Mediums for Oil Paint

As a paint additive, mediums serve several different functions in oil painting. Adding a medium to paint can extend its volume as well as extending its drying time.   By changing the viscosity of paint, a medium also changes how the paint flows out onto the substrate. (Viscosity is the measure of friction as one layer […] The post Mediums for Oil Paint appeared first on Supply55 Blog.

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Go Coreless!

NEPATA UA770 30″ CORELESS REWINDER  The NEPATA UA770 Coreless is a 30″ high performance rewinder engineered to support rewinds with or without a paper core.  Engineered and manufactured in Germany to the highest quality standards, the NEPATA UA770 Coreless yields precise, accurate rewinds and crosscuts across a wide range of flexible media without a paper […] The post Go Coreless! appeared first on Supply55 Blog.

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Making Oil Paint

While the famous Dutch painter Jan Van Eyck is often credited with the invention of oil paint, pigments mixed with an oily resin have been used since the days when Neanderthals decorated their cave walls.  It is highly unlikely that prehistoric man used linseed oil in these primitive mixtures. Through the centuries the ancients experimented, […] The post Making Oil Paint appeared first on Supply55 Blog.

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Acrylic Glazes

Glazes have been around since the days of the Renaissance oil painters. These painters developed the technique of painting a monochromatic underpainting. Over that painting, they would apply glazes, which are very thin layers of transparent color. Imagine that the glaze is a colored film that you apply over a black and white photograph. The […] The post Acrylic Glazes appeared first on Supply55 Blog.

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Acrylic Mediums & Additives

Learn about the variety of mediums, gels and additives that expand the performance characteristics and physical properties of acrylic paint. To change the characteristics of how an acrylic paint performs you can use a medium. Most often retarding mediums and slow drying mediums are used to slow the rate at which the paint dries, so […] The post Acrylic Mediums & Additives appeared first on Supply55 Blog.

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Why Paint Wrinkles

Haste makes waste. I should know that by now. But in my rush to get out of the house, I laid the paint on just a little too thick. When I returned from a week long trip, I discovered that what had been a smooth finish had developed wrinkles.   In this article I will […] The post Why Paint Wrinkles appeared first on Supply55 Blog.

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