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I am a beginning oil painter. It isn’t clear to me from my book how to apply a glaze. It says apply after the painting is dry. Do they mean dry to the TOUCH or dry as in the painting has sat around for 6 months? Do you thin the pigment with mineral spirits or with linseed oil?

Thank you!

Glazing gives oil paintings beautiful depth and the illusion of inner light. It must be done only when your underlying layers are completely dry… up to 6 months for thick paint. If you glaze when only touch-dry, your glazed layer will crack. You have to give credit to those Dutch Masters for their patience!

Glazing achieves the best results by using transparent pigments, check your tubes & they should tell you transparency ratings. Mix a small amount of paint with:
- pure linseed oil – takes long time to dry
- equal parts linseed & damar varnish – less time
- equal parts linseed oil, damar varnish & turpentine or spirits, least amount of time to dry

If you use only spirits, this is not a glaze but a wash… it doesn’t give the same effect at all. Worse, it can damage or lift the paint beneath and may not adhere properly to the painting. Washes are to be used only in the first (lean or fast-drying) layer on the canvas, glazes (fat or slow-drying) on the top – thus the rule "fat over lean".

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