, the painter tells of getting off a bus in Chelsea one day, wandering into an art - supply shop and coming across a bottle of quick -
drying alkyd painting medium for the first time.
Not exact matches
Colours: Windsor Newton Griffin
Alkyd (Fast
Drying Oil Colour)- Titanium White, Yellow Ochre, Raw Sienna, Burnt Umber, Raw Umber, French Ultramarine, Sap Green, Windsor Yellow, Cadmium Red.
Secretly using some original techniques, such as egg as glue or acrylic resins, phenol formaldehyde, and modified
alkyd, Rothko tried to make the paints
dry quickly.
And I use
alkyd, which takes about two days to
dry, and once it's
dry, I then take off the little rubber bumps, which create those little holes with various kinds of white, which is mixed with a little bit of cerulean blue, and sometimes with raw umber or yellow ochre.
An added benefit is that water - based latex
dries faster than oil - based
alkyd, and clean up's a lot easier — just soap and water (versus solvent, in the case of
alkyd).