brushwork essentials by mark christopher weber pdf

For those of you joining me in MAUI, unless you will be in a damp area or you will be unable to leave your paintings in your car for drying, a moderately speedy medium is plenty quick. If you are travelling to a hot desert, your paintings will dry pretty quickly, and you may not need any medium at all to speed the drying. If you’re travelling to a cool climate, the only mediums that might be too quick would be something like Galkyd, which gets tacky pretty soon after leaving the bottle. Generally for air travel it is nice to have your paintings as dry as possible before you transport them home, so it’s best to choose a medium with as short a drying time as possible, but still slow enough for you to complete your work on location. Others you might be able to purchase at your destination. Some of them will be possible to bring in your luggage on an airplane.

There are many mediums on the market, all with their special properties. You might want to bring medium to alter working properties, speed or slow drying time, or affect the final look of the paint after it is dry. But if you’re accustomed to painting with medium, you might want to match, as closely as possible, the working properties of the medium you are accustomed to using.

It’s perfectly possible to paint with just the oil paint and no medium at all. Here’s what I mean: Flammable liquids (defined for airline purposes as any liquid with a flash point below 141 degrees) are prohibited in your carry-on and checked luggage. Having said that, some oil painting mediums just won’t fly. It’s probably not a great idea to change oil painting medium for a trip.

Brushwork essentials by mark christopher weber pdf