[Woodcarver] Painting question

[Ed Ertel]

Pete dips in boiled linsed oil tinted with raw sienna
oil paint, which gives the wood a yellowish color
something like pine.   He doesn't wait for the oil to
dry, he just rubs off the excess and then starts
painting with his watered down acrylics.

The paint will cover much more evenly - the end grain
is more or less filled with oil, and the acrylic seems
to "float" on the surface.  The paints will not run
less.  It helps to score or undercut between one color
and another to help avoid the paint going to an
adjacent area.

After painting, he lets everything dry for several
days  before finishing with wax.

EdE
Tolland, CT

--- Mike Gratton <mike_gratton at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> I apologize to anyone who's seen this on the
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> I've got a question about painting.  I read in one
> of
> Pete LeClair's books that he dips or paints his
> figures with tinted boiled linseed oil before
> painting. In his book, Mike Shipley paints then
> dips.
>  
> I was wondering, if I dip my figure in the boiled
> linseed oil first and let it dry, will the paints
> run
> less and cover more evenly when I paint?  
>  
> I do have some sealer I can use but I'm wondering
> about the boiled linseed oil.  I've also heard about
> soaking the figure in water but it takes me a while
> to
> paint so I'm afraid it would dry out before I
> finished.
>  
> Thanks in advance,
> mikeg 
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