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Grumbacher 531 Acrylic Transparentizer Gel is a full-bodied acrylic painting medium designed to increase the transparency of semi-transparent and transparent acrylic colors while maintaining the consistency of tube colors.

Grumbacher is known for the high quality of its thick-formula gesso. Use it to prepare canvas, wood, untempered pressed wood, cardboard, plaster, concrete, and masonry for painting with oil or acrylic colors. This may be thinned with water or tinted with acrylic paint to create a colored ground.

This is a flexible, durable paste for creating textured surfaces to be over-painted with oil or acrylic paints. Apply it to canvas, wood, cardboard, plaster, concrete, masonry, and other surfaces.

These artist-grade acrylic mediums can be used to alter paint characteristics such as flow, transparency, gloss, and drying time for a virtually endless array of creative effects.

Extend the working time of your acrylic paints with Grumbacher Artists' Acrylic Retarder. This slow-drying additive may be mixed directly into acrylic colors or with other painting mediums in ratios of up to 30% to volume. For the longest drying time, use the maximum percentage of retarder to color or medium.

Grumbacher Academy Acrylics are a line of collegiate-grade, medium bodied acrylic paints available in an array of brilliant colors, including the most sought-after traditional colors, process colors, metallic colors, and iridescent colors.

These student grade brushes for oil and acrylic combine quality craftsmanship at an affordable price. They're particularly matched to the Grumbacher Academy Oil and Acrylic paints. Brushes feature deeply flagged tips and extra long bristles.

Made of student-grade white nylon synthetic fibers and are superb for oil and acrylic work. They're soft-bristled, sleek, and ideal for any acrylic technique, but they excel at fine detail work and applications where minimizing strokes is a must.

These student grade brushes for watercolor combine quality craftsmanship at an affordable price. They're particularly matched to the Grumbacher Academy Watercolors. Bristles are soft white nylon, ensuring even strokes and excellent color carrying.

Grumbacher Black Diamond Brushes allow you to hold sharper edges and achieve more consistent color laydown thanks to unbleached, un-dyed Black Hog Bristle bristles with plenty of natural flags. The brushes feature soft, non-slip handles and nickel-plated brass ferrules with a sleek black finish.

Made of four diameters of durable intermediate-grade Taklon filaments, Grumbacher Bristlette brushes stand up to abuse during oil and acrylic painting, and are especially well-suited for acrylic paints and glazing.

These brushes contain seven different professional-grade mixed synthetic filaments with natural flagged tips and interlocked construction. They are stiff enough to push heavy-body acrylics and oil, yet supple enough for the most delicate glazes.

Grumbacher's signature line of professional oil and acrylic brushes are made of Chungking hog bristle. Natural flags and interlocked construction preserve the natural curve of the bristle.

This golden Taklon line of professional watercolor brushes features strength, durability, and spring similar to sable. Each brush is handmade with special attention to the hair, ferrule, and handle.

Molded from hard-wearing ABS plastic, these flexible, lightweight jumbo painting knives won't corrode or rust like traditional knives - and their handles will never detach!

Grumbacher Vine Charcoal is created by burning hand-selected vines at high temperatures to produce a beautiful range of velvety grays, from dark, soft charcoal to light, hard charcoal. Available in four grades: Hard, Medium, Soft, and Extra Soft.

Now available in an extra-thick jumbo size, this artist's staple is even more of a value for artists. Available individually or in a package of 25, each stick measures 6" long × 1/2" diameter.

Grumbacher's Willow Charcoal sticks are cooked to a uniform medium hardness. Choose Thin, Medium, or Thick cylindrical sticks.

Grumbacher Final Fixative is a workable fixative for charcoal, pastels, and pencil work, appropriate for use on paper, photographs, printed materials, and ceramics. Colorless, flexible, non-yellowing, fast-drying and can be reworked when dry.

This is a workable fixative and surface preparation for use on paper, acetate, foil, and glass that allows non-porous surfaces to accept waterbased media without beading up. It dries to a non-glossy finish.

Grumbacher Alkyd Painting Medium lubricates oil color for easier surface glide, allowing for up to eight hours of painting with little, if any, brush drag.

Grumbacher Cobalt Drier is the only siccative that has been scientifically proven to be the least harmful to use for fine art painting. Cobalt Drier speeds drying of oil colors and oil painting mediums.

Grumbacher Copal Painting Medium is made with a modern synthetic copal resin. When added to oil colors, it improves flow, accelerates drying, and imparts hardness and a high gloss to the dry paint film.

Grumbacher Japan Drier is a reliable alkyd resin-based liquid siccative intended for use by sign painters, artisans, and craftspeople. It is an ideal medium for oil gilding.

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

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.

This medium is especially useful for under-painting on an absorbent gesso ground or for mural work. Add it directly to oil color in small quantities for increased fluidity and enhanced ease of application.

Formulated especially to improve flow, retard drying time, and impart a high gloss finish to the dried paint film, this is the ideal painting medium for alla prima (wet-in-wet) painting techniques.

Oil Painting Medium III dilutes oil color to speed drying time and improve paint flow. Add it directly to the color in small quantities. It's perfect for detail work.

The Grumbacher Pale Drying Oil is a safe, non-toxic medium is specially formulated for use by hobbyists, decorative painters, and other artisans to reduce the consistency of tube oil colors and accelerate drying time. Because excessive use causes severe yellowing and brittleness of the paint film, Pale Drying Oil is not recommended for fine art applications.

Grumbacher Poppyseed Oil is a purified, non-yellowing oil painting medium. When mixed with oil colors, it slows their drying rate, allowing ample time for blending and other wet-into-wet techniques. It also makes colors smoother, improves their flow, and helps level out brushstrokes. It may be diluted with Grumtine, pure gum spirits of turpentine, or odorless paint thinner.

