How do you thin oil paint enough to drip without losing the color?

I want to put drips in a painting I'm working on but I don't know how to make the paint thin enough. Mineral spirits alone takes away the color too much. Any ideas?How do you thin oil paint enough to drip without losing the color?
Linseed oil is one good medium to use, but there are many others. Walnut oil, sun-thickened oils, resins and combinations of all of them are all good painting mediums, but there is a lot of discussion about some ingredients darken over the years especially resins. My favorite is a combination of walnut oil, spike oil and balsam. There are may good books out there on the subject. If you email me I can send you a list. If you do choose to simply use linseed oil remember that some paints, meaning the pigments they are made up of, are more transparent than others and will dilute in color more than others. It may say on your tube the opacity of that color. I can't find a good list now, but search online. I do know that the cadmiums and most cobalts are opaque. All lakes and many earths are transparent or semi-transparent. The more opaque your color, the more you can thin it out, but be careful you have to keep the integrity of the film that gets set up by the drying oil (Linseed oil that the paint is made out of) You really don't need to thin the paint down too much to get to drip. Try picking the canvas up and shaking it some to get the thicker paint to move. You can take out some frustration out on the painting while you are at it! Have fun.How do you thin oil paint enough to drip without losing the color?
The trick to retaining colour in a wash is to use a good professional grade oil paint. Inexpensive paints have more binder and less pigment, and it shows when diluting them.





Also, try using a mixture of linseed and spirits instead of plain spirits, the paint will retain its glow and you'll have more control over the drips.
use linseedoil;cobalt drier %26amp; paint thinner or preferably turps to thin to translucent,almost watercolor like conitncy....this is (thin paint) for by itself or underpainting....fat over lean is a good ';rule';...ive seen over-thinned paints crack in less that 5 years.


my stuff is on youtube....mark partington


also flickr
I use mineral spirit to clean paint from my brushes, but linseed oil to paint with. It's easy to modify the amount to keep it opaque but more...spreadable.
DON';T use mineral spirits or turps! Try liuquol or liquin.
What about an oil bar and thin it out ? I haven't seen them in an art store in years, but you might try Dick Blick.
linseed oil?

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