Making Your Own Refined Linseed Oil Like the Old Masters
DAMIAN OSBORNE DAMIAN OSBORNE
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 Published On Feb 4, 2021

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Learn about the old masters painting materials and how to make your own DIY mediums for painting. Refined linseed is an Old Master painting medium. In this video, I wash linseed oil with the salt and sand method which is one of the old master painting secrets. This produces an excellent paint medium which commercially refined linseed oil is unable to beat. And it makes an excellent oil for grinding your own pigments.

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Key Moments:
00:00 Intro.
01:08 What you'll need for making your own hand-refined linseed oil.
02:14 The salt and sand method for refining linseed oil.
12:34 Rinsing the oil with a water-only wash.
14:16 Separating the refined linseed oil from the water.
15:15 Final thoughts on making your own refined linseed oil.

Thanks to Tad Spurgeon for his generous information. Check out his site:

https://www.tadspurgeon.com/


I kept this video relatively short, so please check out my website if you would like to learn more stuff:

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