Oil painting guide: Choose the right oil to make your painting better
The use of oil in oil painting is a science. Today, let's talk about how to use oil correctly to improve your painting skills.
Reasons for using oil:
Solve the speed and drying problems, make your paintings dry faster or slower, and meet different needs.
Keep the color bright and make your work more vivid.
Oil use rules:
The principle of fat covering thin: that is, fat at the back and thin at the front, so that a solid whole can be formed between the
color layers.
Control the time by using oil, and choose the right oil according to the drying speed of the oil.
Classification of oil:
Quick-drying oil: white essential oil, turpentine, thinner, etc., which dry quickly and are suitable for fast painting.
Drying oil: Terrence 007, 084, 085, Likun glossy colloid medium, etc., suitable for outdoor landscape sketching.
Slow-drying oil: cooked linseed oil-Terence 026 (reddish color, suitable for dark areas), linseed oil-Terence 025 (firm conjunctiva), etc.
Medium-drying oil: walnut oil, between linseed oil and slow-drying oil, the firmness of the conjunctiva is weaker than linseed oil, but the wet time is longer than linseed oil.
Slowest drying oil: safflower oil, popy oil, Lucas 2222, etc., although the conjunctiva is not firm, but the drying speed is the
slowest.
Lazy oil "white henp flower" working principle:
White essential oil: dilution, balance the fat and thinness of multi-layer painting method.
Linseed oil: neutralize the characteristics of safflower oil's weak conjunctiva.
Safflower oil: neutralize the characteristics of white essential oil's fast drying speed.
Master these oil-using techniques to make your oil paintings more outstanding
