Oil Media
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(Excerpts from ART HARDWARE: The Definitive Guide to Artists’ Materials, by Steven Saitzyk © 1987) MEDIAWhenever a paint is thinned it should always be thinned with a medium, of which the simplest form is a combination of thinner and drying oil. The amount of thinner used should be less than 50 percent of the recipe because there will always be sufficient drying oil replacing whatever might be washed away by the thinner. A medium is chosen not just to thin a paint, but also to alter its working characteristics, drying time, and final appearance. Resins, waxes, and driers are used as additives to basic thinner-drying oil media to make these changes. No matter what formula is used to create a medium, the principle of fat over lean should never be violated in its application. ("Fat" means a medium rich in oil and "lean" refers to a medium rich in thinner. A lean medium or paint mixture should never be applied over a fat one.) Most of the following recipes have been offered by artists who have had success using them. Some are from previously published literature to which I have made small changes, primarily to update them for currently available materials. I would like to thank all those who laid the groundwork for these recipes by their courageous experimentation with different materials on their own work. SIMPLE MEDIAINTERMEDIATE MEDIACOMPLEX MEDIACOMMERCIALLY PREPARED MEDIA(Excerpts from ART HARDWARE: The Definitive Guide to Artists’ Materials, by Steven Saitzyk © 1987)
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