I gotta try walnut oil and walnut oil gel. I can not stand the smell of terpentine and i wanna paint solvence-free so i think this is a good selution for my problems 👍🏾👋🏾🖐🏾😊 thank you for this review of walnut oil and walnut oil gel. I was spending weeks finding a video like this and now i found you,re video thank you. Do you need both? I am super New at oil painting and mediums and were do i despose my rags whit walnut oil? I have so many question,s about oil painting and mediums and clean up and brush cleaning. I wanna paint solvence-free and the gamblin solvent free mediums are super expensive. I hope this helps me whit my oil painting and whit saving some money thanks again for posting this video
Walnut oil is a great clean alternative. No you don’t need both. I toss my paper towels into a plastic water filled waste basket. Once full I take it to the outside trash to be picked up. I clean my brushes with Murphy oil soap. Works great. Also just a little note. I don’t use much medium at all. Mostly just straight oil paint! Thanks for watching 🙏🏻👩🏼🎨🎨
Shelly J Cox- artist thank you. This walnut gel saved me. I thought i would never be able too oil paint. Luckaly i found you,re video on time cause i just wanted to give up on painting whit oil paint. I can not thank you enough for this thank you so mutch👍🏾👋🏾🖐🏾😄
This is from M. Graham…Don't buy walnut oil from a grocery store because it is refined differently and will not dry correctly…but I also read its ok if the grocery store brand doesn’t have any additives. Happy painting 👩🏼🎨
@@ShellyJCoxArtist thank, was thinking about the exact thing; i assumed food grade oil is more pure than technical oil, this was my assumption; no additives are written on the label 100% wallnut oil. i have tried it and seems to be drying ok. a bit more slow than linseed; and smells great:)
Thank you, very informative. I use walnut oil since 2 years. I like the fact that it doesnt dry fast so the paint stays open to blend. And I don‘t want to work with the toxic turpentine/OMS. The only big problem is that I have to store my paintings in the dark. The walnut oil yellows badly, all oils do to an extent
Hi Emily. I’ll have to do some research into the Walnut oils longevity but I haven’t noticed any yellowing… yet. My paintings end up fairly dark though so maybe that’s why I haven’t noticed. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻😀
My big problem with yellowing is with titanium white - not the mediums! When did turpentine become toxic? Miss the smell of the woods! Flake White gets even whiter with sunshine, darker in the dark!
Hello Shelly, Great informative video. I was wondering what type or brand do you use with the walnut oil/gel? Do you use regular oil paint over walnut oil paint from M. Graham? Once again great video.
I applaud you for being aware of safety issues, but in order to get a reaction of combustion from a rag, you need to nearly soak it with oil, crumple it up, and then bury it in other rags to keep the heat building. THAT is considered improper disposal. The word for the consistency of walnut gel you are looking for is "Thixotropic", meaning it holds its shape, but is also malleable.
Hi Roger! Thanks for watching. 🙏🏻Walnut oil is my fav for sure. Just remember to be mindful about disposing any paper towels/ cloths that you wipe it onto. 👩🏼🎨🎨
Hi!!! Thanks so much for all the info and tips! I'm about to start oil painting and I have already prepped my gesso board. I actually wanted to buy walnut oil but I've read that it could burn the rag on its own. Do I have to put water in the metal container all the time? I live in a tiny studio and I don't have good vents, so is walnut oil gel good in this situation? Also, is it safe to put the walnut oil gel tube in the fridge together with food? Thanks so much. I really wanted to start oil painting but these technicalities are the ones that hold me back. 😢
Hi. You can use the walnut oil gel without putting into the fridge. It stays wet a really long time out on the palette. If you have a metal waste basket, keeping water in it will insure no combustion issues. I recently had a chemist tell me it is very difficult for the walnut oil rags to combust. I’ve been using it for many years with no problems 👩🏼🎨. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻🎨
Hi Sapphire. I haven’t tried that yet. I did see that Rublev offers some really interesting additives like marble dust. One of these days I will give it a try! 👩🏼🎨😀🎨
thank you . well done. how do you handle areas that sinked in? are there specific recipes for oiling out when you paint with walnut oil? the recipes with linseed oil propably ''bite'' with the walnut oil , don't they?
