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    jogen2
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        Hi, I have glazed part of a portrait with Langridge Glaze Medium and then worked into the glaze with light flesh colours. This usually works but this time has dried (after 3 weeks) to a high gloss finish that contrasts markedly with the rest of the painting. What can I do? Glaze the rest of the face to match? Thin the glaze with Gum Turpentine and glaze the whole painting? Finish over the top with matt varnish and hope that it will “tone down” the shine? Please let me know if anyone has had similar problems and what you tried! Thank you Jo

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        Gigalot
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            Wipe your glossy painting surface area with alcohol solution, 40% or 50%. That effectively reduce gloss. Net time use regular painting medium for glaze as it gives most attractive and silky sheen of pure dried linseed oil.

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            WFMartin
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                Hi, I have glazed part of a portrait with Langridge Glaze Medium and then worked into the glaze with light flesh colours. This usually works but this time has dried (after 3 weeks) to a high gloss finish that contrasts markedly with the rest of the painting. What can I do?

                Well, first it is necessary to understand just what your “glazing” process consists of. If you are improperly “thinning”, or “diluting” your paint with an abundance of medium, in a mistaken attempt to create “transparency”, you are probably employing way too much medium. And, in that case, that overuse of medium could be the cause of the gloss. On the other hand, if you are, in fact, spreading your medium out into a very, very thin layer that you can barely see, and applying paint into that, you are glazing properly.

                I have no idea what “Langridge Glaze Medium” consists of, in terms of its ingredients, and that is the reason I formulate my own painting medium by selecting my own specific ingredients. Not knowing of what this stuff is composed, that could be the cause of the undue gloss that you’re experiencing.

                If this required 3 weeks of drying time, you could be using an abundance of medium. Not sure, though.

                Glaze the rest of the face to match?

                No, I wouldn’t do that.

                Thin the glaze with Gum Turpentine and glaze the whole painting? Finish over the top with matt varnish and hope that it will “tone down” the shine? Please let me know if anyone has had similar problems and what you tried! Thank you Jo

                I’d ignore the gloss. Just finish the painting as you would normally, and once it has dried, oil out the surface by using a lint-free rag dipped in a mixture of one part Linseed Oil to 1 part Odorless Mineral Spirits. Rub it on generously to the surface of your dried painting. Allow it to remain on the surface for about 2 minutes, and then wipe off the excess using a dry rag of the same material. When you wipe off the excess, the previous glossy areas will be wiped quite free of the Linseed Oil, leaving the greater amounts to remain in the duller, more porous (usually darker) areas of the painting.

                Allow this applied oil to thoroughly dry. This in itself should “even out” the glossy and dull areas of the painting. Once that application had dried for about the same length of time that you would allow a final application of paint to dry, apply a suitable, synthetic resin varnish, either gloss, matte, or satin. By doing so, you are not, “hoping that it will tone down the shine”–It will even out the sheen, provided that your have performed an oiling-out operation prior to the application of varnish.

                Irregular “patches” or “areas” of glossiness, or dullness are quite normal, and routine, and are best handled by the application of a final varnish, rather than by attempting to accommodate the condition by either the selection, or modification of the painting medium. Painting mediums are meant to accomplish one thing, and that is to cause the paint to handle appropriately for the effect you are trying to achieve, and not for controlling “sheen”. If your goal is to control the sheen of your painted surface by somehow attempting to manipulate your painting medium (no matter what it may be), either by quantity, or by content, you are likely to be quite disappointed.

                The blotchiness of gloss, and dull areas of a final, painted surface are normal, common, and are best remedied by the application of a final varnish, for which YOU pick the sheen most appreciated by you.:)

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