Thanks for the video. It was an eye opener for me. I was frantically searching for a meterial that would expedite the drying of my oil paintings. But hey, I have given up that idea altogether after hearing you out. I have learnt that that is the way it is... if you have to stick with oil painting then rather learn to live with its natural charecteristics. Now I have peace of mind. Thank you once again for enlightening me.

Been getting back into oil painting in a more focused, dedicated way in the last few years. I like to do multiple layers and glazes all throughout the painting, so it's important for my layers to dry quickly. Started out with liquin but soon found that it dried TOO quickly. After 4 or 6 hours of working it would start to tack up, and my colors would become gummy and unworkable. I wanted the speedy drying time, but I also needed a prolonged working time, as my painting sessions are usually all day. Like 8 to 12 hours, or more. So that was my frustration, I wanted to paint all day without the paint crapping up on me AND I wanted that fast drying time so I could layer and glaze in the next day or two. Then I got turned onto neo megilp, by gamblin. And holy crap do I love this stuff. With just a little bit on the brush as you paint, you get a drying time that's super close to liquin, maybe a touch longer, but you can work all day. No tacking up, no gumminess. Best medium I've come across!

I tend to paint in very thin layers and as a self taught artist I first used Liquin as I was a little scared of traditional mediums and how to use them. I have since tried them, but always seem to deviate back to Liquin as it suits my style the best. Thank you for sharing your knowledge 😊.

I am glad you mentioned about Mark Carder, he is a great artist. Like Florent, he also gives free lessons and demonstrations and shares his knowledge about oil painting. Fortunately there are people like Florent Farges and Mark Carder, I owe you so much. Thank you very much for everything you do! By the way I can’t stand Liquin’s scent. It makes me feel sick and gives me a headache. You should be very careful when using it, it’s so toxic.

I am so glad that I have found your channel. Your content is very informative and pleasant to watch, not even mentioning how beautiful your paintings are! Keep on going with your great job.

Thank you! I've been waiting for a video like this for a while!

Thank you for these, it's really a great help for almost 1week I was keep on searching how would I know the difference of each solutions. This vids/discussion is so nice that you might feel that you are attending a lecture. Thank you so much on this. hope you'll not going to stop sharing your knowledge to everyone. God bless you.

Yay Liquin! Mind you, I hardly use it these days owing to the (earth) colours I use dry rather quickly. If I want slower and fatter layers I use Art Spectrum Medium 3 (stand oil, refined linseed oil, damar and gum turpentine.) I prefer that my layers are dry by the next day so I can work again and keep a regular (fast) output from the studio.

obrigado...os seus vídeos são fabulosos! É um excelente artista... Deus o abençoe...

That was very helpful and clearly explained.

Thank you for these lessons 💕

Very helpful. Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge.

such a nice person, and helpful.

I always thought that having more than one painting going at a time would make it easier to allow dry time while you work on the other painting. I suppose many people do that too.

I work In many many layers, so fast drying mixing products you suggested are exactly what I need!

thank you for mentioning fast and slow drying colours i noticed that but nobody talked about it on youtube

I love oil painting

thank you for the enlightenment. Good info

Again excellent explanation

Good video. Good info. about the different dying rates of paints. Wish I would have watched this before I started painting my tree.

Thanks for the information.

j'aime bien tes vids.. il sont cool.. je suis ici en (NYC) heureux d'avoir trouver votre canal. Continue!

Thanks very helpful😊

Thank you very good information

Very good video, thanks so much.

Thank you so much

very helpful thanks

Great video, I've learnt aa great deal from (all) them. 👌🖼🎨

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO!! You could say I'm a noob with oil paints. My dark cobalt violet hadn't dried after a whole day so I was starting to think I mixed in too much oil! 😅🙌

thanks for the tips.They are helpful.just like to know if sunlight can help fast dry a finished painting that is drying slowly because of linseed oil usage.

Very good !

Great help for me to hear at this time. I am noticing slower dry time on my canvas right now. Most background colors are reds, but the area showing wetness has ultra marine blue mixed with reds with a touch of veridian. I rarely use mediums but thought I would try using cold pressed linseed oil (Windsor Newton) mixed into my oil colors. I think I did 2 parts paint 1 part oil, no thinner. I wanted a really smooth surface.....and that I got. .....just uneven dry after 1 day. I will see what happens after 5 days. You mentioned about issues coming up if using too much oil. What are the issues?