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.

Grumbacher Stand Oil is a polymerized linseed oil with a thicker, molasses-like viscosity that offers better flow and leveling than regular linseed oil.

A heavy-bodied purified oil that is thicker than regular linseed oil but not as thick as stand oil, Grumbacher Sun-Thickened Linseed Oil is designed for use in preparing oil painting mediums.

Grumbacher Turpentine is a traditional solvent used for thinning oil colors and varnishes. It improves flow, dissolves wet color easily, and evaporates rapidly. Add it directly to paints or mediums for thinning. It can also be used as a brush cleaner.

Accelerate the drying time of your painting with this clear and colorless colloidal oil painting medium. Grumbacher ZEC Medium maintains the consistency and hue of the colors and holds any desired texture.

Full range of traditional oil colors with good quality and good prices. All colors have excellent tinting strength, and the whites are absolutely non-yellowing. Tubes and sets.

Made from same pigments and linseed oil as Grumbacher Pre-Tested Oils. Can be intermixed with other oils or mediums. Thin and clean-up with water. Tubes. Also wooden Sketchbox Set, Sampler Set, and Intro Set.

This permanent, fast-drying Titanium White oil paint is designed for underpainting or wet-in-wet painting. It is specifically formulated to create a lean, dry paint film and will readily accept glazes. Also use for surface textures and impasto techniques.

Professional colors contain finest pure pigments, milled in alkali-refined linseed oil. High chroma, superior tint strength, excellent adhesion, light-fastness, and archival permanence.

Fine pigments, finely ground and evenly dispersed, produce vibrant washes and subtle gradations. Tubes. Also sets with brush, mixing tray, and watercolor guide. Also Sketchbox set.

Grumbacher Finest Artists' Watercolors are professional grade colors formulated with premium grades of pigments sourced throughout the world. Each of the rich, fully pigmented colors in the line is designed to ensure fluid, even washes.

Grumbacher Miskit Frisket 559 is a fluorescent orange color, for use on hard-sized watercolor papers, photos and other media, to mask areas that are meant to be painted once the dried frisket is removed. Washes out of pens and brushes with soap and water.

Two formulas: transparent and opaque. Colors are poured into large, circular cakes that snap in and out of trays. Sets include a pointed, round red sable brush.

This is a pure gum damar that is used to enrich dry oil paintings. Quick-drying and permanent, it provides a transparent high gloss finish that also protects oil paintings. When used properly, it will not "bloom" or cloud with age.

Grumbacher Damar Retouch Varnish is a spray damar varnish for intermediate stages of development in an oil painting to even out the gloss of unfinished works, or to revive sunken in or dry areas to aid in accurate color comparison for further painting.

A colorless, genuine Damar varnish for use as a final protective coating on thoroughly dry oil paintings. It brings out the beauty of oil colors with an soft, even, matte finish, while protecting paintings from dirt, moisture, and scuffs.

Enhance the beauty of your artwork while guarding it from environmental damage. Grumbacher varnishes are ideal as a final coating for dry oil and acrylic paintings, offering protection from dirt, moisture, and scuffs.

This crystal clear, acrylic resin varnish provides an exceptional final finish for oil and acrylic paintings. Offering excellent adhesion with no cracking or blooming, it dries to a gloss finish in less than 30 minutes. This durable finish resists normal acids, moisture, and alkalis, and will not darken with age. When used as a medium with oil colors, it produces a soft chromatic quality.

The white, heavyweight drawing paper in Grumbacher Mixed Media In & Out Pads has a medium-tooth texture for dry media and light wet media washes. The pads are dual loop wirebound and feature patent-pending “In & Out” pages that can be removed and returned.

Grumbacher Mixed Media Pads are the perfect choice for dry media and light washes of wet media. The white, heavyweight drawing paper has a medium-tooth texture and is set in a fold-over tape bound pad. The paper weighs 98 lb (160 gsm). Pads hold 60 sheets.

The beauty of these hardcover sketchbooks is that pages can be removed for reworking or scanning, then returned to the book. The Grumbacher Mixed Media Sketchbook holds 40 pages of white "In & Out" mixed media paper that is sized for dry and wet media. 90 lb (185 gsm).

Bring your artwork to life with Grumbacher Moto Mixed Media Synthetic Paper Pads. Ideal for use with watercolor, ink, and marker, this acid-free, non-porous paper has an opaque, waterproof film that resists tearing and buckling. Each tape-bound pad contains 10 sheets of 200 gsm paper. Made in the USA.

Work fluidly when creating acrylic art with Grumbacher Acrylic In & Out Pads. These versatile notebooks feature In & Out Pages. The acid-free, heavyweight paper has a bright white, textured surface that’s optimally sized for acrylic paints, inks, and markers.

Bring your art to life on Grumbacher Acrylic Tapebound Pads. The heavyweight, acid-free paper is optimally sized for acrylic paints, inks, and markers. It has a bright white, textured surface to keep your colors looking crisp.

Grumbacher Watercolor Fold Over Pads hold 12 sheets of 140 lb (300 gsm) cold press watercolor paper with optimized internal and external vegan sizing for good wet and dry lifting. These pads have a cover that folds out of the way when working in the pad, offering unobstructed access to the entire sheet.

Grumbacher Watercolor In & Out Pads hold 140 lb (300 gsm) cold press watercolor paper with optimized sizing for good wet and dry lifting. Unique “In & Out” pages can be removed for painting, reworking, scanning, and more.

Get impeccable performance with Grumbacher Watercolor Tapebound Pads. These heavyweight, cold press, acid-free watercolor sheets have optimum sizing for good wet and dry lifting. 140 lb (300 gsm).