About oil paints...

It DOES dry... eventually, from memory it takes days... even weeks to fully dry . I am no expert, but you might try a google search first of all, they tend to bring up pretty useful material. I dunno if there is something you can mix them with to make them dry faster, but then the benefit of oils is supposed to be their slow-drying-ness which means that you can push the paint around and correct your mistakes without removing paint but just pushing it away from where it wasn't supposed to be. It also allows for great blending and gradients, but since that's not really what you are after....

Mixing oils with Liquid Sculpy might mean that the coating will be slower to dry, but it should still dry. Would you be able to do a test before doing the actual doll? Where did you hear about mixing oil paint in the Sculpy? I would def. do a google search.

And remember, kids: Never paint resin with oilpaints and oil-based products - They STAIN!!

 

Depending on how you apply your oils it can take YEARS to fully dry on a canvas. So I'm not sure how long it would take for it to dry in the way you're talking about.

 

Ahhhh... Well can I make a suggestion: My b/f uses spray-putty in a spray-gun (sorta like a big airbrush attached to a compressor) when he is fixing dints and rust-holes in old car bodies. He sprays and sands several times before spraying with undercoat and actual car-colour. I think Donn said he had used something similar to even out the colour and spot imperfections. If you ask him he might have more detailed information on the subject. It it certainly save you the waiting for oil-paint to dry.

 

Oil paints do dry, there are also alkyd oil paint which is faster drying ( it has a resin of some sort added to it) DO NOT USE WATER MIXABLE! Water mixable oils take a huge amount of extra time to dry! I did a very thin painting on heavy paper with them, which would dry to touch in about 2-3 days with regular oils....well the water mixable oils took nearly a YEAR to get dry to touch, and they where still tacky! I found the painting recently and now it is fully cured.

Any way an interesting thing about oil paints, diffrent colors take dramatically diffrent amounts of time to dry! Some colors only take a couple days, but a diffrent color applied in teh same way can take a couple weeks!

Oh! And if your curious, oil paints dry because they are made with lin seed oil, which is a drying oil (it will harden into a film on its own if left out)