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Storing a pallet of color in the Freezer
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So today I have started a different Painting why?????
Well Thursday I'm having a pace maker fitted so I wanted two paintings on the go at the same time.
All the hard work is done now so I can just sit a the Easel and paint So I have mixed my paint for this one on Glass place matt in a plastic A4 box with a lid (Not air tight)
I have read this is the normal practice todo with oil paint But how long will it last in the freezer. All So again how long to defrost the paint again so I can use it.
Robert My Edward book came today that's 5 books to read while I'm healing from my Operation
James
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I don't have detailed experience of freezing a palette. I do know that darkness retards 'drying'so that's good for your freezer.
Adding a wad of tissue soaked in clove oil to your container will also retard drying.
I've used mini plastic pots to store paint mixes in the fridge for a month or more. That said, I also added Mark Carder's slow drying mix to the paints 
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Freezing shouldn't hurt the paint but - it won't help it, either. I'm fully as mean as the next man, if the next man is a miser, but I just wouldn't do this - use the paint up, and squeeze out more when you need it; freezing will cause ice crystals to form in the paint, ice is water, I don't want water in my oil paint.
Oil of cloves needs to be kept well away from oil paint - I can testify that it's good for tooth abscesses, but even if kept separate from the paint, clove oil fumes can indeed be very effective at delaying drying: to the extent that you run the risk of it never drying at all. I know of Mark Carder, but havent used his slow-drying mix with oil paint, and though a very good artist, he's also quite a controversial one in terms of techniques - if he's the man I'm thinking of? Geneva oil paint?
I don't think there's any point in seeking to hasten the drying time of oil paint - maybe if you're putting an exhibition together and have run out of time, but then you'll still have the issue of not being able to varnish (there is NO varnish suitable for appying to oil paint in a matter of days or weeks, whatever some claim); oil paint dries from the outside in, or "cures": your quick-dried oil paint won't really be dry at all, and thinking it is will lull you into a sense of false security. Letting it take the time it needs remains the best advice, as it always was. Patience!
Good luck with your pacemaker: quite irrelevantly, before coming here this evening I chanced upon a Guardian link telling us that night-owls and insomniacs might be more prone to diabetes and heart disease: well THAT'LL help us get to sleep, won't it?
And my next painting is a Mountain Landscape 
Aoraki Mount Cook from New Zealand
James
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I probably throw away more oil paint in a year, than many amateur artists use! That’s because I do tend to squeeze out generous sized blobs which isn’t always going to be used up.
Couple that with painting most days, and it adds up I suppose… but I don’t worry about it.
You’ve got a good selection of books there James, I’m confident that you’ll find Vibrant Oils really helpful. I’ve got that Seago book myself, which is full of his excellent paintings, great for inspiration in my case. Who couldn’t fall to be inspired by this great artist!
And I hope that all goes smoothly for you tomorrow… you’ve got a great new hobby to help with your convalescence.
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I have used Mark Carder's slow drying mix and have never had a problem. I like it because I can spend time getting my colour strings right, knowing that they will be usable for about 10 days. It improved my paintings no end.
Ah well, whatever you do I hope your pacemaker does the job. They're blooming marvellous things.
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I don't use Carder's paint or methods, but presume he carefully calculates the amount of clove oil in his paints, because any mistakes there could be disastrous, and I don't see how he avoids making them, because oil paints dry at a very varying rate; presumably the limited range of colours he offers makes that less of a problem. I think I saw something online the other day to the effect that he either no longer makes these paints, or they're no longer available - I know no further details as yet.
Normally, the question is how do you make oil paints dry faster .... (answer, by using faster-drying paints and/or alkyds); we seem to want just about everything from oil paint - fast drying, slow drying, "buttery", gritty: fortunately, there's a range of paints which corresponds to most such requirements.
I shall still not be putting my oil paints in close proximity to the frozen green beans - "Painting today Robert?"; "In a while - waiting for the paint to de-frost....": no, I don't see it.
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