I fashioned a 4′ x 4′ x 1′ chamber with four light sockets, with 60 W incandescent bulbs, fastened to the top, into which I place oil studies or paintings for overnight drying. The temperature will average about 90-95 degrees F (like a summer day in Florence during the Renaissance, ha, ha) depending on the distance to the bulbs. It dries wet paintings more readily without the use of driers and if I repaint every four days or so, the paint film will be better “cured” than if the painting had been drying for the same time on a shelf.
Now that I’ve been using this method for about 20 years, is there likely any damage done to the paint layer that I have been creating, now that I’ve already done it? So far, I cannot see any apparent problems.
Thank you,
Richard
