Oil Painting Mediums

Great for plein air painting, this transparent medium is made with a fast-drying resin to speed the drying of both alkyds and traditional oils. Used for extending colors and creating transparent glazes, Gel Medium FastDry can be diluted with solvent to achieve a thinner consistency if desired.

Recommended for experienced painters who work all day on the same painting, this syrupy, heavy-bodied liquid medium contains high solids to promote faster, more thorough drying of oils, and increase gloss and flow for enamel-like effects.

Chroma Archival Oils Lean Medium is a very fluid, general-purpose alkyd resin medium that can be used to increase the flow and transparency of Chroma Archival Oils, as well as for glazing and other thin applications.

Mix one to one with oil colors to accelerate drying time and reduce viscosity.

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.

This special medium was developed to provide a non-toxic, environmentally responsible alternative to solvent based, rapid drying alkyd mediums. It closely resembles combinations of sun-thickened oil and natural resins.

Flow Dry Alkyd accelerates drying time and provides a creamy texture to oil paint, improving fluidity and increasing gloss. It resists yellowing. Ideally suited for glazes.

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.

Durable, non-yellowing medium for thinning oil and alkyd colors, and for speeding drying time. Excellent for glazing and producing fine detail.

Experience the outstanding quality of Winsor & Newton Oil Mediums with this special Introductory Set. It contains 30 ml (1 oz) bottles of Artists' Painting Medium, Liquin Original, Liquin Fine Detail, and Stand Oil, plus an informational leaflet.

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.

Copal is a natural resin medium historically used by the Flemish masters to achieve their strikingly brilliant, enamel-like glazes. Utrecht Copal Medium is a modern improvement made from a blend of natural copal, synthetic resin, and refined turpentine.

Utrecht has been making affordable, professional-quality art supplies in Brooklyn, New York, since 1949. The company's Oil Mediums reflect Utrecht's dedication to helping artists realize their vision without spending a fortune.

Made from high-quality natural resins, Blick Studio Damar Varnish provides surface protection for oil and alkyd paintings by preventing dust and airborne contaminants from adhering.

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.

Enkaustikos Damar Resin is a natural, sticky sap, harvested from trees that grow in the East Indies. The combination of damar resin with USP beeswax produces a harder, more durable paint film. This creates a luminous finish.

This is an historic paint medium, based on light-colored Canada balsam and fused with dammar resin and linseed stand oil. Oleo-Resin Medium can be added to oil colors to enhance depth, gloss, and luster.

This is a soft painting paste derived from bleached, pure beeswax and fused with dammar resin and linseed stand oil. It creates a satin sheen and allows for gentle impasto effects when painting in layers. When settling occurs, stand the jar in hot water and stir the medium until it dissolves.

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.

Based on Damar gum, Sennelier Turner Medium can be mixed with oil colors in any proportion. It is suited for work with fresh paints. It reinforces the cohesion of brush strokes, accentuates gloss, and is useful for transparent washes and glazing.

Utrecht Damar Varnish is a very durable yet flexible varnish prepared from pure, sustainably harvested, Singapore white damar gum. When used as a final coating over finished paintings, it adds a high gloss finish and extra-strong yet flexible protection.

Williamsburg Damar Crystals are highest-quality, 100% natural damar crystals from Indonesia.

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.

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 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.

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.

Utrecht Japan Drier is an ideal medium for gilding oil paintings. Simply apply Japan Drier to your painting surface and allow it to dry to a high tack, then apply gold or silver leafing, smooth, and burnish.

Utrecht has been making affordable, professional-quality art supplies in Brooklyn, New York, since 1949. The company's Oil Mediums reflect Utrecht's dedication to helping artists realize their vision without spending a fortune.

Winsor & Newton Drying Linseed Oil possesses a darker color than Refined Linseed Oil. It promotes the fastest drying rate of all drying oils while increasing gloss.

This transparent medium has a heavier consistency that retains its shape for impasto painting techniques. Use it to build structure by applying it directly and covering it with paint, or mixing it with paint on the palette. It dries thoroughly to allow the building of a surface.

This semi-opaque medium is cloudy white in color with a grainy texture. Use it for building higher texture without adding weight — or mix it with color or use it alone to create an "under texture." This medium dries to a tough yet flexible sandy surface.

