I am more and more interested in painting sans mediums. If I may, here's what my journey has been thus far:
Somehow, I learned in college to use Turpenoid Natural as a medium. I know better now! But that's what I did up until a little over a year ago. Luckily, those paintings aren't important and are all stuffed away.
After that, I painted with no medium. I honestly can't remember exactly what that felt like, but I do remember wishing that I could get certain paints more 'slippery'.
I got some mediums and have experimented with a couple, and have regularly begun to use Liquin because it dries underlayers well and makes it 'slippery'.
So, I've now been thinking about going back to using no medium, or to start using either Turp or OMS/Gamsol (I have some of both... would prefer to use OMS/Gamsol) and/or and an oil like linseed.
Can you please tell me, how do you deal with stiffer pigments when you aren't using a medium? Do you use Turp or OMS to help? What kind of a drying time to you have under these conditions?
Anthony, I don't mean to steal your thread and if I am please feel free to have this moved to a new thread! I hope this will give both of us some good info.
