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[QUOTE=Richard Bingham I believe you mentioned you would use it for cleaning brushes? Good idea. There is no good reason to replace pure spirits of gum turpentine with this stuff in your painting practice. Turps is better for your paint films..
The subject of mediums is a minefield. I question why you mix linseed oil (with a drier) and stand oil with a solvent (turps) ?? What do you feel this accomplishes?[/QUOTE]
I will use it for cleaning brushes and it works fine for that.
But I came to think that, if it is only a solvent and it leaves no residue in the form of paraffin ( the white greasy stuff that never dries) I might as well use it for deluding my paint also.
Real vegetable turpentine leaves a small amount of oil / resin which is good for the thinned paint.
If I use the Petrol with Stand Oil the two elements will balance each other. The Stand oil is "partly dried Linseed oil" and will not wrinkle when drying, it leaves the dry oil paint more glossy than raw Linseed oil does.
I also use 1 part of Linseed Oil with siccative because I use Titanium White that takes forever to dry.
Ps.
I tested Mineral Spirit, Odorless Solvent and Vegetable Turpentine by letting the three evaporate from my glass palette. Only the Vegetable Turpentine left something on the glass after the solvent had evaporated.
Anyway, it seems that the OS would be harmless to use in a mixture and that is also what the label said.
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