chaskin

Those of us who paint in oils always need medium for thinning our paints. The pre-manufactured mediums work well--but they’re expensive and you can’t recycle them. I mix my own medium with 1 part refined linseed oil + 1 part stand oil + 1 part damar varnish + 3 parts odorless turp (or odorless mineral spirits or odorless paint thinner). I store this medium in glass jars. At the end of each painting session, I pour my dirty medium into a large can. Within a couple of days--all of the paint sinks to the bottom. I pour off the clean medium into my glass jar and keep using it over and over again. Works like a charm! And...it’s cost effective and environment friendly.

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