Excerpt: Driers from Coatings Materials and Surface Coatings By Arthur A. Tracton Download

The influence of lead ions on the drying of oils by Charles S. Tumosa and Marion F. Mecklenburg Download

Odorless Mineral Spirits (OMS) is a highly refined variety of Stoddard Solvent, a petroleum-derived hydrocarbon solvent used as a thinner and brush rinse for oil colors and some varnishes. Stoddard Solvent was originally developed as a dry cleaning fluid and has been used as an herbicide, in addition to its use as a paint thinner. [...]

It seems no painter can resist the occasional smudge or dab at a canvas with bare fingers. Some give in to temptation completely, using hands more than brushes. Recent analysis leads scholars to suspect much of Leonardo’s work in oils was done with his fingers; Renaissance era treatises on painting recommend using the fingers to [...]

“On the Theory and Practice of Painting in Oil and Watercolors” T.H. Fielding, 1846 Download:

The Art of Painting Portraits, Landscapes, Animals, Draperies, Satins (download) By John Cawse, 1840

The Art of Portrait Painting in Oil Colors (download) By Henry Murray, 1851 Originally published by Winsor & Newton

THE PAINTER IN OIL (download) by Daniel Burleigh Parkhurst Read in browser:

Methods and Materials of Painting of the Great Schools and Masters (download) by Sir Charles Lock Eastlake

The Art of Painting in Oil and in Fresco (free download- PDF) Translated from Jean-Francois-Leonor Merimee’s original treatise. Read in browser- HTML (first page scrambled, otherwise legible) Originally published in 1830, this book is a great document of techniques and practices in traditional painting as they were taught and applied late in the 18th and [...]