Drying Oil Painting In The Sun

How to make your oil paintings dry quickly.

Drying oil painting in the sun.

One leave the painting to dry in a well ventilated open area where air circulates a fan helps. Also paint is slow to dry in a cold environment so a warm room is preferable. Add absorbent materials such as sawdust or cat litter to the paint if there is more than just a little left. 6 mix your paint with a solvent like turpentine or liquin.

When i start an oil painting i will usually thin the paint using odorless solvent so that it becomes a thin wash with a watercolor like consistency. However there is an important exception and that is when an old painting is suffering from discoloured or yellowing of the varnish layer. Pour some oil about an inch into a wide dish cover it with a propped up lid i e. Two paint using thin layers and washes which will dry reasonably quickly.

As you may have guessed from the prior answers drying an oil painting in the sun is the wrong thing to do. This will make your paintings dry in a day or two compared to a week. Since linseed oil dries faster than other kinds of oil mixing a little extra linseed oil with the paint on your palette can help speed the drying time of your painting. Use alkyd white instead of normal white to mix with your oil paints.

Buy some commercial paint hardener or dryer to dry paint in a hurry. I typically find this is not such a good method as the paint dries too. Combine linseed oil with the paint on your palette. Not direct sunlight due to fading and too much darkness will cause it to yellow.

Use an alkyd medium with your colors. In general i agree with what has been said so far its not a good idea to leave an oil painting in full sunlight for an extended period of time this will affect certain pigments. This layer of paint dries quickly within 24 hours. Sun thickened linseed oil is a created by exposing the oil to the sun to create a thick syrupy somewhat bleached oil with similar brushing qualities to stand oil.

The sun will take away the color. To speed up the drying time you can turn on a. Stir it periodically to hasten drying. After that i embrace the slow drying time of oil paint rather than try to avoid it.

Bugs will get stuck to it. Oil paintings need daylight. Avoid extreme heat like hairdryers as this will only make the process worse. This process is demonstrated in the painting below.