Update on test piece #1:
so it took basically two whole days for that thin smear of oil paint to "dry"
by "dry" I mean that there's a layer of dried pigment/paint sitting on top of the wood whereas the danish oil has penetrated and sunk below it, so to speak, because that's what it's supposed to do. the colour isn't rubbing off easily, but it is rubbing off. I have yet to reapply more coats of untinted danish oil to it and see how it fares.
So um.. partial success, so far? I'm not really sure. Tru oil isn't supposed to sink into the wood as much as danish oil does. Tru oil is supposed to build on the surface so I think it'll dry up into a harder layer with the pigment suspended in it and I won't have to worry about the colour rubbing off. Subsequent layers of tru oil should just seal it all up under a hardened coat of varnish/oil.
Test 2, I'm going to try to wipe on/wipe off many layers of coloured oil and see how that goes. by wipe on/wipe off I mean wipe on and then wipe off excess. It still transfers the colour, but I'll just have to wait for each coat to dry before adding more oil and colour on the next coats.
After that I have to try a different method on test 3 - applying the paints directly to the wood without mixing them in oil, then after the paint is applied, cover in oil. I don't really like this idea as I'm not really sure how the danish oil and paints are going to behave.
so it took basically two whole days for that thin smear of oil paint to "dry"
by "dry" I mean that there's a layer of dried pigment/paint sitting on top of the wood whereas the danish oil has penetrated and sunk below it, so to speak, because that's what it's supposed to do. the colour isn't rubbing off easily, but it is rubbing off. I have yet to reapply more coats of untinted danish oil to it and see how it fares.
So um.. partial success, so far? I'm not really sure. Tru oil isn't supposed to sink into the wood as much as danish oil does. Tru oil is supposed to build on the surface so I think it'll dry up into a harder layer with the pigment suspended in it and I won't have to worry about the colour rubbing off. Subsequent layers of tru oil should just seal it all up under a hardened coat of varnish/oil.
Test 2, I'm going to try to wipe on/wipe off many layers of coloured oil and see how that goes. by wipe on/wipe off I mean wipe on and then wipe off excess. It still transfers the colour, but I'll just have to wait for each coat to dry before adding more oil and colour on the next coats.
After that I have to try a different method on test 3 - applying the paints directly to the wood without mixing them in oil, then after the paint is applied, cover in oil. I don't really like this idea as I'm not really sure how the danish oil and paints are going to behave.