I would like a information on glaze, is it a product already made or do you mix liquin ,linseed oil and paint.? I am not a expert on oil painting and have trouble having someone to anwser my questions. Also I have a hard time funding books or magazines for oil Thank you

Hello; I haven´t enough experience, but I read (and I tried sometime) that is possible to make a good glaze using linseed oil and dammar varnish. In this case, you get an oil-resin medium. I read this in a book of Antoni Pedrola, spanish painter, Tecniques and procedures of painting (I don´t know if exists an english version). I hope this can help you

A glaze is a transparent color (no white or opaque) mixed with linseed oil and applied very thinly over a dry area. Sometimes partially rubbed off.

Of course there are variety ways to glaze but the way I like most is:
At first make sure that the oil color on your canvas is dried, that's really important; never glaze your wet painting, if you don't want it ruined!

**now you can mix about" 2/3linseed oil+1/3(or less) liquin +transparent color"**

REMEMBER: Just transparent colors are for glazing, otherwise if you want to show smogs...

You can use just linseed oil by itself (but it takes too much time to dry), or if you want it dry faster you can use more liquin (using too much liquin is not recommended).but the way I wrote you is the normal way.

the glaze layer must be thin ,If you used too much oil and it starts leaking, just lay your painting down HORIZONTAL and put some dry and recyclable newspaper(or any other suitable things) on it.

"test every thing "BEFORE" you use it, I'm not in charge of any damages! ;-) "

I hope my letter was helpful,please give your point of views and your experiences about it.

You might try Northlight book club for books on oil painting as well as other meduims. Link www.northlightbookclub.com

You Have been given some good advise. you can try damar or copal varnish. DaVinci used decreasing layers of glazes to produce his soft luminous effects. Takes a long time but looks good.

I think Robert Gamblin's products, the Galykyd and Galkyd Light are excellent for glazing. They're premixed and ready to go. I use his products and have been really happy with the results. They are especially good if you don't use turpentine (which I don't) because they're made to be used with Mineral Spirits.

hello
i read this posts but i dont know what is liquin.anyone can tell me what is ?
is turpentine?
thank you

Liquin is one of several alkyd mediums artists can use to thin their oil paints and speed up the drying time. Liquin is Winsor & Newton's brand and it has a gell-like consistency. Gamblin makes several similar products that are either fluid or gell (available in a tube insread of a bottle), and Martin F. Weber makes a gell called Res-N-Gel.

Any of these can be used for establishing a glaze over areas of a painting that have dried. As others have pointed out, the pigment you use should be transparent like cobalt blue, red iron oxide, etc.

Using linseed oil for a glaze will yield a glossy finish, and the glaze will take a while to dry. Because of that, you might want to lay the canvas down so the glaze won't run and cause striations of color. Most artists use a thick linseed oil such as sun-thickened linseed oil to avoid having the glaze run.

Hi,
There are allready severall things said about glazing but you can use all de colors you want. Glazing is used to make all colors transparant and not only the transparant one's.

The best way to use a glaze is to use them from light to dark otherwise the paint becomes milky.

The simplest glaze is the one with only more linseed oil, other additives are added to speed up drying, like varnish or to make the glaze flow better use some terpentine (i believe this is a dutch word for white spirit)

www.waltersfineart.nl

hi,i do glaze work all the time using just liquin...i dont add anything to it! its complete on its own..but i do use it a bit differently than maybe someothers might...i tend to spread it onto my canvas with a lint free cloth, very important!, and paint into the thin layer i have applied....the previous work has to be dry...and using it in this way? if i paint in the morning the following morning it is completely dry and ready for the new days work....i use any color, whether it states its transparent or opaque doesnt matter....
you do however, use less, far less paint, if you want to keep translucent layers of work..i am happy to answer any and all questions about my methods!....

Be careful with Liquin because it does yellow. A painting I did 5 years ago is already yellowing. Marvin Mattelson told me about Gamblin's Neo Megilp a few years ago and I've been using it every since--great stuff.

good luck,
Renee

yow...i will have to check on this stuff, so far i have only used liquin for two years now so too early to tell if its yellowing the way i use it....but thanks for the ink!!

I recommend buying a ready made glaze from an Art store. If you can't go in person try a site like Cheap Joes. No need in reinventing the wheel.

quote:

Originally posted by claire:
I would like a information on glaze, is it a product already made or do you mix liquin ,linseed oil and paint.? I am not a expert on oil painting and have trouble having someone to anwser my questions. Also I have a hard time funding books or magazines for oil Thank you

Hi!
Anyone tried glazing with Venetian Turpentine?
Does it dry easily? Can we mix it with regular turpentine?
They say not to use it if the surface of the canvas has casein in it. Regular prestretched canvases for oil painting sold in the shops do not have casein in them do they? I don't think so, but I have to be sure!!!

This message has been edited. Last edited by: lale,