Mediums + Gesso

A general purpose liquid medium useful for creating glazes, extending colors, and increasing translucency. Has a unique property that promotes flow and leveling.What Fluid Medium Can DoCeracolors Mediums, Gels and Pastes offer art…

Lavender spike oil is a natural, low-toxic substitute for turpentine. It can be used as a solvent for oil painting and in egg-oil emulsion tempera recipes. Spike oil improves the handling of oil-based paints, because it promotes o…

Our safflower oil is expeller-pressed from safflower oilseeds (Carthamus tinctorius) cultivated in North America, and lightly refined. It is a clear, pale yellow oil that is odorless. As it yellows less than linseed oil it is good…

Discover the finest pure rabbit skin glue, made in the U.S. from 100% natural rabbit collagen. This high-quality, fine mesh granular glue dissolves easily in water, making it an ideal choice for gesso preparation, woodworking, and…

Rublev Oil Medium Dammar (500g) is a natural tree resin traditionally used in oil painting, varnish making, and encaustic techniques. Harvested from Dipterocarpaceae family trees in Indonesia, this ABC grade dammar gum is one of t…

span>Traditional Silverpoint Ground is a ready-to-use dry mix ground based on Cennini's 15th century recipe that provides the right abrasive surface for silver and other metal point drawing that is applied to paper or wood.

Rublev Oil Medium Oleogel (150ml) is a professional, solvent-free oil painting medium made from linseed oil and pyrogenic silica. This clear, pale amber gel increases transparency while adding a thixotropic body to oil, resin-oil,…

Rublev Oil Medium Oleoresgel (150ml) is a thixotropic oil painting medium made with linseed oil, alkyd resin, and pyrogenic silica. This pale amber gel increases transparency and adds body to oil paints, giving artists greater con…

Rublev Oil Medium Wilson’s Medium (150ml) is a clear, gel-like oil painting medium inspired by the 18th-century formula used by British landscape painter Richard Wilson (1714–1782) and reportedly by Sir Joshua Reynolds…

Add Ceracolors Gel to Ceracolors paint for thick, impasto-like applications of paint.Pastes differ from gels in that they are opaque and may contain calcite (chalk), bentonite (diatomaceous earth), fibers, clay or other fillers re…

Velázquez Medium is a professional oil painting medium made from finely ground calcite in bodied linseed oil. Designed to extend oil paints and modify their handling, it creates a “long” consistency—ideal …

Impasto Medium is an oil painting medium of finely ground calcite, silica and bentonite in bodied linseed oil. Use it to extend paint without altering the consistency, making oil colors 'short' and buttery for impastos. Stiffer th…

Epoxide Oil is a dicyclopentadiene copolymer linseed oil. It is a fast drying oil with good alkali resistance. The copolymer of linseed oil and dicyclopentadiene provides a new vehicle that can be added to paints low in volatile o…

Rublev Oil Medium Clove Oil (4 fl oz / 118ml) is a pure, redistilled essential oil derived from the dried leaves of the clove tree (Eugenia caryophyllata). Containing approximately 85% eugenol, a natural antioxidant, this oil has …

Rublev Oil Medium Impasto Putty (8 fl oz / 237ml) is a stiff oil painting medium made from finely ground calcite, barite, and bentonite in bodied linseed oil. Stronger than Rublev’s Impasto Medium or Velázquez Medium,…

Dark drying oil or black oil is a fast drying oil made by heating linseed oil with lead oxide (litharge) and used in historical oil painting. The lead (metal basis) content of our dark drying oil is about 3% by weight.This is the …

span>Rublev Colours Tempera Ground is formulated with a polymer emulsion that contains high levels of titanium dioxide, calcium carbonate, and wollastonite to produce an easily sanded surface. The surface is very absorbent and spe…

Rublev Oil Medium Walnut Oil Gel (150ml) is a thixotropic oil painting medium made from walnut oil and pyrogenic silica. This clear, pale amber gel adds transparency and body to oil, resin-oil, or alkyd paints, making it a versati…

An easy way to make real gesso. This is not an acrylic "gesso" mix. It's the real thing: hide glue and whiting (chalk). But we've made it real easy: Mix equal amounts of warm water and the Easy Gesso Extra-Fine powder, wait a few …

Wilson's Medium is a clear, gel-like oil based on the 18th century oil painting medium of thickened linseed oil, turpentine and beeswax used by the English landscape painter, Richard Wilson (1 August 1714 - 15 May 1782), who may f…

Oleogel is a thixotropic painting medium made with linseed oil and pyrogenic silica. Oleogel is a clear pale amber gel that adds transparency and thixotropic body to oil, resin-oil or alkyd paint. Add directly to your paint to giv…

span>Pale drying oil is perfect for making oil paints dry faster, yellowish in color. It is derived from a processed linseed oil from selected flax seed.

These prills of white beeswax derived from a natural source, bee apiaries in North America, that is naturally bleached to a soft, pleasing white color.Beeswax is used as a protective coating (varnish) in painting, as a paint binde…

Venetian Medium is an oil-painting medium based on the research that sixteenth century Venetian painters added powdered glass to their paint. Venetian Medium contains leaded crystal glass powder, the palest bodied linseed oil, sun…

CAUTION: This product contains lead. Read the Material Safety Data Sheet for more information.Rublev Lead Oil Ground is a blend of white pigments and linseed oil for a semi-absorbent ground ideal for oil painting. It dries within …

Rublev Oil Paint Medium Velázquez Medium (16 fl oz) is a professional-quality, calcite-rich medium made with finely ground calcite in bodied linseed oil. Designed to extend oil paints and adjust their working properties, it…

Impasto Medium is an oil painting medium of finely ground calcite, silica and bentonite in bodied linseed oil. Use it to extend paint without altering the consistency, making oil colors 'short' and buttery for impastos. Stiffer th…

Rublev Colours Sun-Thickened Linseed Oil is made by exposing raw, cold-pressed linseed oil to sunlight in shallow tanks covered with clear glass and exposed to the atmosphere for a period of one month. Exposure to sunlight lighte…

Rublev Spike Oil (236ml) is a natural, low-toxicity alternative to turpentine, long valued by traditional and contemporary oil painters. Derived from lavender, this historical solvent dates back to the fifteenth century and is pri…

Underpainting Lead White (also known as flake white or Cremnitz white) This is the ideal white to use in your underpainting, because it dries within an hour or two. Mix with any oil color and apply as your underpainting to dr…

span>Sun-Bleached Linseed Oil is a fast-drying oil used as a medium or added to homemade mediums.

Oleogel is a thixotropic painting medium made with linseed oil and pyrogenic silica. Oleogel is a clear pale amber gel that adds transparency and thixotropic body to oil, resin-oil or alkyd paint. Add directly to your paint to giv…

CAUTION: This product contains lead. Read the Material Safety Data Sheet for more information.Rublev Lead Oil Ground is a blend of white pigments and linseed oil for a semi-absorbent ground ideal for oil painting. It dries within …

Rublev Oil Medium Canada Balsam (250ml) is a traditional oil painting medium made from Canada balsam, pale-bodied linseed oil, and lavender spike oil. This historic formula enhances color brilliance, increases gloss, and improves …