USING MAX GRUMBACHER

• Use properly prepared painting supports, such as canvas or panels. They should be primed for oil painting. Raw canvas and unprimed paper are not suitable.
• Follow the basic rules of oil painting, including the "fat over lean" rule. Remember that water is a solvent and will make a leaner mixture.
• When using water as a thinner, add small amounts at first, just as you would add turpentine or odorless thinner to a conventional oil color.
• MAX is completely intermixable with conventional oil colors, and can still be mixed with water if you maintain a proportion of 1 part conventional oil colors to 2 parts MAX. You can surpass this proportion, but you will have to use Grumbacher Brush Soap and water for clean up. Thinning may require linseed oil or a conventional medium.
• MAX also can be mixed with your favorite oil color mediums, driers, gels and glazing mediums, etc. The same 1 part additive to 2 parts MAX holds true.
• When glazing with a mixture of 2 parts MAX and 1 part linseed oil, add a few drops of Alkyd Painting Medium to the mix. This will help speed drying.
• You shouldn't mix MAX (or any other oil color) with acrylics or paint on top of MAX with acrylics.
• Just as you would not want to over dilute conventional oil colors with solvents, you should not over dilute MAX with water.
• If you use natural bristle brushes, don't let them soak in water. The bristles can swell and weaken, ruining the brush.
• Paintings made with MAX should be varnished just like conventional oil paintings.