Allows to thin the paint while maintaining its initial appearance.
Purified oil, naturally a little amber, extracted from flax seeds. More drier and more resistant than most other oils. Tends to turn yellow over time. Preferably used with dark or slightly drying tones. Presents extreme transparency. Gives body to the dough. Avoid excess.
Allows you to significantly attenuate or smooth thin brush strokes.
Linseed oil polymerised in the absence of air. Full bodied, very bright, clear,
honey-like viscosity, medium made by heating pure linseed. Improves transparency, fluidity and smooths brushstrokes. Can be used straight but, due to high viscosity, it is preferable to thin with spirits. Excellent medium for glazing and detail work. Reduces possible appearance of cracking. Slows drying. Slightly yellowing. Favors gloss.
Linseed is the most widely used oil because when dry it forms the toughest, most resilient paint films.
Used in small quantities, it adds a soft, slippery quality when added to oil colours. The paint film will stay open and is easily moved or reworked for up to 24 hours.
Because linseed oils yellow or darken with time, some more dramatically than others, it is recommended that the use of linseed oil should be kept to a minimum as a medium to aid fluidity or transparency.
Further information on the use of refined linseed oil is available here.
Available in 100ml, 500ml and 1 litre.
Cold Pressed Linseed Oil has greater wetting power than refined linseed oils and is often recommended for hand milling of oil paints. When used to mill oil colours or even when mixed with prepared oil colours produces a pronounced stroke to the brushmark, so that strokes of different directions and application show a marked ‘suede’ effect.
Used even in small quantities, it adds a loose, slippery quality when added to oil colours. The paint film will stay open and is easily moved or reworked for up to 24 hours. Cold Pressed Linseed Oil creates a flexible paint film longer than any other artist’s drying oil.
Further information on the use of Cold Pressed Linseed Oil can be found here.
Available in 100ml, 500ml and 1 litre.
Stand Oil is a virtually non-yellowing drying oil. Thick and honey-like, it cannot be used without the addition of Distilled Gum Turpentine or equivalent solvent. It has pronounced levelling qualities and produces an enamel-like effect when mixed with oil paints.
Stand Oil based mediums will set-up to a tack that grabs any succeeding brush strokes. The wet, but tacky paint surface can be readily painted into without moving freshly applied paint. Excellent for controlled paint manipulation.
For further information on the use of Stand Oil is available here.
Available in 100ml, 500ml and 1 litre.
Used to reduce the consistency and to speed up the drying time of oil colours. Also improves gloss and transparency.
Available in 75ml and 250ml.
Extracted from poppy seeds. Used to reduce the consistency and speed up the drying time of oil colours. Also improves flow and transparency. Does not yellow with age and as such is traditionally used in more delicate colours. Not siccative.
Available in 75ml and 250ml.
For use with Winsor & Newton Water-Mixable Oil Paints. This oil reduces the consistency and improves flow of Artisan oil colours. It also increases gloss and transparency. Slows drying. Can be cleaned up with water.
