Tonal Day

8x10 inches
oil on panel
silver plein air frame
500.00

Purchase at www.lindablondheim.com



Painters Tip


Mediums

Let's explore mediums for a few days.

Medium is the term for the fluid that is added to pigment to facilitate handling.

For oil paints the medium is a binder, a thinner with sometimes an addition of resin, varnish, drier, retarder,oils, or textural materials.

For acrylics there are various mediums which retard drying, make paints more transparent, and thicken the paints for impasto work.

Binders:

The binder is the most important element in a medium as it adheres to the painting surface, holding the particles of paint and drying them to the surface to form the paint film. Oil paints are ground pigments with a small amount of binder to secure their storage and transfer from tube to palette. To make them workable with the brush, you need to add more binder known as medium.

More tomorrow on mediums...........