Oils & Acrylics
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Gamblin Gamvar Varnish Gloss
Starting at: £15.20
Gamvar Picture Varnish saturates colors in your painting and gives your work a unified and protective surface. Developed in collaboration with the National Gallery of Art, Gamvar goes on water-clear, stays water-clear and can be easily and safely removed with Gamsol. Gamvar is virtually odorless and ready to apply. Brush apply. Do not spray. All Gamvar can be applied when the thickest areas of your painting are thoroughly dry and firm to the touch. Please visit our Video Demos page for additional information. Learn More -
Studio Safe Retouching Damar Varnish
Starting at: £15.20
Studio Safe Retouching Damar Varnish. Use where dull or sunken areas of a painting need lifting. Learn More -
Studio Safe Gloss Picture Varnish
Starting at: £17.90
Studio Safe Gloss Picture Varnish. Dries to a gloss finish Learn More -
Winsor & Newton Artists' Satin Varnish
Starting at: £9.20
Winsor & Newton Artists' Satin Varnish Learn More -
Talens Retouching Varnish Aerosol
Starting at: £19.95
Aerosol varnish for oil colour. Temporary protective coat. Use as soon as painting is touch dry. Unable to send overseas. Learn More -
Talens Acrylic Picture Varnishes Aerosol
Starting at: £19.25
Aerosol varnish for oil or acrylic paintings. Gloss or Matt finishes. Unable to send overseas. Learn More -
Talens Picture Varnishes Aerosol
Starting at: £19.95
Aerosol varnish for oil paintings. Gloss or Matt finishes. Unable to send overseas. Learn More -
Winsor & Newton Distilled Turpentine
Starting at: £6.85
From the Winsor & Newton website: A fast evaporating, highly refined essential oil with the strongest thinning and brush cleaning power of all Artists' grade solvents. Suitable for removing varnish (including Dammar Varnish).Keep tightly closed and away from light to prevent oxidation. Do not use if it has thickened. Learn More -
Cornelissen Lemon Oil
Starting at: £12.30
Lemon oil is an essential oil, primarily used for its scent. Learn More -
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Roberson White Spirit
Starting at: £7.50
Plastic container. Solvent distilled from crude petroleum oils. Used to thin colour and to clean brushes. Slower drying time than turpentine. Learn More -
Roberson Pure Gum Turpentine
Starting at: £14.00
Slightly less refined than rectified spirit of turpentine. Often preferred as constituent of painting mediums. Learn More -
Cornelissen Rectified Turpentine
Starting at: £9.00
Volatile colourless liquid distilled from pine sap. Greater wetting powers than white spirit. Used to thin oil paint. Learn More -
Cornelissen Larch Venice Turpentine
Starting at: £28.80
Venice Trupentine is a thick, resinous liquid extracted from the Larix decidua, a larch tree native to Austria. It can impart luminosity, brilliance and gloss when used in mediums and varnishes, and as such it was highly valued during the Golden Age of painting in Venice. It is a slow-drying balsam, which can be diluted with turpentine or placed in a bath of warm water to aid flow.
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Cornelissen Copaiba Balsam
Starting at: £20.80
Copaiba Balsam comes from the South American tree Copaifera landsdorfii. Its primary function is to improve the appearance of paint layers that may have become dull, brittle or sunken upon drying. It is a viscous liquid that may be diluted with turpentine, but which should not be used in painting mediums.
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Roberson Studio Safe Solvent
Starting at: £10.90
A highly efficient and safer solvent for oil paint. Studio Safe is non-aromatic and non-flammable and has a pleasant orange smell. Use for brush cleaning and the thinning of paint and as an alternative to traditional turpentine and white spirit.
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Winsor & Newton Brush Cleaner
Starting at: £4.80
From the Winsor & Newton website: A new addition to the Winsor & Newton range, this water-miscible solvent removes dried oil, alkyd acrylic colour from brushes. Soak in the cleaner overnight scrub if necessary. Cleanable with water.
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Cornelissen Canada Balsam
Starting at: £39.10
Canada Balsam is an oleoresin, meaning that it is a mixture of essential oils and resin. It comes from the fir tree Abies balsamea, native to Canada and the eastern states of North America. It is notable for its pale colour, clarity and gloss, making it a useful ingredient in recipes for oil-painting mediums.
