Mediums + Gesso

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…

Rublev Oil Paint Medium Safflower Oil - 16 fl oz is a pale, low-odour drying oil for artists who want a binder that yellows less than linseed oil when making whites and light colours. This safflower oil is expeller-pressed from hi…

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…

Rublev Colours Traditional Silverpoint Ground 500g is a ready to use dry mix ground inspired by Cennino Cennini’s 15th century recipe, made to create the ideal surface for silverpoint and metalpoint drawing. Once prepared, i…

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…

Ceracolors Gel Medium Heavy Body 8oz is a thick, wax-based gel medium made to give Ceracolors water-soluble wax paint serious body for impasto-style painting. Use it to build raised marks, hold brush and palette knife texture, and…

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 …

Rublev Colours Tempera Ground is an absorbent, sandable primer made specifically for traditional tempera painting. Formulated with a vinyl acetate ethylene (VAE) polymer emulsion and a high pigment volume concentration of titanium…

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…

Rublev Oil Paint Medium Easy Gesso Extra-Fine - 1kg is a simple way to make genuine traditional gesso (glue ground) for artists who want the classic, silky surface used on historical panels. This is not acrylic “gesso.&rdquo…

Rublev Oil Paint Medium Wilson’s Medium - 8 fl oz is a clear, gel-like oil painting medium inspired by an 18th century formula associated with British landscape painting. Traditionally made from thickened linseed oil, turpen…

Rublev Colours Oleogel Oil Painting Medium (8 fl oz / 236 ml) is a solvent-free gel medium designed to extend oil colour, increase transparency for glazing, and improve flow without making paint runny. Made from linseed oil + pyro…

Rublev Pale Drying Oil is a fast-drying, pale linseed oil medium made from well-settled, filtered raw linseed oil pressed from selected North American flax seed. The oil is gently heated in closed kettles to slightly polymerise it…

Rublev Oil Paint Medium White Beeswax - 1kg is a premium studio beeswax supplied as clean, easy-to-melt prills (pastilles), naturally derived from North American apiaries and naturally bleached to a soft white. White beeswax is th…

Bring a classic “Old Masters” glazing look to your oil paintings with Venetian Medium — a fast-setting oil painting medium inspired by research into 16th-century Venetian techniques of adding finely powdered glas…

Rublev Colours Lead Alkyd Ground is a professional oil & alkyd primer made from a carefully balanced blend of calcite (calcium carbonate), lead white, and titanium white in a smooth, leveling alkyd binder. The result is a semi…

Rublev Colours Canada Balsam is a pale yellow, viscous oleoresin (with a faint greenish cast) sourced from the balsam fir tree (Abies balsamea) and related species. Famous in both traditional painting practice and optical work, it…

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 Sun-Thickened Linseed Oil from Rublev Colours is a traditional, high-viscosity oil medium made by sun-aging raw, cold-pressed linseed oil in shallow, glass-covered tanks while exposed to air for one year. Sun exposure …

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…

Rublev Underpainting Lead White is a brilliant, opaque white made for fast, reliable oil painting underlayers. Often compared to flake white or Cremnitz white, this mixed white combines lead white (PW1), titanium white (PW6), and …

Rublev Colours Sun-Bleached Linseed Oil is a premium artist-grade linseed oil medium made by exposing raw, cold-pressed linseed oil to sunlight in shallow tanks under clear glass for more than one month. This traditional sun-bleac…

Meet Rublev Colours Oleogel Oil Painting Medium (16 fl oz / 473 ml) — a solvent-free gel medium designed to extend oil colour, increase transparency for glazing, and improve flow without making paint watery or runny. Oleogel…

Rublev Colours Lead Alkyd Ground is a professional, semi-absorbent white ground designed for oil and alkyd painting, formulated to deliver strong adhesion, excellent leveling, and blister/crack resistance. Made with a high pigment…

Rublev Colours Canada Balsam is a pale yellow, syrupy oleoresin with a faint greenish cast, tapped from the balsam fir (Abies balsamea) and related species. It dries to a clear, transparent film and remains amorphous when dry, mea…