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How much Venice Turpentine do I need?
I'm new here and I have all of the paint colors I need and the other parts of the medium mixture except the Venice Turpentine. I know the number of parts of each item in the mixture, but how much of the VT (30ml, 120ml, etc.) do I need to buy to have enough starting from scratch? Thanks for your help.
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Venetian Turpentine is sold in quantities of Net Wt. 16 ounces. I ordered mine from The Origingal Horse Track Company - Amazon Marketplace. Ordered: 1 Farrier's Magic Venice Turpentine Hoof Conditioner $11.77 But what they sent was the Hawthorne brand for the same price, $11.77
How much you'll need depends on how you define "part" contingent upon whichever ingredient you have the least of. In my case I had one fluid ounce of clove oil. And I wanted to mix the slow dry medium for colors and, separately the slow dry medium for titanium white. I had to divide my one fl. oz. of clove oil between the two recipes and reserve a couple of teaspoons to add to Burnt Umber.
Example: for two tablespoons of clove oil I need five tablespoons of Venetian Turpentine or ten tablespoons to make equal amounts of both slow dry mediums, each of which call for 5 parts VT. One US tablespoon is 14.8 mL or about 15 mL. Ten tablespoons is about 150 mL.
I hope this helps answer your question.
P.S. be sure not to make the mistake I made - the recipe is part per volume not weight.