How often to dip your brush into the medium?

by Delmus
(Blue Ridge Mountains)

In your DVD demonstration I cannot see, when and how often you dip your brush into your medium (liquin, paint thinner, lavender mixture)?


Just prior to loading the brush with paint, I first dip it in the medium. I then grab paint with brush and mix. As I apply paint, and use this glob of paint up, I go back in for more medium, then more paint.


From what I understood from the DVD demonstration, you have one cup with odorless paint thinner only and the other with liquin, thinner and lavender oil. Is that correct?


I have a little linseed oil in the mixture also. The mixture has more oil added as each layer is done. There is only a little liquin added to speed up drying. The lavender oil is only for smell. You don't have to use it. It covers the scent of the turps, which is usually strong.