Oiling out (Patreon)

I want to talk about oiling out a painting today.

Oil paintings dry unevenly and it’s especially visible when you see a painting at an angle (like I show on the picture) Some areas are dull and others are quite glossy.. When we want to make adjustments on top of a dry layer, it’s good to even it out and bring some of those dull/faded areas back to life so that we’ll see what colors we’re actually dealing with. All you need to do is take a very small amount of linseed oil on a sponge and rub it onto the painting. Make sure you do it over a COMPLETELY dry layer! You don’t want to mess anything up.

So, what you’ll need for it is a soft sponge or anything similar but preferably something that cannot leave any pieces of lint, any small particles/hairs on your painting.

Make sure there is no hair or dust on the surface of the painting beforehand as well! And then rub a small amount of oil into the areas of your painting that you want to work on more.

Now our painting is even and we see the actual (vivid) colors! 

And that’s how you oil out a painting :)