How can you get oil paint to dry faster?Please only real artists answer thanks.?

How do i mix and what do i mix with the paint to get it to dry faster?How can you get oil paint to dry faster?Please only real artists answer thanks.?
Most of the tubes of paints you're using should be pigment mixed with linseed oil - but not all of them are, so check the ingredients to see what you're working with. Linseed takes three to five days to ';dry'; (it actually hardens due to oxidization - same way iron turns to rust). You can find treated linseed oil that oxidizes faster - the first is called ';boiled'; linseed oil, but it's actually mixed in with turpentine and other polymers. The other is ';polymerized'; oil, which is boiled. (I blame marketing.)





You can !minimally! speed the process up by putting your painting in a warm and well ventilated area where it will get lots of light.





You'll also find other kinds of oils used in oil painting. Walnut oil is supposed to dry faster, but can be hard to find because it goes rancid very quickly. If you do find it, buy only what you need for the same reason. Poppyseed dries slower than linseed, so you'll probably want to avoid it. DO NOT get corn, cottonseed or sesame oils. They never completely dry, and should be labeled as ';semi-drying oils';. Don't buy ';non-drying'; for the same reason.How can you get oil paint to dry faster?Please only real artists answer thanks.?
Oil paint drys through the process call oxidation. In other words, oil paint needs to ';breath';. So it takes time.


Unless you can ';dry'; your paintings at a place where it has much higher oxygen content, like the hospital.


You can also use alkyd base mediums to speed up the drying time.


';Galkyd'; medium by ';Gamblin'; and ';Liquin'; medium by ';Winsor%26amp;Newton'; are the most popular brands use by students and artists.


You can also use or mix with cobalt dryer to speed up the drying time, but it is very toxic.


There is more. Some earth tone colors like raw umber and burnt sienna dry faster than the others. The shapes of their pigments are much rounder and pigment surfaces contain much less linseed oil, therefore, they dry faster.


So, you can mix some of those faster drying colors into the slower drying colors (yellow ochre, white,etc..) to speed up the drying time.
Oil Painting is an Art of patience as well as ability.... A good control of patience is all you can have. You can still paint over wet oil paints, which creats a mixed desired effect, just know depending on the moisture, there will be some blending if you paint over a wet layer.
Look in your local art shop or on the internet for a redardant medium mix as per the manufacturers instructions- this will dry the painting quicker.


It actually takes 6 months before you can varnish an oil painting, which is a hell of a long time.


Also, you can use Acrylic paint under oil paint (never vice versa) how about doing an underpainting in acrylic and then use oil paint either in two or three glazes or as a final covering on all parts of the painting. Perhaps combine all of the above- also do some research into water-mixable oil paints (which are a relatively new medium) - It may be that these dry faster as the water would evaporate, just leaving the oil paint on the surface (with other mediums like linseed oil, this also has to dry so lengthens the drying time of an oil painting. If you dont like using acrylics, try building a painting up in glazes, allowing time to dry in between.





Good luck!!!!
turn up the heat about 15 degrees.
Hi, If you are after speed, then oils are probably not the right medium for you. have you thought about good quality acrylics? don't be sniffy they are a fab medium and if used with small amounts of plaster of paris (mixed in to paint) they give an effect that I think actually looks better than oils. plus unlike 'fast drying oils' (which is a lie by the way!) the colour doesn't dramatically change when fully dry. Hope this helps.
I am not a ';Real'; Artist, but I do appreciate art and I was under the understanding that it takes nearly two hundred years for oil paint to dry fully, particularly when it is layered on heavily.
Japan dryer. However, over a period of many years, it will also cause the color to darken. This is a problem in fine art restoration.
Actually, oil paint never totally dries. If you were to leave oil paint in contact with air, it will harden, but if you use linseed oil, you will be able to use just as new. That's why when oil paint ';dries';, by that I mean, when it hardens, you will need to apply a varnish to protect your painting.


Painting with oil paint is complicated, I suggest you use Acrylic painting instead, it has the same characteristics as oil painting in terms of texture and appearance. Good luck!!!