My approach. Plan, Organize and execute, planning the painting is what (subject matter), do I need slow or fast or even medium drying time and through what stages of the painting do I want to apply what type of drying medium if any and keep in mind Fat over Lean. Don't get in a rush or rut, there is so much to remember but over time and experience everything comes together. Thanks for the reminder Florent, as always great video.

Some time is five days? I realized I got oil instead of acrylic paints. I painted without medium. Will my painting ever dry?

@aleezatariq8598

5 жыл бұрын

I also bought oils instead of acrylic and I realised I had oil paints after I did my abstract painting!!!! So I kept my drawing in a freezer let's see how it goes

@pussydestroyersora4892

5 жыл бұрын

Everything Liatastic how did it go?

@emanuelaalvares5172

5 жыл бұрын

PL J upaintyng: traducibile in italiano

@DANI-tn7lg

5 жыл бұрын

@@aleezatariq8598 how did it go?

@megarycesz9562

4 жыл бұрын

@@DANI-tn7lg the fridge exploded because of the chemicals that were in the paint. Those chemical with low temperature can cause some weird reaction that caused an instant overheat and it exploded after about 5-7 minutes with radius 20 meters burning everything around. The power was also 3x because the whole electric system got on fire. Unforthnately Liatastic died. Im saying this with broken heart as one of friends.. May Liatastic rest in peace (*) 💔

Thanks

This was super interesting, personally I prefer fast drying, I've tried linseed oil before and didn't get on with it at all, nowadays I just use 2 types of Liquin or no medium at all. Out of interest how do you go about cleaning your brushes?

Thnx! What, in your experience, is the fastest drying alkyd medium? I'm trying Griffin alkyd, and I like the drying time. But the pigment load is not the best. I think it is student quality. So I'm thinking of mixing my own 'alkyd paints'...

Thank you sooo much What happens if I draw thick sticky paint on a layer that is not completely dried? Will the upper layer be cracked if lower layer contains less galkyd? Need help

Yup i love oil

Thank you for that inf

I think using a fast dry medium along with turpentine on your block in is best. after that you can just use linseed oil and then towards the very end straight paint as you get thicker. This is the system I’m using what are your thoughts?

THANKS

Alright, I've used the slow drying medium and that worked great! But now that my customer has seen the painting he wants it NOW for his office wall. So whats to be done so I can deliver it to him? What's to be done to expedite the drying time?

What is your opinion on black oil/dark drying oil?

Is it true if you use a fast dry medium for your block in and then come back to your painting when it is dry to the touch, that it is essential to use linseed oil for the remainder of the painting to avoid cracking later in the life is the painting?

On the speed of pigments is there also a gloss result for unaltered simple oil and pigment quality paint based on color? I want medium gloss without varnishing. I suspect slow drying pigments will be more glossy and fast drying matt . I could experiment but maybe you know?

Could you please advice me how I could remove excessive oil medium on the painting. It dried unevenly. Glossy in some places. I am unable to paint over it. Please to hear from you. Thanks.

To be honest I find the old Meyer recipe to be just wonderful: 4 parts distilled English turpentine, 1 part stand oil, 1 part Damar varnish, and a few drops of cobalt drier. This is good for any type of painting application you may want to use. And it also works extremely well for glazing.

@lenapetrikova424

Жыл бұрын

Damar varnish causes the image to yellow after years, as I know.

I was wondering do you happen to know how to make your own diy Matt medium oil base ?

Can you paint on top of the first layer.

I actually recently read that some of the additives/impurities/gummy stuff in things like turpentine actually do slightly lower drying time

What can I put in burnt umber to slow the dry process? Right now I’m using clove oil and it’s OK ….I’m not sure how much to put in it . Sometimes I put down two drops per pile on the pallet seems to be OK. But is there something better.

I used linseed oil to thin out my oil and help cover a larger area on my paper. as you said linseed oil takes a long time to dry, but that's not what I want it for. If I use my Terpenoid (my brush cleaner) Will it still give me my desired thinning effect, but will dry faster?

@MrKongatthegates

8 ай бұрын

Yes much faster

nice ....but I have one question could we use acrylic colors as primary before we paint by oil ??

