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PostPosted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 8:07 pm 
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Well what is this wet blending notion? will someone please explain to me, please please please. Thanks.

I'm asking after seeing Olofers non-lotr thread. It's mentioned in there several times and the results produced are magnificent. (not that I will ever be able to paint like olofer)

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http://www.coolminiornot.com/forums/sho ... !&p=536921

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmka0s78O04

The first YouTube link is pretty good, though at the end he suggests just using a lot of paint if you don't have any drying retarded - this is bad advice, so don't do it. I have some proper drying retarder, but I also have a small paint dropper bottle with Windex glass cleaner (just the normal blue stuff) which another painter showed me years ago. It works very well as a as a medium that acts as a slight drying retarder, though also very well for a surface tension breaker for washes and paint thinner for regular blending and highlighting, so I now use this almost exclusively instead of water or saliva.

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scipio.au wrote:
I also have a small paint dropper bottle with Windex glass cleaner (just the normal blue stuff) which another painter showed me years ago. It works very well as a as a medium that acts as a slight drying retarder, though also very well for a surface tension breaker for washes and paint thinner for regular blending and highlighting, so I now use this almost exclusively instead of water or saliva.


So can you or would you use this to thin paints back down when they have dried out a little?? I normally just add a few drops of water, but if windex works and add's value at a drying retardant then hey, that's cool.

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DM wrote:
So can you or would you use this to thin paints back down when they have dried out a little?? I normally just add a few drops of water, but if windex works and add's value at a drying retardant then hey, that's cool.


Yeah, I used to add water, which worked well enough, but nowadays I use a few drops of windex. I've also heard of people using distilled water.

Though I'm not sure of the specific benefits of any of the three when used as thinner, I essentially just use the windex since I'm already using it as a thinner on the palette, so I figure it can't hurt. :)

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