AUXILIARIE - Royal Talens

Painting pasteTalens Painting paste is a colourless medium thatcan be mixed with oil paint in any proportion. Thethickness is the same as that of the paint, and sothe paste can be described as an oil paint withoutpigment. Painting paste has various applications:Preventing wrinkling in thick paint layersWrinkling may occur during drying if paint isapplied in a heavy layer. Whether or not a paintlayer will wrinkle depends in part on the pigment.Cobalt blue, burnt umber, madder and metallicand pearlescent colours are all examples ofwrinkling colours. Adding painting paste to thepaint helps to prevent this wrinkling. The amountto be added depends on the extent to which thecolour concerned wrinkles. Between 20 and 40%is usually enough.121Pure paintwrinkles in athick layerIncreasing the amount of paintPainting paste can be mixed with oil paints in anyproportion. In this way more paint can be made ofexpensive colours without any resulting differencein colour. This is done particularly when applyingthick layers of paint, the impasto technique. Themore paste is added, the more transparent thepaint becomes; depending on the type of pigmentthis will not or hardly be visible in thicker layers.Decreasing the tinting strengthThe tinting strength of the paint will decrease inproportion to the amount of Painting paste that isadded. This can be particularly important when,using the alla prima (wet-into-wet) technique,colours with widely ranging tinting strengths aremixed with one another on the painting. By addingmore Painting paste to a strong colour, this colourwill become less dominant.Addingpainting pastepreventswrinklingOil colour