@madjidchouarbi3921

5 жыл бұрын

Adraa Artist yes you can. I personnaly use acrylic for my underpainting, especially when painting portrait. But , because I don't know the influence of acrilic medium, I only delay my acrylic with water. I also wait a couple of days before covering my underpainting with oil, this to be sure it's completly dry and won't influence the over layers. In fact, making an acrylic underpainting is a common practice for most of modern professionnal painter. It offer many advantages : 1st, acrylic protect the surface of your canva from the acidity of oil. 2nd, acrylic underpainting make your paint dry faster. It's just similar to tempera underpainting used by old masters, but, with modern painting. I hope my explainations will help you.

i hope someone can help me, my oil paint dries sooo fast what's the problem?

Thank you!!!

You list cadmiums as being slow drying. But aren't cadmium HUES a different formula without actual toxic cadmium? Or do they still dry slow?

This is strange, because other websites argue oil paint takes up to 4-6 hours to dry (by default). Perhaps what they mean is "If you want to dry oil enough so another layer above it won't impact the lower layer, wait 4-6 hours.

When I tried to research everything came up saying it takes 6 months for painting to dry, to wait that long to varnish and frame....?

@thegreaterconundrum

4 жыл бұрын

Yes. The surface will more or less dry in a week (it wont smear or appear glossy), but for it to fully "dry" down to the canvas (for all of the Polymerization to happen aka paint hardening/bonding) it can take up to a few months.

Can I use water mixable oils and regular oils mixed with gamasol in one painting?

@richiejourney1840

3 жыл бұрын

Marylou Niebrugge yes

If you want to slow down the drying of paint just add sennelier natural non toxic medium for fast drying. It will stay wet for weeks I don't know why lol.

@loati94

3 жыл бұрын

I have it. It says it is fast drying and it makes my oil dry slower than linseed. Maybe they should have tested it before naming it or something. Mine is the non toxic thinner, I tried using it as gamsol to do the under painting, it didn't work

I am obsessed with your videos. They are so informative, and without them it probably would have taken me years to work all of this out on my own. Thank you so much @yorkeybeeart

Thank you. I have an old oil painting I never finished. I'm ready to finish the painting, so how should I prepare the existing oil paint on the canvas before I begin painting on it?

@LeoPlaw

5 жыл бұрын

There's nothing to prepare, other than clean off any dust that might have settled on the painting.

@FlorentFargesarts

5 жыл бұрын

Leo Plaw is right. Nothing to prepare really. What you can do is get rid of the dust with a dry house painting brush. It works well.

@LeoPlaw

5 жыл бұрын

@@FlorentFargesarts they should still be mindful of the fat over lean rule, wouldn't you agree?

@richiejourney1840

3 жыл бұрын

Benjamin T. Brenner its over rated if you don’t care about the longevity of your painting down the road.

Thank you for this very informative video. I have an area of a painting that I need dried quicker- it has been drying for 2 days now and I did not use any mediums- my mistake! I need to do something with that area and I need it dry. If I gently brushed a drying medium over the area, might it dry quicker? The paint is quite wet. Thanks so much.

@KweenTAC

4 жыл бұрын

I was wondering the same thing. Shame no one replied

Been using pallet knife and five days later still really wet ????

Question for anyone ..... HELP .... If I'm using a fast drying medium like Walnut Alkyd Oil, it will make each layer dry faster than the next layer of paint on top of it, so it appears that I don't need to comply to the fat over lean since the paint underneath the new paint is more dry??? Is that correct logic or am I wrong? I need to know right away so I can get started on a commission. I'm switching from acrylics to oils to get more open wet paint time.

Can you let an oil painting dry vertically? Or does it have to be on a horizontale surface?

@thegreaterconundrum

4 жыл бұрын

Don't lay down a wet or dry painting horizontally. This makes it easier for dust to fall on the surface. Very hard to get off once dry. Let it dry vertically.

So why would you use oil to slow things down in wet on wet? Wouldn’t that lead to mud making? I’m a beginner so I’m learning

@thegreaterconundrum

4 жыл бұрын

It takes practice. You should not be blending colors too much so that it mixes together.

Nice video but i think dou forgot to mention the Rule: “Fad over lean“ + the explination of it.

