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Dala Artist’s Impasto Medium

artstuff — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 10:14:42 +0000

Impasto mediums are ideal for thickening oil paints. One of the best benefits of using an impasto medium is that it dries evenly without cracking or wrinkling. It does not waste paint, yet still produces the desired pigment.
Dala Impasto Medium is a matt, quick-drying medium which adds texture and body to artwork and extends paint colour. Suitable for use with acrylics and oils.

Dala’s Artists’ Impasto Medium is a relief agent used for exaggerating textures and colours
It is a matt; quick drying medium that adds texture and body to paint. It also extends paint colour and is yellow resistant.
Suitable for relief and textural work, and most suited to work with artist’s oil colour, though can be used successfully in conjunction with acrylic colour.
Artists Impasto Medium will help to accelerate the paints drying time (touch dry in 1-6 days) though this is dependent on colour of the paint, thickness at which it is applied, and weather conditions.

** Please note: it is not suitable as a top coat or varnish

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Zelcol Impasto Medium

artstuff — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 09:44:30 +0000

Zellen Impasto medium is excellent for impasto work:

Cobalt carboxylate, oil modified, alkyd resin
Accelerates drying time
Retain textures and brush strokes without levelling
Good resistance to yellowing
Translucent semi gloss soft gel paste.

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Winsor & Newton Liquin

artstuff — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 13:14:54 +0000

Winsor & Newton Liquin original is a general-purpose semi-gloss medium that speeds drying, improves flow, and reduces brush stroke retention. It dries to a gloss finish. It is a reliable favourite among artists.
Because it makes it makes oil paint dry faster, it enables you to work in layers more easily, since you should ideally wait for each paint layer to dry before adding more on top of it.

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Dala Linseed Oil

artstuff — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 09:11:57 +0000

The general or most commonly used oil painting mediums include Linseed Oil, Liquin and Walnut Oil. Linseed Oil is the most traditional medium for oil painting. It enhances the flow of paint and adds a glossy finish. It dries relatively slowly, allowing for longer working times.

Linseed oil is also used to protect and maintain interior and exterior woods, concrete and is one of the main ingredients in many paints and varnishes. It is a natural oil, so not as bad for the environment as many other solvent based finishes – and has a variety of other uses from furniture finish to treating wooden floors.

Available in:

100ml glass bottle
250ml plastic bottle
500ml glass bottle
1 Litre bottle

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