Does drying time have an impact on the performance of linseed oil paint vs. modern acrylic paint?
There are buildings in North America and Europe that have been known to have linseed oil on the exterior from 300 years ago. They are still intact today because of the linseed oil’s ability to prevent water from soaking into the wood surface. Because the organic, cleaned, linseed oil is very close to the natural oil in wood, the linseed oil has an exceptional ability to preserve wood over a very long time. Cleaned, boiled linseed oil will never mix with water and will never trap water making paint failure impossible. Linseed oil is far superior to acrylic paint when it comes to preserving wood over a very long time. Linseed paint does not cure nearly as fast or hard as conventional petroleum-based oil paint or acrylic paint. A longer drying time allows the Linseed paint to penetrate into the substrate avoiding any moisture from getting trapped. Linseed paint is an integrated part of the wood. The linseed paint stays flexible and moves with the seasonal changes of the wood. It also does
