Moreover, I had always gravitated toward oil paints, which are forgiving by nature -- slow to dry and relatively malleable as ...

Pressed flax oil is edible as flaxseed oil when it's raw. But after it has been boiled, it turns into inedible linseed oil, a hardening oil. Tung oil is the harder of the two and the one most ...

Oil is the common vehicle employed for paints, and it is undoubtedly the best; it has, however, some defects requiring correctives. Thus drying linseed oil, which is made by boiling it with some ...