Created especially for use with water-mixable techniques, Cobra Mediums make working with Cobra Water Mixable Oil Colors even easier and more fun. They improve paint flow, decrease color intensity, increase paint volume, and add transparency.

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.

Durable, non-yellowing medium for thinning oil and alkyd colors, and for speeding drying time. Excellent for glazing and producing fine detail.

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

Pressed from top-quality flax seeds, Blick Studio Linseed Oil contains no free mineral acids. Mix it with oil and alkyd colors for smoother color application and better blending. Or combine it with turpentine or mineral spirits to create your own custom 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.

Hand-cleaned and purified using traditional methods, CCS Walnut Oil improves the richness and brightness of whites and light oil colors. It dries slower and is less yellow than linseed oil.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Distilled from a variety of the lavender plant family, this fragrant oil is a thinning agent with properties similar to turpentine but has a greater tendency to oxidize or gum and does not evaporate as readily.

Still made by the orthodox method of exposure to the sun for prolonged periods, this oil is very heavy and thick, with a viscosity that improves drying, leveling and protective characteristics. Used with oil mediums, varnishes and glazes.

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.

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.

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.

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

Old Holland Refined Poppy Oil is made from the first pressing of poppy seeds. Used to increase the fluidity and enhance the flow of oil paints, it's great for use with light colors.

A medium-viscosity polymerized oil suitable for glazing when thinned with rectified turpentine. It produces harder films with less tendency to yellow than thinned linseed oil. It improves the fluidity and gloss of colors when used sparingly.

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.

An affordable alternative to cold pressed linseed oil and sufficiently pure for most painting applications, Utrecht Linseed Oil is an alkali-refined linseed oil that meets the demands of discriminating professionals. It is derived from seeds of the flax plant.

Utrecht has been making affordable, professional-quality art supplies in Brooklyn, New York, since 1949. The company's Oil Mediums reflect Utrecht's dedication to helping artists realize their vision without spending a fortune.

This is a genuine alkali-refined linseed oil. It increases the flow, transparency, and gloss of oil paints and is also useful as an ingredient when making your own painting mediums.

This thick-bodied, polymerized linseed oil is heated in the absence of oxygen to a honey-like consistency. It levels well and produces an enamel-like sheen.

Winsor & Newton Drying Linseed Oil possesses a darker color than Refined Linseed Oil. It promotes the fastest drying rate of all drying oils while increasing gloss.

Made with the same vegetable oils used to formulate oil colors — namely linseed, safflower, and poppy — drying oils are used to modify the consistency and drying time of oil paints in much the same way as prepared mediums.

The palest of all the drying oils, Winsor & Newton Drying Poppy Oil is specially formulated for use with white and pale colors. It reduces the consistency of oil paints while increasing their gloss and transparency. It also resists yellowing.

Winsor & Newton's most popular oil offers many of the same qualities as Winsor & Newton Cold-Pressed Linseed Oil, but is slower-drying. Refined Linseed Oil is an alkali-refined oil of pale color that reduces oil color consistency and increases gloss and transparency.

A pale refined oil of syrupy consistency, Winsor & Newton Thickened Linseed Oil speeds drying time even more than Winsor & Newton Bleached Linseed Oil. It improves flow and gloss, and increases the durability of the film. This oil behaves like Linseed Stand Oil but dries quicker and darker.

This archival-quality medium thins oil paints and decreases drying time. The oil in CCS Lean Medium is cold-pressed, purified, and de-yellowed by traditional, natural processes.

This is a modified stand oil-based medium for painters who prefer slower drying. It offers longer manipulation time for over-painting, glazing, and wet-in-wet techniques.

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.

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.

Maimeri Eco Oil Medium is a non-toxic, non-hazardous, water-mixable oil medium formulated to meet the demands of today's health– and eco-conscious painters. Maimeri Eco Oil Medium softens oil paints' consistency and reduces their density, making paint application smoother and easier.

This is a basic paint medium designed to ease flow, as well as to increase the gloss, transparency, depth, and beauty of oil colors.

Old Holland Oil Painting Medium thins oil paints, increases fluidity, and enhances flow. Made from a mixture of linseed oil, turpentine oil, and white spirit, it contains no resin or dryers. It reduces gloss and ensures that brushstrokes remain visible, but does not affect the drying time.

