![]() Perhaps some of you use this with good effect? It was rather yellowish and it darkened the colors and it refused to dry! When I tried to add pastel over it, it was gummy! I quickly ruled it out. Definitely brighter than when I use my regular alcohol, I think. I liked the way the pastel looked afterwards. The Gamsol went on really nicely and I took an immediate liking to it. I tried to use similar colors in each box. ![]() The turpenoid definitely had the most oily feel to it and I think it must have been what I used. But when I got to the painting, there was one place on it that I couldn’t get the pastel to stick to. I used one of these (maybe turpenoid?) as the solvent and it allowed me to really work the underpainting in a beautiful way. I also remembered an experience with my painting Snow and Lock that I painted and sold in 2015. I wanted to see what benefits these others might have. My normal solvent for hard pastel is 90% isopropyl alcohol that I get at CVS or Walgreens. ![]() Not sure about the others but over the years I’ve studied with a number of people who recommended one thing or another. I bought the denatured alcohol because Duane Wakeham used it. I bought the Gamsol years ago to try out oil (gave it up fast!). The four solvents were Gamsol, Turpenoid, odorless mineral spirits, and denatured alcohol. Using a sheet of UART 320, I divided it in four and used some of the warm colors I was planning to use in the underpainting. I found cans in my home studio cabinet and decided to do a test of them to see how they differed. I noted in my last post that I recently decided to try a different solvent for my latest painting, Summer Greens.
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