When things don't "dry" by loss of moisture but through chemical process it is generally call "curing". Epoxy is similar to oil paint in that it cures through a chemical process. Unlike oil paint that uses oxygen, heat drives the chemical reaction in most types of epoxy. I've used a urethane based paint before that cures by exposure to moisture in the air. Once you open the can the curing process starts. You can slow it by limiting the time the can is open between uses but within a few weeks to months it will be unusable.

I'm hesitant to use alkyds or any dryer that we don't know the archival aspect of. So many new things are available that haven't had 500 or even 100 years to show us how they do over time. Better to have more than one painting going at a time, or use the natural tendencies of known pigments, oils, or siccatives... I have no problem being patient. There's always a sketch to do as study for an upcoming painting, or something else to work on. And yes Mark Carder is very worth watching.

You should have put in the description all the products that you were showing in the video because they are small on the screen and it's not clear what exactly these products were

I ended up watching mark carder for a lot of hours. Not quite on the page on which I am.....however excellent excellent foundational advice. A lot of my questions got answered. Mediums remain biggest bugga boo. I won’t use turpentine. I need slow drying with some gloss after dry. Sounds simple....it’s not! Ha ha. I’m not committed to the clove oil deal at all (except as a brush dip) Maybe walnut or poppy seed oil solo? I like slower drying rate you know and that means different proportions of medium per color so mix as you go....I want to use as little oil as possible....maybe use whatever oil the product uses. I only get pigment and an oil anymore....does someone know an answer to what I consider a simple question. I have failed miserably and I do tend to learn a lot failing but on this I just need my solution. I have some kind of learning issues I cannot define....mainly hands on and I’m good.

Does oil paint cure faster with heat ? I don’t know much about paint

@Newbornnurseryreborn

8 ай бұрын

Im just really curious if the oil paints dry faster from heat ??

@FlorentFargesarts

8 ай бұрын

Absolutely, it does: it makes quite a difference actually! You can use this at your advantage if you want paint to dry slowly, paint in a cold room and if you need quick curing put your painting next to a heating source.

no matter what i do the paint never "drys" there is always a spot where it easily comes off i wish it dryed evenly no matter how long i wait or how normal temperature the house is

I've tried acrylics but they dry too fast. And oils dry too slow. I wouldn't mind but I have inquisitive cats and no safe place with a door to put the painting.

@loati94

3 жыл бұрын

There's mediums to slow acrylics drying time a little bit.

I fucking painted my room and didn’t know it was oil paint and it’s been a week and like 2 days and it smells and still makes my head hurt

😘😘

Omg oil painting seems complicated, I think I'll stick to acrylics and possibly try painting over with oils

@janX9

5 жыл бұрын

I'm an amateur however I do acrylic and oil painting and I find that neither of them are really too complicated. Bear in mind I use a wet on wet technique. I have had no problems with the fact that oil painting takes a long time to dry. Conversely, I have no problems with acrylics drying quickly depending on how quickly I want to do a painting I may add a slow drying medium to my acrylics. Then why watch this video you ask? Curiosity. I left a bunch of paints on my palette for the past week or two without cleaning it oops! And some paints were drier than others. Man I have a mess on my hands LMFAO

@cameronkrause4712

3 жыл бұрын

I have found that starting with acrylics and then painting over with oils works very well.

Name's Bond, Chemical Bonds.

Is this the guy from the draw scope ad?😂

i rather use the little acrylic and satin basic paints lol

So I used oil paint on my rock instead of acrylic by accident and I want to know how long this sucker will take to dry. Also it was a bitch to clean up after...

You are too cute 😻

Oil paint is too slow a medium to use, it is obsolete medium

adverts are annoying.

@marr222

5 жыл бұрын

Murder Ballad Maybe you should leave

@henrytjernlund

3 жыл бұрын

Marr, why should she leave? Because she's a woman? That's not a good reason.

cute guy

Oil paint sucks fucking ass it doesn't wash off my hands and it takes like 5 years to dry and its still a little moist

Watching video on speed x2 so I guess oil painting is not for me LOL

There are several inaccuracies in this video. Best advice is to do your own homework.

@BetinaLundkaerJensenartist

5 жыл бұрын

Like what inaccuracies?

@janX9

5 жыл бұрын

Please explain.