A colorless, liquid gloss medium that adds body and volume to the paste, ideal for glazing and "alla prima" painting techniques. It speeds drying, imparts a gloss that does not diminish noticeably during drying, and brightens colors.

Utrecht's exclusive blend of damar gum, linseed oil, and artist's pure gum turpentine makes oil colors more fluid, enhances their gloss level, increases their brilliance, and makes the final paint film more flexible and durable. A great general-purpose medium.

Weber Liquiglaze Natural is a safe, completely non-toxic transparentizing medium for oil colors that improves flow, heightens gloss, and speeds drying time. Excellent for glazing, it cleans up with soap and water.

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, damar varnish, and artist's pure gum turpentine.

Chelsea Classical Studio Brush Cleaners and Olive Oil & Lavender Soap for Cleaning Brushes are a safer alternative to turpentine, mineral spirits, and other toxic solvents. Great for maintaining a clean, all-natural studio or classroom. Made in the USA using Old World Master techniques.

Chelsea Classical Studio Lavender Spike Oil Essence is made using only the best natural materials. This high-quality natural solvent is meticulously handcrafted using formulas based on historic recipes and techniques.

This is a general-purpose, odorless solvent that can be used instead of gum and mineral turpentine to thin paints and clean brushes.

Citra Solv Natural Citrus Cleaner is a versatile citrus solvent that's ideal for a variety of art applications, including fabric transfer, mixed media, altering of magazine pages, photo transfers, and other creative projects.

Low Odor Mineral Spirits acts as a fine quality thinner for use in reducing most brush-applied alkyd and oil paints, varnishes, and enamels. It improves brushing qualities and cleans materials. It can also be used to prepare surfaces before painting.

A medium-strength, general-purpose thinner and mild solvent of choice for fine art painters. Eco-House 115 Xtra-Mild Citrus Cleaner dries slower than turpentine, keeping the paint workable for a longer period of time.

Archival-quality solvent is made from food-quality ingredients for optimal health safety. It can be used as a substitute for turpentine, since it dissolves damar resin solids, hardened paint, etc.

Gamsol is an excellent solvent for thinning Gamblin mediums and for general painting. It evaporates 100% and leaves no residue in paint layers. It's also useful for studio and brush cleanup.

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.

Maimeri Odorless Thinner has moderate solvent power, and is suitable for indoor use or for people who are sensitive to the odor of normal solvents.

Maimeri Petroleum Essence is a light thinner. It evaporates quickly, with good solvent power, so it's ideal for cleaning brushes.

A vegetable solvent of ancient origins, Maimeri Turpentine Essence produces a matte finish. It's also suitable for cleaning brushes. Highly flammable.

Maimeri's Venetian Turpentine is a golden solution, also called "fatty essence." It increases the shine and flexibility of paint.

Maimeri White Spirit is a paint thinner with good solvent power for oil colors and varnish. (In American English, the petroleum distillate "white spirit" is known as mineral spirits.)

Not the same as ordinary turpentine, Shiva Rectified Turpentine is double distilled and highly refined to properly reduce the consistency and improve the flow of artist's oil colors.

Use Schmincke Varnish Remover to safely remove varnish when a painting needs to be cleaned or revarnished. Stronger than turpentine, it will more easily remove the existing varnish coat without damaging the paint film underneath.

Sennelier Green for Oil Thinner is a safer, eco-friendly alternative to traditional solvents. Use Green for Oil Thinner just like a classic thinner. Mix it with your oil paints to make them more fluid and more suitable for underpainting.

Sennelier Green for Oil Thinner is a safer, eco-friendly alternative to traditional solvents. Use Green for Oil Thinner just like a classic thinner. Mix it with your oil paints to make them more fluid and more suitable for underpainting.

When mixed with oil colors, Sennelier Rectified Turpentine Spirits produce a very agreeable paste that's ideal for underpainting or sketching techniques. This traditional thinner is distilled from pine gum spirits harvested in the Landes Forest of Gascony, France.

High powered, fast drying solvent for thinning epoxies, fiberglass and other resins. Quart container (32 oz).

The traditional choice for diluting oil paints and alkyds, for cleaning brushes and tools, and for mixing your own custom mediums, Utrecht Gum Turpentine is distilled from wood and is a better choice than mineral spirits for fine art applications.