great video! so the alkyds need to be mixed with Gamsol for the first layer and then neat, straight from the tube for the second? I've heard a medium called Liquin mentioned on other channels, is that the same as Gamsol? Thank you
Hi Sarah! Gamsol is an odorless mineral spirit/solvent. Kind of like turpentine. I use that for the first layer. I don't use Liquin which will indeed thicken and dry the paint quicker, but Liquin is an alkyd medium just under another name. You don't need to add it as that is what the Alkyd does that's already present in this brand of paint. Hope that answers your question!
As it turns out, the biggest problem with alkyd paints is simply the name. Far far too many people just cannot understand that they are not acrylics, because the words are too similar. Big marketing failure there! On many occasions when I have tried to suggest alkyds to those using trad oils, the reasons they give that they don't want to use them are _the reasons they don't want to use acrylics!_ Just will not go through the head that these essentially ARE oils, just with a different (and IMO) improved kind of oil. Perhaps if another name had been chosen, alkyds would have swept traditional oil off the market, since they are oils without all the technical problems of trad oil, and with a much more useful range of drying times available.
great video! so the alkyds need to be mixed with Gamsol for the first layer and then neat, straight from the tube for the second? I've heard a medium called Liquin mentioned on other channels, is that the same as Gamsol? Thank you
Hi Sarah! Gamsol is an odorless mineral spirit/solvent. Kind of like turpentine. I use that for the first layer. I don't use Liquin which will indeed thicken and dry the paint quicker, but Liquin is an alkyd medium just under another name. You don't need to add it as that is what the Alkyd does that's already present in this brand of paint. Hope that answers your question!
@@jhillfineart thank you so much x
As it turns out, the biggest problem with alkyd paints is simply the name. Far far too many people just cannot understand that they are not acrylics, because the words are too similar. Big marketing failure there! On many occasions when I have tried to suggest alkyds to those using trad oils, the reasons they give that they don't want to use them are _the reasons they don't want to use acrylics!_ Just will not go through the head that these essentially ARE oils, just with a different (and IMO) improved kind of oil.
Perhaps if another name had been chosen, alkyds would have swept traditional oil off the market, since they are oils without all the technical problems of trad oil, and with a much more useful range of drying times available.
I never thought of the name in that way! Makes total sense. I couldn't agree more!