OIL MEDIUMS

This is a prepared medium that thins the colour consistency, improves flow and wetting, slows drying, increases the durability of the film and is resistant to yellowing. Artists' Painting Medium is well suited for 'oiling out'.

Winsor & Newton Artisan Impasto Medium is a specialized medium for artists working with water mixable oils. It is designed to enhance the texture and body of the paint, allowing artists to create thick and impasto effects.

This medium increases the viscosity and imparts a buttery consistency to the paint, enabling artists to build up layers, create textured brushstrokes, and add three-dimensional elements to their artwork. Winsor & Newton Artisan Impasto Medium is easy to use, dries to a durable and flexible finish, and maintains the water-mixable properties of the paints. It is an excellent choice for artists looking to explore the expressive possibilities of impasto techniques in their water mixable oil paintings.

This 75ml bottle of high-grade linseed stand oil provides artists with a reliable medium for oil painting. Its superior quality enhances drying time, promotes optimal flow, and imparts a durable and glossy finish to artworks, delivering professional results.

Improves flow of oil colours.

Excellent for masking mediums and glazing.

Smoothes brush strokes.

Slows drying and gives a tough elastic, pale film.

Slows drying rate while increasing durability of the film. Gives smooth enamel effect finish with no brush marks. Ideal for glazing and fine detail if mixed with solvent.

This is a fast drying medium that improves the flow and speeds the drying of Artisan oil colours, smoothes brushwork and increases gloss and transparency. It is excellent for glazing and producing fine detail and is resistant to yellowing.

This is a very popular medium as it speeds the drying of oil colour by about 50%, allowing further layers to be applied more quickly. The formulation has been improved and this has helped to wet the colour better. It thins the colour and increases gloss and transparency. When painting in layers it can substitute linseed oil and be combined with water and/ or thinner to maintain 'fat over lean.

The Zest-it Clear Painting Medium is designed to facilitate the flow of oil paint, level out the brush strokes and for glazing. The Clear Painting Medium can be of assistance to both the Traditional oil painter and the Wet-on-wet artist. It is a mix of Zest-it and Linseed Stand Oil without added Varnish, it also makes the paint it is used with dry faster.

For the Traditional oil painter. The Zest-it Clear Painting Medium is very useful for applying glazes to the painting. It dries clear and quite quickly, it will also lift any dull parts of a painting giving an overall balance to the surface finish. It does not contain any varnish, this keeps the dried glaze as a more flexible film and in keeping with the rest of the paintings structure. The last glaze can of course be worked into before it dries to completion.

Often when a painting has been drying for sometime dull areas show up. Before starting work on the painting again the artist often wants the 'wet look' back, this is an aid to judging the colour with more accuracy. Using the Clear Painting medium for this gives back the 'wet look', can be painted into and keeps the integrity of the painting. Very useful and a little goes a long way.

For the Wet-on-Wet painter. The Zest-it Clear Painting Medium gives an ideal base for the start of a canvas painting, allowing the artists to mix and blend colours on the canvas and can be used throughout the painting. The Clear Painting Medium can also be coloured before starting a wet-on-wet painting, just add a small amount of oil paint to an amount of the medium and mix together before using to wet the background - only a very thin coat is needed. The medium will stay workable for about twelve hours.

For the Tole or One-stroke painter. The Zest-it Clear Painting Medium is excellent for blending colours together when double loading a brush for one-stroke painting, which of course is a wet-on-wet painting method when using oils. When double loading a brush, mix a small amount of ZCPM with each pile of paint, then load into each side of the brush and blend on the palette. The painting medium also makes blending the applied colour easy.

The Clear Painting Medium can also be used to thin oil paint to an ink consistency for use with a dip pen nib, the oil written words will have a gloss and slightly raised profile.

Fine Grain Marble Dust is a UK-made, high-purity calcium carbonate (100 mesh) ideal for adding body and texture to your artwork. Mix it with cold wax to build impasto marks, blend into gesso or PVA for a grittier painting surface, or apply it to paper with gelatine, gesso or PVA to create a beautifully “toothy” ground for pastels. Chemically inert and non-hazardous, it has been used for centuries in traditional gesso and other painting preparations.

Reduces the consistency of oil colour and slows down drying time. In its raw state, it gives colour a high gloss. Diluted 50/50 with Turpentine or Low Odour Thinners, it creates an excellent medium for most types of painting.