04-07-2026, 06:23 PM
ButtercupSaiyan, thanks, I drew these designs 7 years ago and it was for fun mainly, didn't use them for anything.
Thanks for your feedback, I'm glad the latest painting has some sort of effect of it's own. The dimensions are 67 cm (height) and 55 cm (width). I enjoy using oil paints. I think it's a very versatile medium in terms of application. You can paint thick or thin, use glazing and scumbling. Oils allow to make nice blending/transitions. I have no issue with drying time, it's more of an advantage in my opinion, because I have time to make big changes hours after a painting session. So yeah, oils are great!
What do you mean when you say "invest" in linseed oil/gamsol/gamblin? Linseed oil acts as a binder in any type of oil paints. Gamsol is a trademark as well as Gamblin. If you want to thin your paints you can use different solvents . I use linseed oil because I like the consistency of the paint more as opposed to thinning with turpentine or white-spirit which makes them more like watercolor. I use turpentine to clean my pallete and brushes. Then I wash my brushes with soap and apply some hair wax on them to make them last a little longer. Sometimes I use a mixture of damar varnish, linseed oil and turpentine and apply it on a specific area on a painting in a thin layer. It freshens dried paint and helps with glazes. Works fine for me.
The storage isn't that sophisticated really. You can hang a painting on a wall if that's an option. If not, a rack is ok. Just make sure the humidity of the air is somewhat stable (60% is ok I think) because usually linen looses it's tension after some time due to changes in air humidity/temperature. I don't use ready made canvases you can buy in art stores. So maybe they behave a little bit differently. Linen is not that static if air conditions/temperature are changing.
Thanks for your feedback, I'm glad the latest painting has some sort of effect of it's own. The dimensions are 67 cm (height) and 55 cm (width). I enjoy using oil paints. I think it's a very versatile medium in terms of application. You can paint thick or thin, use glazing and scumbling. Oils allow to make nice blending/transitions. I have no issue with drying time, it's more of an advantage in my opinion, because I have time to make big changes hours after a painting session. So yeah, oils are great!
What do you mean when you say "invest" in linseed oil/gamsol/gamblin? Linseed oil acts as a binder in any type of oil paints. Gamsol is a trademark as well as Gamblin. If you want to thin your paints you can use different solvents . I use linseed oil because I like the consistency of the paint more as opposed to thinning with turpentine or white-spirit which makes them more like watercolor. I use turpentine to clean my pallete and brushes. Then I wash my brushes with soap and apply some hair wax on them to make them last a little longer. Sometimes I use a mixture of damar varnish, linseed oil and turpentine and apply it on a specific area on a painting in a thin layer. It freshens dried paint and helps with glazes. Works fine for me.
The storage isn't that sophisticated really. You can hang a painting on a wall if that's an option. If not, a rack is ok. Just make sure the humidity of the air is somewhat stable (60% is ok I think) because usually linen looses it's tension after some time due to changes in air humidity/temperature. I don't use ready made canvases you can buy in art stores. So maybe they behave a little bit differently. Linen is not that static if air conditions/temperature are changing.