What is the best product for thinning oils? Should I use the one I get at the art store? Zippo fluid? Please be specific. Thanks

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It depends on what you mean with thinning. For normal thinning I use the white spirit I buy at art crafts stores. When I have to thin it for washes/filters, therefore a bigger quantity is needed, I use Zippo lighter fuel when I have to do it indoors and white spirit when I do it oudoors just for the smell of white spirit that makes me sick in seconds if I use it indoors.
In my view the best of the two is white spirit, but Zippo fuel lighter is not bad at all...
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Hi

You can buy big containers of odorless thinner at the craft stores around here. It works well. Doesn't smell while it kills you, and it is relatively cheap. Mona Lisa is one brand. Any art supply store will have the equivalent thing.

There are also mediums that you can use to help with paint flow. Grumbacher make a few different mediums. The one that smells like oranges dries matte.

Cheers
Andy

It depends on the application.

For figures, you may use linseed oil to reduce brush marks. Watch out for flammability, though.

For washes, use turpenoid.

Is 'white spirits' (or mineral spirits) the brand?

Danke (++) B H (++)

As far as "White spirit" is written on the bottle's label any brand should be fine...
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