Mastering Oil Painting: How To Choose The Right Drying Oils 

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There are a wide variety of vegetable oils that may be used in fine art. However, none surpass the drying and physical properties of linseed oil.

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The presence of free fatty acids in cold-pressed oil can actually hasten drying. The so-called mucilage is a mixture of many different substances, The substance that hinders drying are a class of anti-oxidants that are typically removed through a series of processes performed for modern, refined oil. Washing oil is one of these steps, but others are necessary to remove anti-oxidants, waxes, chromophores, etc. Keep in mind that when exposing oil to light and air causes the formation of glycerides and oxidatively polymerized oil. Chromophores and the presence of oxidized oil increases the potential of yellowing, even though the oil may appear lighter.

For fsater drying do not use walnut oil. Use our aged, refined linseed oil for best overall results.

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It is possible-we have observed this with titanium white in alkyd.

I would be interested in the article you refer to because it does not correlate with the studies we have seen. Bodied oils tend to yellow less than non-bodied oils because there are fewer reactive sites for oxidative polymerization.

@@RublevColours I could only find the article i have read on cracking in regards to acrylic grounds which doesn't really relate on justpaint org Unfortunately the bending test i referred to I could not find anymore, its been a year or two. But i remember it showing a noticeable reduction in cracking with zinc-titanium combinations. It might just be me confusing paint film strength with flexibility when in reality the term includes more parameters like hardness etc. Which is why the thought popped up if there is a difference better or worse.

Oleogel has simple ingredients, but the process of making it is complicated.

Lead white (basic lead carbonate) is not a primary drier, and it is not used as a drier in oil paint. It can dry fast with the right drying oil, but typically it does not dry fast. Lead oxide or litharge is used as a drier in oil, but it is not a primary drier but rather a secondary or through drier.

Basic lead carbonate AKA lead white is a well drying pigment, but I'd say perhaps only fraction on the faster side of medium/average speed. Though lead, nowhere nearly as reactive as various lead driers. These can sometimes already be present in some productions of lead white, but are usually added after the fact. Winsor & Newton, (and I imagine others,) used to add lead driers to their lead whites. (Remembering W&N don't make lead whites anymore.) In more recent decades only adding these lead driers to their lead pigments and other driers to non lead pigments. They already had to put lead warnings on their lead colours, so one imagines no loss to put in the lead driers in these. If they put those same driers in other colours then they'd have to put warnings on those as well. So naturally they didn't. Though I can't speak for colours made in the first half of the last century.

@@RublevColours what do you mean by primary vs secondary drier? I know lead carbonate is used as a drier in at least one old formula. But not sure how common. Doesn’t seem like it was very common.

I have experienced that lead white dries much, much faster than most all other pigments I have, not quite as fast as my cobalt teal walnut oil paint, but close.

@@erxfav3197 Primary driers are those that dry catalytically top down, whereas secondary or 'through driers' induce polymerization throughout the paint film. There are some old formulas with lead white as one of the driers, but these were not consdiered driers.

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