Mediums + Gesso

Rublev Colours Balsam Essential Oil Medium is composed of Canada balsam, pale bodied linseed oil and spike oil. Add to oil paint for enamel-like effects (gloss and greater color saturation), to achieve glow in glazes and to facili…

A translucent gel medium that reduces flow and thickens water colours and gouache to give an impasto effect.

A liquid acrylic polymer emulsion which dries to a hard, stiff film. When applied over a fabric support, such as cotton, linen or silk, the GAC 400 will serve to dramatically stiffen the support. This allows the artist to transfor…

A liquid acrylic polymer emulsion that is the hardest and least flexible of Golden acrylics. Useful for increasing film hardness and reducing tack. Improves adhesion to non-porous surfaces; however some surfaces, such as glass and…

MSA Varnish with UVLS (Gloss, Satin, Matte) is a Mineral Spirit based Acrylic resin system that forms a tougher, less permeable film than water-borne acrylic varnishes and can be applied to acrylic, oil and alkyd painted surfaces.…

Thicker consistency than Golden Heavy Body Acrylic colors. Golden's thickest gels, along with the High Solid Gels. Blend with colors to increase body. Excellent for holding peaks and impasto techniques. Dries translucent.Golden Ge…

Introducing the Derivan Polymer Gloss Varnish, a top-tier water-based solution for enhancing and protecting your artworks. This 2-liter container offers ample supply for multiple projects, ensuring long-lasting use. Formulated wit…

A quick drying, semi-gloss medium which thickens slowly and extends tube colour retaining crisp textures and brush marks without any visible leveling. Speeds drying (touch dry in 1-6 days depending on colour & film thickness).…

A mixture of oil and wax. Mix with oil colour to achieve a translucent effect. Not suitable for heavy impasto. Imparts a satin finish. This product is marked as a dangerous/hazardous item. Due to this fact, extra freight char…

Art Spectrum Oil Prime is unique oil/acrylic resin blend. The high linseed oil content allows artists' oil colours to crosslink for natural adhesion. Non-toxic. Clean up and thin with water. Suitable for canvas, hardboard and maso…

A satin matt varnish. Can be rubbed and buffed to a sheen with a lint-free cloth. Use Gum Turpentine as solvent. This product is marked as a dangerous/hazardous item. Due to this fact, extra freight charges will be calculated…

Quick Drying. Becomes liquid when mixed into oil paint. Suitable for moderate impasto and glazing. Dries with a soft sheen.  This product is marked as a dangerous/hazardous item. Due to this fact, extra freight charges w…

Glue sizing, followed by oil painting, is the traditional method of preparing a canvas for oil painting. The size is made by dissolving 1 part Rabbit Skin Glue to 10-15 parts cold water. Soak until all the water has been absorbed …

White or colorless flammable oil or wax obtained in the distilling of petroleum. Paraffin is often used as a material for modeling and in such wax-resist techniques as batik, either as a substitute for bee's wax, or as a supplemen…

A brillant white, flexible painting ground for canvas, paper, hardboard and masonary. Not recommended for permanent oil painting.

Dissolve Damar Crystals in Gum Turpentine to make Damar Varnish. This varnish imparts a rich, glassy effect to glazes and is also used as a basis for making some painting mediums.

Natural Pigments Sun-Bleached Linseed Oil is made by exposing raw, cold-pressed linseed oil to sunlight in shallow enamel trays covered with clear glass but exposed to the atomosphere for a period of less than one month. No driers…

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…

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.

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…

Vel?zquez Medium is an oil painting medium of finely ground calcite in bodied linseed oil. Use it to extend paint and alter its consistency, making oil colors 'long'* for finer detail and impastos. Softer than Impasto Medium, this…

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…

Clove Oil from the leaf of the plant by steam distillation. Use to prevent skin forming on oil paint. Add to egg tempera, emulsions and glues to prevent mold and bacteria. Clove oil is composed primarily of eugenol.

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

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…

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

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…

Vel?zquez Medium is an oil painting medium of finely ground calcite in bodied linseed oil. Use it to extend paint and alter its consistency, making oil colors 'long'* for finer detail and impastos. Softer than Impasto Medium, this…

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…

span>Underpainting Lead White (also known as flake white or Cremnitz white) is a mixed white with lead white, titanium white, and chalk ground in oil-alkyd to make a brilliant, opaque white that is smooth, dries very quickly to a …