dry brushing with oils. Why/How?

[Josh Gray]

What is the advantage of dry brushing with oil paints?

Do you thin the paint? with what, how much?

What kind of brush do you use?

Any help would be great

[CSRZ28]

From Josh:

>What is the advantage of dry brushing with oil paints?
>
>Do you thin the paint? with what, how much?
>
>What kind of brush do you use?

After shaking the bottle to mix the paint, open and dip your brush into the
lid. Next, 'paint' a section of card stock. (thick paper or index cards work
fine)
The card will absorb almost all of the carrier, leaving just pigment to pick
up on the brush. Start another paint section next to the first, without
reloading your brush. You are trying to get as much of the paint off the brush.

When it looks like no paint is coming off the brush onto the card, lightly
brush over the area of your model you want highlighted. You may not see
anything until after the first three or four passes. That means you have just
about the right amount of pigment on the brush to do the job.
When it looks like no more will come off your brush, go back to the first
painted card section and add just enough thinner to pick up paint for the
second painted section and go again.
Brush choice depends on the area or details you are wanting touched up. I
have used 10/0s for small panel details.

Chuck Ryan
Springfield, OH

[Lee Coll]

The advantage of using artists oils to dry brush is that they do not dry out
as quickly as out of the bottle enamels or acrylics. This provides a
consistent application instead of little lumps of semi-dried paint on the
surface you're dry brushing.

I do not thin the oils. I use a chunk of teflon as a pallet and mix colors
on it. I use a filbert "mop" brush to apply. Before loading with a minimal
amount of paint, I condition the brush to make sure the bristles are soft by
dragging it across the palm of my hand to let it absorb some of the oils
there. After wiping most of the paint off of the brush on the pallet, I
also run it across my palm a few times before dry brushing on the model
surface.

Lee

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[Don Stauffer]

I drybrush with acrylics as much as oils/enamels.

One thing about drybrushing. It is not a completely seperate technique
from normal painting, it is merely an extreme.

One can paint with a brush very wet, very dry, or anything in between.
The effect is a continuous difference depending on exactly how 'wet' the
brush is. A very wet brush gives a glossy surface. If you paint flats
with a very wet brush, you get a semi-gloss. As you reduce the amount
of paint, the surface gets flatter and flatter. At even more extremes
the flat finish also becomes translucent/semitransparent, which is what
you want to do weathering, similar to a wash.

If you use gloss paint you can still get a rather matt finish with a dry
brush, but not as flat as when you start with flat paint.

One can dip bristles into paint, then dubb on cardboard or something to
dry the brush more. Or, you can dip the brush in paint, smudge some on
the cardboard, wipe brush clean, and pick up paint from the cardboard.

BTW, these same generalizations are also true with an airbrush. An
airbrush can put down a wet or a dry coat.

--
Don Stauffer in Minnesota
stau...@usfamily.net
webpage- http://www.usfamily.net/web/stauffer

[Josh Gray]

Thanks everyone. Looks like experementaion is the way to go.

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