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Winsor & Newton Sansodor
Starting at: £6.85
Sansodor is a low-odour solvent which can be used as an alternative to turpentine. It evaporates slowly, increasing the blending time of oil paints, and can be used to clean brushes. Learn More -
Cranfield (Spectrum) Beeswax in White Spirit
Starting at: £18.55
From the Cranfield website:
A pereparation of pure beeswax in white spirit, this is used to achieve a soft sheen on your finished painting. It will retard drying, allowing you to achieve a range of effects.
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Winsor & Newton Art Painting Medium
Starting at: £9.20
From the Winsor & Newton website: A slow drying, gloss medium which is ideal for fine detail work, glazing and smoothly blended areas with no brush marks. Reduces consistency and improves flow. Suitable for oiling out and enriching dull patches. Resistant to yellowing.
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Cranfield (Spectrum) Linseed Oil Paste
Starting at: £24.65
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From the Cranfield website:
An almost transparent painting medium based on refined linseed oil and alumina. It is similar in consistency to Studio Oil Colours in tubes. It does not promote quick drying and may be used to extend oil colours. It can be used in large ratios where the desired effect is to increase yellowing and darkening of pale colours. It will not increase gloss.
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Cranfield (Spectrum) Spectraflow Medium
Starting at: £16.96
From the Cranfield website:
This free flowing, slightly thixotropic medium is alkyd based and will not increase gloss when added to oil colours. It is quick drying.
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Cranfield (Spectrum) Spectragel Medium
Starting at: £16.50
From the Cranfield website:
This is a thixotropic alkyd medium designed to mix with oil colours, retaining the body of the paint.
Spectragel is a gloss medium and is quick drying. It is a clear medium based on a synthetic resin that improves the weather resistance of oil colours; ideal for glazing and extending colours while retaining gloss and structure of paint.
Matt Spectragel is a quick drying, clear, weather-resistant medium based on synthetic resin. Ideal for extending colours, Matt Spectragel Medium will retain structure and dry to a matt finish.
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Lefranc Harlem Duroziez Drying Medium
Starting at: £9.10
Lefranc Bourgeois are a paint manufacturer with a long history of supplying to artists since their beginnings in 1720.
From their website: The Harlem Duroziez drying medium increases the brilliance and transparency of glazes. It enables the build-up of layers over the course of half a day thanks to the rapid drying effect of thin layers. It is completely dry within three days.
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Lefranc Flemish Glazing Medium
Starting at: £9.10
Lefranc Bourgeois are a paint manufacturer with a long history of supplying to artists since their beginnings in 1720.
From their website: The Flemish glazing medium enables artists to create glossy amber finishes in the style of the Flemish masters. It creates a transparent look. It also greatly enhances the brilliance of the oil. After half a day’s work, the colours can be layered over each other.
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Lefranc Vibert Medium
Starting at: £9.10
LeFranc Bourgeois are a paint manufacturer with a long history of supplying to artists since their beginnings in 1720.
From their website: The slow-drying J.G. Vibert painting medium holds brush marks, creates a painterly satin film and prevents any sinking. It creates a uniform top film and enables artists to rework old colours for long periods of time.
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Roberson Cobalt Siccative
Starting at: £7.70
A cobalt drier in white spirit, to be added sparingly to oil colours to accelerate drying. Learn More -
Roberson Florentine Medium
Starting at: £10.80
When Roberson Florentine Medium is mixed with oil colour, it is possible to paint freely on textile fabrics, which will stand up to subsequent hand-washing with soap and water. It may also be used when painting with oils on unprepared paper. Learn More -
Roberson Impasto Medium
Starting at: £16.50
Roberson Impasto medium is a crack-resistant medium for impasto effects. It retains palette knife and brush strokes, giving the paint sharp, defined edges. It remains thick and doubles paint easily, drying to a matte finish. To retain colour strength, mix one part medium to one part oil colour.
Contains: Stand Oil, Damar Resin, Turpentine, Bleached Beeswax.
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