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Walnut oil and no solvents

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Raven Waters
Mar 19, 2025
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One of the reasons I avoided painting with oil paints early on, right up until my second painting class at Georgia Southern, was that I wrongly assumed that using oils meant using turpentine.

I came across a man online who was using walnut oil. I tried it and never looked back.

This is the medium I use to thin the paint a bit.

There are other oils that can…

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