[Woodcarver] Painting using linseed oil and artist oil

[djsamyrs]

Ev,
This is something I'm going to try. I like the idea of using linseed oil on the carving 1st. Everyone who has responded to my question has been very helpful. Thank you for your help, Ev. I will let you know how it works for me. Dan
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  From: ellenwoodarts 
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  Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 8:04 PM
  Subject: [Woodcarver] Painting using linseed oil and artist oil



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  Dan,

  There have been a few of you who have shown interest on how I finished my "Voyageur" carving. 

  This is just one way to finish a carving. I'm sure if you asked one hundred carvers how they finish a carving, you'll get about one hundred different answers.

  Ivan gave a nice overview of various mediums; the one I'll show is using boiled linseed oil and artist oils.

  When you start this process, it must be completed in one setting. You want the linseed oil, which will saturate the carving, to remain in a liquid state so the artists oil blends with the linseed oil rather than laying on top of it. If the linseed oil is dry, the paint will lay on the surface of the carving rather than becoming an integral part of it. 

  Saturate the carving with boiled linseed oil until it will not accept any more. Once the carving is saturated, wipe off all superficial linseed oil with a rag, then use a dry soft bristle brush to remove any oil which may be trapped in crevasses. Brush an area where you want to remove the trapped linseed oil, and then wipe the brush on a rag to remove any liquid which was collected on the brush. Continue the brush/wipe procedure until all superficial oil is removed from the surface and all crevasse of the carving.

  For my palette, I use a separate cup saucer for each color I'm going to use. Pour a small amount of linseed oil in the depression where the cup would sit, and on the lip of the saucer squeeze a small bead of a color you will be using.

  Mix a small amount of the paint with some of the linseed oil to make a stain and paint the stain on the carving. Continue this until you have the carving painted with all the colors desired.

  By having the carving saturated with the linseed oil, the paint will blend with the wet linseed oil which saturates the carving and stay where you want it without bleeding.

  If you want more wood grain to show in specific areas, or you want to highlights, wipe some of the stain from the surface of the carving. Wiping will remove some of the superficial stain, yet leave that which has saturated into the carving.

  I allow the stained carving to dry for a couple of weeks before painting the pupils in the eyes. Again after a couple of weeks, I used white paint on the tip of a needle to put the glint in the eyes.

  When all the paint was dry, I coated the carving with a light spray of clear acrylic varnish to protect the base paint.

  I like this process because the carving has color, yet you can see the wood grain through the paint. Again, if you want to see what this process looks like, check my web site at www.ellenwoodarts.com, click on Gallery and on thumbnail "one".

  You can also use this process using pure tung oil in place of the linseed oil.

  Each time you used any rags in this process, properly dispose of them to prevent the potential of spontaneous combustion.

  Any questions, please contact me.

   

  Ev Ellenwood

   

  www.ellenwoodarts.com

  ellenwoodarts at charter.net

   



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