Shiny And Dull Areas In An Oil Painting
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It can happen that when an oil painting is drying up, some areas are shiny while others are dull. Especially when you hang them on the wall with a spotlight on it, this can be very ugly and spoil everything.
Of course you can repair this with a varnish later on, but you’ll have to wait at least a year before you can do that, because that’s how long it will take before the paint is dry enough and ready to be varnished.
So how can you avoid these spots while making the painting?
Well … inside the ‘InnerCircle’ membership area I teach a method of painting that I always apply, so that you never ever have this problem again. But I can’t spill the beans on that method here, as you probably understand, since that wouldn’t be fair to my paying members.
However apart from that method, another way to prevent this problem is by adding a little bit of marble dust to your paint mix.
Happy Painting 
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JanPaul
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hi
, wow stuff i’ve never heard of, marble dust..anyway, I used to use oils a lot when I was much younger and I guess one intuitively figures out how paints might dry faster by using certain colors, but this is a great site to really learn for sure what one is doing with paints. I’m wondering about this question still, because I used to be able to buy a spray varnish for certain paints, arent’ those available anymore? Now I’ve been far from my original home, and can’t find the product here, but don’t sprays do well before paint dries? thanks so much, D.D.
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Hello Diamond Draw,
Thanks for your kind words. To answer your question, this spray you mention could be a substance with cobalt in it. That would accelerate the drying. A spray varnish I don’t know. But you have to be careful with varnish anyway. You want to keep the color the same, and not that it changes after a while. Many restaurators are very busy working on paintings that are still relatively young, because of artists not knowing what they’re doing. Especially dammar varnish has proven to be a real disaster.
Believe me.. I’ve made all the mistakes you can make.
Happy painting,
JanPaul
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thnks!
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Appreciation for this specific helpful article! I also have got a website and i’m wanting to know, where can i acquire these kinds of excellent theme similar to yours?
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I am aware of this problem. It has happened to me several times, but mine was caused by using too much of a certain medium. Never heard of using Marble Dust before. Not even sure what it is to honest. Do you have a link to where I can read more about it online?
Thanks!
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Hi Ralph,
On the internet I don’t think there is much info about this.
Most painters are a bit secretive about their own personal methods of course.
So the real tricks of the trade are simply not openly available online.
For example making textures with twotone effects, as you can see with silk or suede. It’s possible to get that same effect with oils on canvas.
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