I buy Gamsol by the gallon.
It's about $37/gallon plus tax online, $47/gallon in-store (but Blick web-matches) and it takes me over a year to go through it.
IMPORTANT SOLVENT NOTE: NEVER dispose of your solvent!! Re-use it! Put your dirty solvent in a container and let it sit for a few days. All the pigment will settle to the bottom and you will have "clean" solvent. It will still be yellow because there is oil, resin, etc in it, so don't use it as a painting medium but it is absolutely fine as a brush rinse.
Gamsol is expensive but really is the safest solvent out there, and the only one that can fly on airplanes.
I LOVE Gamsol. I will never be a solvent-free painter.
But I have been unnecessarily losing solvent lately and it's getting annoying.
Not only because it's wasteful, but it's messing up my paint tubes.
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Solvent Transportation
When I go out plein airing with my small setup, I just use the small plastic containers Ben includes with his boxes. They are great. Perfect size etc. On my small setup especially, I don't need very much solvent.
But I have been taking leftover paint home lately which I keep inside my box for safe transport. So my solvent containers have been going in the ziplock bag with all my paint tubes.
And they have been leaking.
I think it might be time to retire the plastic containers. 2 of them are 11 years old, one is 3 years old.
They are not sealing anymore.
The labels on my paint tubes are coming off and getting sticky from the tape I used to stick them back on. Also, they all turned grey-green. It's not nice.
I do have a large sealing stainless steel solvent jug, but it's too big for my small setup.
So I finally got another one, a supercute mini one that will be perfect in my Belly River box.
It hasn't been out yet, but hopefully will this weekend!!!

If you have been using a plastic container for your solvent I would say it is certainly time to get new ones.
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