Product Description
- Our leanest oil painting medium
- For preparing panels for oil painting
- Restores saturation and depth of color in dry paintings
Underpainting
Our leanest oil painting medium, 3-in-1 is designed to be used for fluid washes and tonal layers of color. You can use as much (or as little) 3-in-1 as you prefer with oil colors to extend flow and increase transparency. 3-in-1 does not impart high-gloss and dries to a subtle, semi-gloss/satin finish.
When used with iron oxide underpainting colors like Raw Umber, thin washes and tonal layers of colors typically dry to the touch within approximately 24 – 48 hours. Cold temperatures, increased humidity and using colors not commonly associated with underpainting can prolong dry time rates. If one wants an even faster dry time result for their underpainting, we would suggest a 1:1 mixture of Galkyd + Gamsol.
3-in-1 is compatible with our entire range of oil painting mediums and other brands of painting medium. This includes Cold Wax Medium. Once the initial underpainting layers are dry, you can transition to a different medium.
3-in-1 may also be used on its own in upward progression, towards the middle and upper layers of a painting if desired. We suggest adding in small amounts of any of our fatter fluid painting mediums for this purpose. Galkyd and Galkyd Lite will maintain the same dry time of 3-in-1, meanwhile drying oils such as linseed, stand and safflower oil can extend dry time rates.
Panel Preparation
3-in-1 is useful for preparing wood panels and other substrates for oil painting and before application of Gamblin Oil Ground. The main purpose of this step is to stop the panel from taking on moisture which helps prevent warping overtime.
Oiling-Out Technique
Oil paintings sometimes develop an uneven variation where certain areas may appear dull while other areas appear more glossy. Oiling-out with 3-in-1 is an easy way to fix this. Oiling out, brushing on and wiping off oil medium, may be used throughout the painting process and prior to varnishing.
3-in-1 is not intended to be used under acrylic primers, acrylic paint or other water based media.
