[Woodcarver] Painting using linseed oil and artist oil (chat)

[Patti Landmann]

Hey Steve.....Joking right?

Patti

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 Maybe you did not boil it long enough ?
 
 
 
 Merrilee Johnson wrote:    
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http://wwwoodcarver.com/WWWList/WWWList.html     Thank you for your information on how you finished your carving.  One time I  tried boiled linseed oil but it smelled bad and stayed sticky for months.  I  think I did something wrong.  It's time to try again! Merrilee     
        
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 <http://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



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