water miscible oil paint

There are sev­eral types of paint that are designed to be like oil paint, only less bother. All of them han­dle approx­i­mately like oil paint, and paint­ings made with them look pretty much like oil paint­ings. They include:

Alkyds: These are paints made with a syn­thetic resin instead of a nat­ural dry­ing oil. The chief advan­tage to alkyds is that they dry overnight, and all col­ors dry at the same rate. The big dis­ad­van­tage is that (to me) they smell awful. The han­dling is also infe­rior to the han­dling of high qual­ity oil paint. Paint­ings done in alkyds should be labeled as alkyd paint­ings, not oil paintings.

There are also alkyd medi­ums, such as Liquin, Galkyd, and Neo-Meglip, intended to be mixed with reg­u­lar oil paints. That’s not what I’m talk­ing about here. Read the rest of this entry »