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(More customer reviews)Though they advertise this damar resin as being good for encaustic painting (I'm sure it is), I'm using it for my oil paints, which also involves heating the resin with linseed or walnut oil.
You can also use the resin for MAKING your own damar varnish, though I also recommend against using turpentine. A great substitute for turpentine (with MUCH lower toxicity and the smell is more pleasant in my opinion) is D-Limonene, which is just as effective as turpentine for the purposes of painting. Drop the resin in a fine mesh bag, drop it in to a jar full of D-limonene, then let it sit for a few days. Any solids remaining will stay in the bag. You'll get WAY higher quality varnish (as the damar varnish you can buy is WAYYY too thinned out, and they usually use turpentine as the thinner).
Anyhow, aside from all this goodness: GREAT price, I'm used to paying this much for a much smaller amount from an art supply store. Can't wait to get this to my studio tomorrow!
Other great uses for this damar resin: Boil with stand oil, makes for a great impasto medium (Non-toxic, unlike synthetic impasto media like Liquin). Heated with walnut oil (and thinned out with d-limonene) makes a great wood finish.
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Damar Resin...Enkaustikos uses Damar resin to produce a harder more durable paint film. Damar in combination with beeswax produces a paint film with a higher index of refraction. This is why encaustic colors appear so luminous. Enkaustikos uses No. 1 Singapore Damar Resin which is harvested from trees which grow in the East Indies. Damar Resin is a sticky sap that oozes from trees found in the East Indies. As the sap dries and solidifies it captures bugs dried leaves and tree bark. Damar Resin arrives to us in crystal form along with all of these imbedded impurities. This must be filtered out to make a usable product. Damar Resin is a very people and earth friendly ingredient. Damar resin is approved by the FDA for coating fruit and vegetable crates. Many encaustic recipes incorrectly suggest that an artist should use damar varnish. This is not a good idea because damar varnish is made with turpentine. We would like to emphasize that our wax paints are made with damar resin and not damar varnish. We heat filter out the impurities without the use of solvents. We do not recommend working with damar varnish because it contains turpentine which is not only flammable but also gives off unhealthy fumes.
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