Oil Painting Mediums

Bob Ross Oil Mediums are designed especially for use with Bob Ross Oil Paints, including the Soft Oil Colors. Use them in the wet-on-wet techniques demonstrated in Bob Ross's books and video programs.

Da Vinci Artists' Oil Meduims are specially formulated for use with Da Vanici oil paints. Use these mediums to increase transparency, modify consistency, and accelerate drying time.

Gamblin offers a great range of contemporary mediums. Using today’s safer materials, they recreate the properties of traditional mediums. Galkyd Medium #1, Galkyd Lite, Galkyd Slow Dry, Cold Wax Medium, Gamsol Odorless Mineral Spirits, and Gamvar Varnish.

This sampler set of Gamblin’s Oil painting mediums is a great introduction to their range of contemporary mediums. Using today’s safer materials, they recreate the properties of traditional mediums. Set contains one 2ozsize bottle each of Gamblin’s Galky

Maimeri uses only the purest ingredients for the best guarantee of brilliance and vibrancy.

Marlene Medium removes undesired colors and is non-flammable. Use P.M. Solution for thinning Marshall's Photo Oils. Use Pre-Color Spray to pre-treat glossy photos or canvas to allow them to accept Marshall Photo Oils or Photo Oil Pencils.

Mix Da Vinci Alkyd Gel Quick Dry one to one with oil colors to accelerate drying time and increase color transparency. Colors will maintain a soft and creamy consistency.

Speeds up the drying time of linseed oil and stand oil coats. It's an aromatic-free blend of cobalt, barium and zinc octoates. Added in tiny quantities it helps linseed oil and stand oil coats to dry through and shortens dry times.

Reduce the drying time of oil colors. Drying Gel Medium leaves viscosity unchanged.

Weber's Japan Drier speeds the drying of slow drying colors. Only a small amount of Japan Drier should be used, since overuse of the drier causes darkening and cracking of the paint.

This mixture of purified linseed oil and Turpenoid is ideal for thinning oil colors or making painting mediums.

Imagine oil paintings that are dry to the touch overnight. It is possible when oil paint is mixed with this non-yellowing or darkening medium. It also plasticizes paint film to prevent cracking.

This pigment-free medium extends colors. Based on non-yellowing safflower oil, it dries quickly and is ideal for use with whites and light colors. Mixed with colors that are very rich in pigments, it reduces their cost without altering their consistency.

This full-strength, ready-to-use, synthetic resin gel produces transparent, full-bodied colors. Extends expensive oil colors, prevents color running, retains brush strokes, holds sharply defined detail, adds luminosity and brilliance, accelerates drying.

Dilutes oil color to speed drying time, also improves paint flow. Add it directly to the color in small quantities. Perfect for detail work.

Bronzing Medium is recommended for use with metallic bronzing powders. It produces a hardwearing metallic paint that can be applied to most any surface. Highly flammable.

Reduces the consistency of oil color without sacrificing richness, as solvents do. This thinner tends to yellow. Highly flammable.

An emulsion of linseed oil, mastic resin, gum arabic and black oil that improves paint handling while making colors richer, deeper and lustrous even when dry. It makes oil colors non-migratory, making it easier to paint details that will remain separate.

Sennelier Oil Binding Medium is ready to use and is compatible with all pigments traditionally used in oil paints. This thick, non-yellowing vegetable oil is specifically developed for grinding oil colors of optimum consistency.

Weber Liquiglaze is an excellent medium for fine detail, impasto, or glaze effects. It dries quickly, is resistant to yellowing, and provides a long lasting quality paint film. The consistency is that of a soft translucent gel, ideal for mixing.

Use Weber's Oil Painting Medium with oil paints when durability is desired. It imparts brilliance to colors and gives a pleasant consistency. Oil Painting Medium is prepared from refined linseed oil, gum damar, and turnpentine.

A stand linseed oil/petroleum distillate used to thin the consistency of oils and alkyds. Dries to flexible film, minimal tendency to yellow, wrinkle, or crack. Thin with mineral spirits.

This mixture of Damar Varnish, Linseed Oil, and mineral spirits reduces the consistency and slows the drying rate of oil and alkyd colors. It is useful as a medium for blending, glazing, stroke work, antiquing, and staining.

Dissolved yellow amber has allowed great works of art to stand the test of time. Blockx Amber Painting Solution imparts a rare luminosity, adding depth to your paintings. It has a lower concentration of dissolved amber than Blockx Amber Varnish.

Da Vinci's Copal Painting Medium Substitute is formulated to dilute oil paints in glazing applications, and for thin applications in general. It dries faster than linseed oil, but slower than alkyd resins.

A high-quality, graded natural resin that adds brilliance and luminosity to colors. Clear white crystals are used to make various traditional painting preparations, such as varnish and medium. Strain out impurities using Orange Terpene.

This medium has a rather heavy consistency resulting in a rich glaze finish. The addition of lead-free driers cobalt-zirconium-calcium octoates reduces the drying time.

These natural damar resin crystals are collected from fir trees. Crystals must be soaked in pure gum turpentine to produce traditional Damar Varnish, used on finished paintings as a transparent, removable high-gloss protective coating.

Van Eyck Gel is a mastic-based medium that allows the artist to superimpose oil colors rapidly, even when paint is fresh, without diluting the underlying coats. It fixes brush strokes, giving them a varnished, enamel finish.

Prepared from finest synthetic copal gum. Improves paint flow, and speeds drying. It makes a tough final varnish, giving excellent protection for finished paintings.

Weber's Copal Medium is excellent for glazing, thin or impasto painting, and wet-on-wet techniques. It may be thinned with Turpenoid or turpentine. Copal Medium is prepared from synthetic and natural resins, and refined turpentine.

Winsor & Newton's Liquin Fine Detail medium reproduces traditional copal medium for detail work, glazing, and smooth blending without brush marks. It dries to a gloss finish.

Weber's Salamander is a restorative for oil paintings, prepared from carefully selected essential oils and balsams. Apply to oil paintings to restore color brilliance.

Dissolves linseed oil oxidation and cleans soiled oil paintings. Contains an emulsified mixture of Copaiba balsam, dipentene, and pine oil with ammonia. Cleaner settles out in two layers. Thinning not recommended.

Max Grumbacher Oil Painting Mediums are two completely non-toxic formulas that can be freely used with Max paints without concern about proportions. Each enhances the water miscibility of Max or mixtures of Max with conventional oils.

A special linseed oil blend for use only with Duo Aqua Oil. Do not use regular linseed oil.

This medium was designed specifically to enhance the use of Van Gogh H2Oil colors. It is formulated with a vegetable oil-based binder, so thinning it with water is possible. This medium makes paint more transparent, enhancing gloss and improving flow.

Achieve all the techniques and styles of traditonal oil colors while using Winsor & Newton's Artisan Water-Mixable Oil Colors.

Adds translucency to oil paints, making them more brilliant. Also used as a final coat on dry paintings, metal sculpture, wood carvings, and antiques. May buff to gloss finish. Thins with turpentine.

Gamblin's Cold Wax Medium is a soft paste formulated to make oil colors thicker and more matte. Cold Wax Medium is made with beeswax, resin, and mineral spirits. It can also be used as a final varnish over a dry painting.

These small beads of naturally white unbleached beeswax can be used in making your own wax medium.