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Roughly how many days can an oil painting remain workable, allowing wet-into-wet blending?
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- Far longer than tempera or fresco.
- On the order of a couple of days, depending on thickness and additives.
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Why
On the order of two days, varying widely with thickness, pigment and medium added. The precise figure matters less than the comparison: tempera gives minutes and fresco gives hours, so oil's working window is larger by one to two orders of magnitude.
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