I am posting this in two forum categories so everyone will see it.
We have updated the paints we recommend for staining as well as the pencil we recommend for drawing. We will remake the "how to stain a canvas" video in the near future as well.
Click here for the updated supply list.
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I live in Vancouver. Do you have any suggestions on where I can find appropriate Venice turpentine here in Vancouver? Thank u!
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Rath Art Supplies
2410 Main Street
Vancouver
It's a bit closer than Montreal
I was unable to find VT in Rath's product range or in any other Vancouver art supply store.
Denis
Great. Thanks.
Denis
Thank you Dencal!
@H_Orton Here is the recipe from my notes and my label on the bottle:
SDM for Titanium White only
10 parts OMS (I use Gamsol)
5 parts refined linseed oil
5 parts Venice turpentine
1 part stand oil
Summer
@ranchita We don't sell any physical products through DMP, and we're focused on expanding the Geneva line (more products, more colors, and making it more widely available) and avoiding solvents altogether. Making a medium that usually works okay with most tube paint is sort of a compromise function-wise and quality-wise, and while it was the best option before, now that we make paint that is much better performance-wise, much more economical, and much much easier to use, we really don't recommend SDM and tube paint if you have access to Geneva paint. We realize not everyone does have access to Geneva paint yet, or may have paint they want to finish using before switching, so that's why we still provide the how-to videos and recipes for slow-dry medium… but a lot goes into our products, and making it, testing it, selling it, and shipping it is just not a direction we want to go in with all the other things we have planned that we need to get to.
I agree, it's a pain to get all the SDM ingredients and mix them into paint and store them and all that stuff, and that's partly what prompted Mark to start making ready-to-use paint in the first place! But if you need SDM, the ingredients are available out there, just make a post letting people know which country you live in and they can give you links to the stuff you need.