{"id":229,"date":"2017-11-27T19:39:41","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T19:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/createlet.com\/?p=229"},"modified":"2020-10-06T10:38:50","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T15:38:50","slug":"mineral-spirits-vs-turpentine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/createlet.com\/mineral-spirits-vs-turpentine\/","title":{"rendered":"How Mineral Spirits & Turpentine Are Completely Different"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Does this sound familiar at all?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When first starting out on my oil painting journey, I found that I was running through my tubes of paint at an incredible rate\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026and I didn\u2019t even realize it!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I thought that it was completely normal that every painting I made used up at least a half of a large tube of Titanium White\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…that\u2019s not normal<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Besides, how many more tubes of Titanium White can a starving artists budget really handle before it breaks the bank?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I mean, come on:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We all love to paint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But when it requires endless restocking of the mediums that we so passionately love, we sometimes need to take a more measured approach<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even if budget isn\u2019t necessary the biggest issue (lucky you), you still might run into some problems when it comes to honing your technique if you find that the oil based paint is just simply too thick of a medium for you to wield appropriately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course you could use a bottle of linseed oil, but then you run into the problem of long drying times that not only get in the way of your workflow, but may simply kill your progress all together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enter solvents.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now for us artists, we find that there are two major types of solvents that we are relying on time and time again, and that\u2019s either a turpentine or a mineral spirt<\/strong> (and perhaps a secret third one\u2026which I will get to in just a minute<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you have used one of these before, you probably are already familiar with the results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If not, I want to spend just a minute talking about a solvent for those of you who are a bit newer to the ever-growing world of art and art supplies:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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