Artists Oil Paint History
For oil painters: Increase the fluidity of your paint by mixing the colour with glaze medium (a mix of linseed oil, dammar varnish and solvent), and apply with a fine round or rigger brush for flowing, even, unbroken lines.
Lisa Takahashi • Ways to Sign Your Paintings
"Watching the paint dry," but oil paint doesn’t dry; it only polymerises
in no other culture is the difference between ‘masterpiece’ and average work so large as in the tradition of the oil painting.