what is up all you awesome artists out there wild here and in one of our last
videos we went over an awesome bri oil color alternative which happened to be
the gamblin 1980 series of paint if you want to check out more about this kit right here you can
check in the top right corner over there but when you buy this kit right here the community has been
asking me a question it comes with something at the end which is the solvent free gel what is it
what does it do is it necessary for oil painting and will it help me be a better wet on wet painter
well you know what these are all great questions and i'm going to answer them all for you right now
all right let's just uh let's just take this right out of here real quick so what is the gamblin
solvent free gel well to put it plainly it's an oil medium it will allow you to give your colors
more flow and transparency yet it's going to hold on to the shape of your brush marks the solvent
free gel has pretty much a moderately fast drying time and will increase gloss so keep this in mind
if you like to do wet on wet painting this is actually going to dry faster than oil paint
right out of the tube so this is generally going to have to be one of the first coats you put on
gambling solvent-free gel is made from safflower oil and alkyd resin gambling solvent-free gel is
also non-toxic contains no gamsol or petroleum distillates when it comes to using the gamblin
solvent free gel it doesn't compromise your colors or paint that much which is nice it will still
maintain brush strokes as you can see here and the more you add you can level out those paint strokes
a little bit more but it's going to keep that traditional style of how it's going to hold that
texture in the oil paint but it will increase your dry time and it also will increase the glossiness
of your paint and you need to be aware the more of the solvent-free gel that you add into any one of
your colors you are gonna make it more transparent so keep that in mind now when it comes to using
the solvent free gel gambling itself recommends using no more than 25 of the gel to any mixture of
color that you're going into any more can lead to weak paint adhesion if you're a traditional artist
out there that uses firm paint perhaps like the gamblin 1980 series and it's right out of the tube
adding a little bit of the solvent-free gel is going to increase the flow of that firm paint
so if you're a wet on wet artist like myself how does solvent-free gel actually apply to you
well there's two strong ways it can if you like to paint on black canvases and you want to have
colors that are more transparent but you didn't buy them that way perhaps they're a little more
opaque adding a little bit of solvent-free gel into them is going to help transfer them into
being semi-transparent allowing you to pull colors forward on those black canvases or for whatever
you want them for that's where that comes in to be really strong also increasing the gloss on
anything that you may want to add that glossy effect to perhaps water or maybe some parts of
certain highlights that are more specular but also if you have any problems applying highlights on
any part of your painting you can apply the solvent free gel to the base coat think for
example you got trees rocks mountains and certain types of clouds if you're having trouble making
highlights stick on that adding this to the base coat provided that you scrubbed your canvas clean
with either a dry brush or paper towels if you need an example you can check out this video
up here this is going to work wonders for you because this has fast drying medium in it which
means it's going to tack you up a little bit more so when you put your fatter color on top of that
it's going to flow and be beautiful and actually stick which is key for a lot of you new painters
out there so you may want to take a look at something like the solvent free gel from gambling
now i know what you're thinking what if you can't get the solvent-free gel from gambling well we can
do an alternative for you you know what i've been using for a number of years is using the windsor
newton liquin this is pretty much the same there's some subtle differences but this is pretty much
the go-to for so many professional artists out there but you still need to learn how to use this
effectively which we can do in another video i just wanted to show you when you buy the gamblin
1980 series kit what that solvent free gel is and i hope i answered all your questions of what it is
how it can help you and if it applies to you and what you basically can use it for
now if you want to help me you can always use the links down in the video description below
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