How long will the paint take to dry?
1. There are so many kinds of paint available. How do you choose? It’s not as complicated as it seems. All paint pretty much consists of three things. These are: • pigment or tint that gives paint its colour • binder, the paint itself minus the colour. This is what carries the tint and dries to make a protective film on the painted surface • the diluent or reducer or thinner. It’s what you thin the paint down with to make it a workable consistency. So, just three things: 1) tint 2) binder 3) reducer. That’s it. 2. What is oil paint and what is latex paint? This is just a question of which binder and reducer you use. Originally oil paint was made with linseed oil as a binder. (Hence “oil” paint, duh!) You reduce it with mineral spirits. (Paint thinners, turpentine, etc.) Latex paint is a Canadian invention. (Swell with patriotic pride!) CIL invented it in the 1940’s. It uses a resin from the rubber tree called “latex” as the binder. The advantage is latex paint can be reduced with water
