Thank you very much. I have started a test underpainting in burnt umber last night, 8 hours ago, using walnut oil with a little lead napthante in it for my medium. It is completely dry this morning(8 hours later).I will use some transparent flake white that I have for the white over painting. Lead will not hurt you unless you eat it or layer it onto your skin or sand it when dry and breath in the dust. Lead white is very good and I have some that has been made with calcium carbonate(I hope thats right)added to it, so it is even more transparent.
I have been painting with different mediums (watercolor, egg tempera, pastel, ink, colored pencil) for 40 years. There isn't anyone near here that teaches anything like that. I have seen videos and read much about the "technique mixe" method of layering. There is a Russian artist on the web that has a demo on his site about this. It seems that each artist has a different version of exactly how the layers should be applied. His name is Alexi Anotov.
I will do a WIP and post it here in a few weeks. Our Thansgiving is tomorrow, and I'm the mother, so I must cook.
The main thing is that the paint needs to be transparent. It all depends on the amount of oil in the paint. It depends on what brand of paint you use and how much oil has been used in it's making.
I am amazed that my underpainting that I did last night, highly diluted with walnut oil/ lead napthante(no solvents) is absolutely dry this morning. The layers will be easy to do like this. This dries faster than Liquin, and it dries shiny. Let's see if the next layer will adhere.
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