Tip: Adding to an old oil painting

Monday, 02 February 2009 12:05 Joan

Posted in Painting Tutorials

Anonymous 2009-03-20 22:30:04

Thanks for this, Joan. I'm going to assume this is not something one should try
on an old and highly valuable piece? Best left to an expert perhaps?

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If you fish out an incomplete oil painting and you have the desire to complete it, you may find the newly applied paint shrinks away like watercolour on oil. This can happen because paint absorbs oxygen from the air and gets hard and this causes the paint to change on the painting.
Try taking some linseed stand oil and dilute it by 20% with white spirit. Rub this sparingly and very carefully over the surface with a clean lintfree cloth. Leave overnight and then remove the residue. Leave it alone for about a week before starting again on your picture. A new base will then exist for the new paint.

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