Fast Drying Medium For Oil Paint

One way is to use acrylic paint as a base.

Fast drying medium for oil paint.

Oil paint is typically a slow drying medium but there are ways to make it dry quicker. One more great advantage of using turpentine in the beginning of the painting is it has the ability to accelerate drying time so you can proceed with the painting quite soon. As oil paint dries its solid components adhere to each other a process called curing. Also you can paint in much thinner layers which may sound pretty obvious but it makes hardly any difference.

An alkyd based semi gel medium grumbacher quickdry will shorten the drying time of water mixable oil paints. Drying time is the amount of time it takes for oil paint to be dry to the touch after application. For example oil paint may dry within 6 8 hours but cure in 3 7 days. With a viscosity that is similar to traditional painting media made from linseed oil gamblin s galkyd medium increases the fluidity of oil colors while speeding up their drying time.

But the turpentine itself in its own condition as the only medium for paint only efficient and has its strengths in the first stage of the painting process. Other fast drying mediums include windsor and newton s liquin original fine detail and gamblin s galkyd lite which fasten up the speed of drying the more paint you add probably about 1 2 days depending. When fully cured you can apply another layer of paint without fear of harm wrinkling or cracking.