Refined Linseed Oil Highest quality Dutch linseed oil used as a medium for oil colours. Increases gloss and transparency. Adds a soft, ‘slippery’ quality when added to oil colours. Made by crushing steam heated flax seed to produce greater quantities of oil than in cold pressing. Treated with alkalis post-pressing and water washed to remove…
Cold Pressed Linseed Oil Natural drying oil used as a traditional binder for grinding oil colours. Has increased wetting power and imparts flexibility to paint films. Made by crushing the flax seed under great pressure. Low yield of oil from the seed using this extraction method. Removes the pronounced stroke to the brushmark, so that…
Cold Pressed Walnut Oil Natural drying oil used as a traditional binder for grinding oil colours. Has increased wetting power and imparts flexibility to paint films. Made by crushing the walnut seed under great pressure. Low yield of oil from the seed using this extraction method. Removes the pronounced stroke to the brushmark, so that…
Refined Safflower Oil Very pale, Refined safflower oil. Has little tendency to yellow and is often recommended for use with whites, blues and pale colours. Adds a slippery quality to oil colours. Slow drying. Care should be taken when used for underpainting. Drying time: 6-9 days to touch dry. Product Code: 031 Refined Safflower Oil…
Cold Pressed Safflower Oil Natural drying oil used as a traditional binder for grinding oil colours. Has increased wetting power and imparts flexibility to paint films. Made by crushing the safflower seed under great pressure, Low yield of oil from the seed using this extraction method. Safflower, like all artists’ drying oils, harden by absorbing…
Stand Oil Non-yellowing oil for use in all oil mediums. Thick and honey-like oil, gives enamel-like qualities to paint. Should be diluted with solvent. Dries to a tough flexible film. Stand oil is manufactured by heating, in the absence of oxygen, linseed oil to approximately 570° F. The linseed oil polymerizes, that is, molecules of…
