oil-paint faster drying time, Help!!

[milz]

Hi,

can anybody help me with a real good mix to speed up the drying time of
oil paints. I need to do some oil sketches and need a mix which gets the
drying time
down to six hours or even less. I heard that some matte painters have
real fast drying "secret" mixtures. Anybody knows a good one?

thanks for all the help
--Eckhardt

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[Brother Alphabet]

On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, milz wrote:

> can anybody help me with a real good mix to speed up the drying time of
> oil paints.

What's that semi-synthetic oil medium called? Er...I hate when I draw a
blank...Alkyds?

Or additives like liquin thin the paint out and contain agents which
evaporate more quickly...

Or, you could buy some oilbars and use them with solvents for sketching...

These are only things I've heard...I get headaches from oil fumes...So I'm
an H.2.O painter.

Hutto

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[mdeli]

On Thu, 19 Feb 1998 19:49:12 +0100, milz <nospa...@algonet.se>
wrote:

>Hi,

>
>can anybody help me with a real good mix to speed up the drying time of

>oil paints. I need to do some oil sketches and need a mix which gets the
>drying time
>down to six hours or even less. I heard that some matte painters have
>real fast drying "secret" mixtures. Anybody knows a good one?
>
>thanks for all the help
>--Eckhardt
>
>

cobolt drier or any other. Test it out first. Don't use too much or it
will turn your brushes to nails.
MD

[sch...@lookingglass.net]

> can anybody help me with a real good mix to speed up the drying time of
> oil paints.

Since your email indicates a Swedish address, I'll refer
you to the British product made by Winsor and Newton
called LIQUIN. It can be used by itself as a medium or
mixed with the usual artist's mediums (thinner, linseed,
or poppyseed, etc.). Another excellent drier that works
well with the thinner/linseed/damar medium is Cobalt Drier.
It is used VERY sparingly -- a drop or two is usually
sufficient. You are probably already aware that these driers
increase the chances that your oil paint will crack, especially
if you paint heavily when sketching. I use these driers when
doing plein air painting because I can continue working right
on through the day on the same work -- the morning's effort
having dried sufficiently by afternoon to allow overpainting.
But I also paint thinly rather than thickly which makes a
difference in drying times too. Good luck, T'bird.

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[Oliver Loveday]

milz wrote:
>
> Hi,

>
> can anybody help me with a real good mix to speed up the drying time of
> oil paints.

Speeding up the drying time of oil paint reduces the archivability of
the painting. If that isn't a concern, then there are several solutions.
One is to work on paper, thin the oil with turpentine (which is what one
does while sketching with oil anyway) and then expose the work to a hear
source such as heat lamp, radiator, or sunlight. The paper absorbs some
of the oil medium and the turpentine evaporates fairly fast.
If you are painting on treated canvas, there are several additives that
will speed up the drying time, and cobolt dryer is in all of them. To
get it down to 6 hours on canvas, the paint will probably fall off the
canvas in a year, so enjoy it while it lasts.
Peace,
Oliver!