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Old 07-10-2003, 11:36 PM   #3
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I forgot several other things.

Walnut oil is slower drying than linseed oil, so living in your muggy and hot environment walnut may not prove to be so good.

Also, using a painting medium isn't necessary. If you find the paint too stiff and want to experience better flow just add more linseed oil.

There is very little evidence of any thing other than linseed or walnut oil in the paint film layers prior to the 18th century.

Paintings painted by the likes of Rembrandt, Van Dyke, Rubins and Velasquez are in far better shape than those painted during the centuries that followed.
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