I know there are some products out there. Which is the best?How To Dry Oil Paint Quickly?
A fan would be your only option I'm afraid. Or some sort of blower if you can get you're hands on one.How To Dry Oil Paint Quickly?
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why not just use hair dryer.
I paint with Genesis which is similar to oil paint and won't dry until you heat it, and when you heat it, it sets in about 8 minutes. It's fab!
When mixed with galkyd medium, oils tends to dry faster. A little too fast for my taste. Also, different colors dry differently. I find the modern colors take forever, and the earth colors (burnt/raw sienna, burnt/raw umber, yellow ocher, ect) tend to dry much more quickly.
I don't reccommend drying your oil paints quickly at all. The reason oils last for such a long time and are so superior is because of their flexability over time. To dry oil paints quickly degrades this and thus degrades the quality of your work.
If you are impatient, use acrylics. They may be a more comfortable medium for you.
If you're talking about a painting that's already finished, there's not much you can do but wait. Oil paints cure by oxidation, meaning a hair dryer may make the top film dry but the paint beneath will never cure as oxygen can't get at it. It will eventually crack.
While painting, you can use a number of products that contain alkyd resins - Galkyd, Liquin, et al. are mediums that are added to your paint while you're working with them. They can decrease drying time dramatically.
Japan dryer (or siccative) is a mixture of white lead and mineral spirits - apart from being highly toxic, overuse tends to make the paint crack... I wouldn't recommend it since there are much better products available now.
Note - none of these products are meant to be used on their own or on top of a wet oil painting.
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