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July 26, 2018 at 1:48 am #459458
This page on Natural Pigments website pretty much covers it. They say you can use them “sparingly” (sort of vague) but I choose to leave them out totally.
https://www.naturalpigments.com/artist-materials/cat/medium-supplies-art/post/resin-mediums-damar-maroger/
[/URL]This is found near the end of the article.
What is the best practice for oil painting?
• Avoid use of resins, waxes and non-drying oils in paint (if used, use sparingly in small passages of the painting)
• Avoid use of pigments that inhibit drying (carbon blacks)
• Avoid medium rich layers in the painting
• Avoid using materials in paint or while painting that may deposit on the paint surface and remain behind, e.g. non-evaporating solvents, surfactants, plasticizers, etc.
• Apply paint with a sufficient amount of binder (oil) to envelope the solid particles in paint, e.g. pigments and extender pigments or fillers, to approximately achieve its critical pigment volume concentration (CPVC) and not in excess
• Use basic lead carbonate (lead white) as a replacement for titanium white (lead white provides oil paint with its greatest flexibility and resistance to water)
• Apply paint in a direct, solid manner, which is always better than multiple layers of variable binder-to-pigment proportions (the essence of the fat-over-lean principle).July 26, 2018 at 8:14 am #663310Good Info Contu. I haven’t used Damar since I was a teenager.
In the 70s Maroger was all the rage in the painting courses in college.
linseed and turps were my poison.Website: www.artderek.com
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https://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1431363July 27, 2018 at 1:44 am #663312We still have half a bottle of Grumbacher Damar Varnish that is probably 50 years old. I opened it up just to remember the smell of the 60s!
July 27, 2018 at 12:37 pm #663311My most amazing possession is a jar of Dorland’s wax medium I bought in the 1970s. It is like new and still usable.
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