Linseed and Drying Oils

Linseed oil increases the brilliance and transparency of colors, and helps to eliminate brush strokes. Da Vinci's oil mediums are formulated especially for Da Vinci oil paints but can be used with any oil paint.

This very light, purified linseed oil is made without additives. It's used as a fine oil painting medium, or as a raw material ingredient.

Gamblin's Refined Linseed Oil is pressed from American flax seeds and refined using an alkalai process. This low acid oil is about as light and pure as it gets. Use linseed oil to thin oil colors and increase their brilliance and transparency.

Our professional select alkali-refined linseed oil provides excellent blending and adhesion for the professional artist.

Maimeri Linseed Oil, a high-viscosity, alkalai refined oil, spreads out the brush stroke, reducing brush marks. It increases the brightness and glossiness of colors. Like all linseed oils, it has a tendency to yellow. It's housed in a glass bottle.

A refined, white linseed oil which contains no free mineral acids, lead, or artificial dryers. It serves to diminish the thickness of paint. The consistency is thinner than that of sun-thickened linseed (stand oil), and the oil may darken with age.

Weber Linseed Oil is widely used in diluting oil or alkyd colors. It is also used in preparing painting mediums, and is even good for cleaning brushes. This fine quality, purified and refined linseed oil is pressed from flaxseed.

Natural oil of low viscosity, pressed from flax seeds without heat. Regular heated linseed oil lacks the purity and clarity of cold-pressed oils.

Gamblin's Cold Pressed Linseed Oil is pressed from flax seeds in Canada without using heat or chemicals. Use linseed oil to thin oil colors and increase brilliance and transparency. Linseed oil increases the tendency of lighter colors to yellow.

Cold-pressed linseed oil is a natural oil of low viscosity. It is pressed from flax seeds without the use of heat. Cold-pressed linseed oil offers greater purity and clarity.

Poppy Oil is a clear oil medium to mix with and reduce white and lighter colours. It is less inclined to yellow than linseed oil, but is slower drying. Enhances gloss and flow, but too high a proportion slows the drying of oil colors.

Slows down drying time. Especially useful for painters using "wet into wet" techniques. Add 10% by volume to slow down the drying time of Gamblin Galkyd painting mediums. 8 oz (237 ml) bottle. AP non-toxic.

Poppy oil has extreme purity and lightfastness. It will not yellow, and it dries slowly. Similar to safflower oil, it is suited for whites and very light colors.

Da Vinci's Safflower Oil is pure and refined, useful for diluting white oil paints. Using safflower oil to dilute whites, rather than linseed oil, will help reduce yellowing.

Use safflower oil to soften oil colors and make oil paints more fluid. It has similar characteristics to poppy seed oil. It won't yellow, it dries slowly, and it is particularly suitable for white and light colors.

The finest first-pressed safflower oil, purified to lower acidity while increasing clarity. Use to increase oil fluidity and transparency, or in medium recipes. Won’t yellow or alter pigments’ natural hue as linseed does.

A light-colored, pre-polymerized linseed oil, adds elasticity and moisture to the paint coat, improving flow and leveling of paints. It has less of a tendency to yellow than plain linseed oil.

Gamblin's Stand Oil, manufactured by heating a pure refined linseed oil, is an oil that wets pigments well. Stand oil is linseed oil that has been polymerized by heating. Thicker than cold pressed or alkalai refined oils. Has almost no tendency to yellow.

Maimeri Stand Oil is a high viscosity linseed oil, polymerized through heating, that imparts a very glossy texture and allows you to spread out your brushstrokes. Stand oil has very little tendency to yellow. It's housed in a glass bottle.

This pale-colored, heavy-bodied, polymerized linseed oil improves the characteristics of painting mediums. It's slower drying than conventional linseed oil, and the performance results include a more durable film with less tendency to after-yellowing.

Mix this pale, viscous oil with turpentine or white mineral spirits to improve the flow of your oil colors - it will retard drying and imparts a tough, elastic finish.

A very heavy-bodied oil that is thick like honey, wets pigments well, and produces a paint that flows and levels easily to reduce brush marks. Sun-thickened linseed oil makes the brush more controllable.

Faster drying than Stand Oil, this pale, heavy-bodied oil has the properties of a sun-thickened oil. It’s superior to other heat-treated linseed oils when used with painting mediums.

M. Graham Oil Mediums offer the following excellent quality mediums. Use their specially developed, non-toxic Walnut Alkyd Medium or their classic Walnut Oil.

Increases the brightness of colors. It has similar properties to linseed oil, but it won't yellow as much. Good drying power.