Mixing Oil Mediums - “How To” + Some History = Everything you Need to Know!!🌟

Finally I get around to discussing Oil Paint Mediums! An introduction to mixing and all the different mediums and effects you can get with them!
Adding Mediums to Oil, while not essential, can change the viscosity, surface finish and drying time to your painting, so it’s worth researching if you are looking for a different or particular effect to your final painting!
I touch a little on history too for context of how dramatic these mediums can be for changing artistic practise in a chemical way!
📚 Gottsegen’s “The Painters Handbook” is my secret weapon for this episode!!
Basics info is:
The linseed oils! Standard is a popular choice, Refined is glossier and is good for “wet on wet” paintings, Cold Pressed is paler and the purest form and dries quicker I find. Linseed Stand Oil is tough, thicker and can be thinned with turpentine and dammar varnish to create a beautiful glaze on a 1:5:1 ratio!
I use Poppy Oils and Walnut Oils, but empasto mediums and beeswax are also great to shake things up!
Remember, fast drying/slow drying - glossy/matt - transparent/opaque - smooth/textured are just a few basic effects on my “scale of medium possibilities” you can create!
There are so many mediums available, if you’d like more links and information take a look below!
(With mediums it’s all about experimenting and exploring new techniques- there is no right or wrong apart from the “fat over lean” policy which encourages building paint layers “thin-thick” to prevent cracking oil paint when drying.)
Hopefully this helps refresh the topic of oil mediums and opens up possibilities for artists to become mad scientists!!
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