First thank you for watching. To avoid sinking in I paint on oil primed wood panels and in a pinch oil primed canvas. I really can’t remember the last time I had this problem. So as far as oiling out, I would only use the walnut oil sparingly. I see no need to mix the two oils. 🙏🏻👩🏼🎨
thank you for your help💟 . thats interesting... think my ground doesnt suck much oil, so maybe it's happening because i use some earth pigments. 🧑🍳🐾 @@ShellyJCoxArtist
Very interesting. Do you use the Walnut gel to glaze all the way through and does it help the oil paints dry faster? What are the different uses of cold pressed vs. refined walnut oil? Thanks for this video :)
Hi Heather. The walnut oils will slow the drying. I really like this for prolonging the work time of my underpaintings. You may use walnut oil gel to glaze. I use M Graham Walnut oil and Rublev for gel. Not sure about cold pressed. I know with olive oil that is more pure. Thanks for your questions! 😀🙏🏻👩🏼🎨
Thank you for a very informative video. I have a questions. I had bought M Graham's Walnut Alkyd, thinking the oil and Alkyd were the same. I am new to this. I had planned to clean my brushes in Walnut oil. Can I do that with the Walnut oil Alkyd??? Also, is there a less combustible oil I could use for brush cleaning or thinning? What would you recommend. You also said you fill a plastic bucket with water and place the rags in there as you go along. Do you then store them in an air tight container for pitching into the garbage. I was a little confused on your process. Thank you.
Hi Anne. First thanks for watching. The Walnut Alkyd isn’t great for cleaning. I recommend Murphy’s Oil Soap for cleaning. I received a comment from a scientist regarding the combustibility of the Walnut oil. He said it would take a large amount of waste rags/ paper towels to combust. I keep my waste towels in my garbage can filled with water. When it’s full, I place in plastic garbage bag and throw out into my outdoors garbage can … usually on garbage pick up day. I’ve been using Walnut oil for many years now and will continue to use it. 🙏🏻👩🏼🎨🎨
I dindt get my walnut oil from amazone but i did get my money back for not reciving the walnut oil. I don,t know were i can buy walnut oil in the netherlands 😭 you,re walnut oil is not in stores in the netherlands were i go and i don,t have an art store in my area. I have to go to the big city for an art store. What should i do now? I realy wanna oil paint but i don,t wanna use terpentine. I can not get the walnut gel. I don,t have pay pal to pay for the. walnut oil gel. I realy wanna try it😭
You can also use Linseed oil. If you want a more lean option you might try Gamsol which is an order less mineral spirit. Just keep it in a jar with a good fitting lid so you can keep it covered when not using it. Hope this helps 👩🏼🎨
Shelly J Cox. They don,t sell it in stores in the netherlands. And i,ve i buy it from amazone i am afraid that they cancel my order or say the same thing as they did for my walnut oil alkyd medium,don,t diliver the painting medium and give me my money back instead of me recifing my painting medium
Hello Shelly J Cox. My linseed oil that i ordered from alliexpress came yesterday. I painted whit it today and i love it. Thank you so mutch for reccomending the lindseed oil👍🏾👋🏾😁
The short answer is yes, however, the process for refining both linseed oil and walnut oil varies from that of cooking oils in that there can be an extra "pressing" phase that removes some fats which might yellow faster. This also might cause cooking oils to go rancid faster, thus the need to refrigerate unused portions. The refinement process of artist oils is started with acid washes, under pressure at temperature. This removes mucilage, a gummy substance, by linking phospholipids to them and hydrating them both to the surface of the boil. These part of the oil are undesirable and can cloud the mixture and in some cooking oils are not removed. Depending on what IS removed from a cooking oil, that oil might become a nondrying oil, which would definitely be a deal breaker as it would certainly rot in the long term. It is worth the money to just go with art grade oils when painting. Dealing with cooking oils is a bit like dealing with a medium like egg tempera, it can be beautiful, but even after you finish, it is going to need special care, because there is a higher chance it can provide food for airborne mold and fungus if the humidity is high.
Regarding Walnut oil. i have M.Graham walnut oil but it lost viscosity and has become almost gel like and very sticky and tacky, not enabling me to get a nice flow on my oil paints. Any recommendations to get the walnut oil back into a better flow state?
Oh no Romel. I’ve never had this happen. I’m not sure if you can get the Walnut oil to its previous state. I’ve read that leaving the walnut oil in sunlight can thicken it. Maybe best just to get a new bottle and keep it in a dark spot.
Thanks was mixing the walnut “gel” I had with some odorless mineral sprits in a glass jar, to get the walnut gel thinner. There must have been some sort of reaction because the glass gar spontaneously crack.Ever had anything like this happen?
Hi J parks. Yes but very lightly. Usually a 1:3 ratio. One part walnut oil to 3 parts oil paint. Same ratio with the walnut oil gel. Thanks for your question 🙏🏻👩🏼🎨🎨
@@ShellyJCoxArtist This is not a wash however, nor is it thinning- *semantics. This is making a mixture of oil ratio to paint- or making a glaze. (However slight) Adding a solvent is considered "thinning", of which any oil does not do.
