Oil Mediums & Varnishes

Solvent-Free Gel is the only solvent-free painting medium that supports a broad range of painting techniques with minimal compromise across color, dry time, texture, and mark making. This medium can give colors more flow and transparency, but should be...

Michael Harding Matt Varnish creates a long-lasting protective coating for oil paintings, with a beautiful matte finish. It's made from real beeswax and dissolved in the finest Portuguese turpentine. To use, heat the container until the...

Turpentine is a strong solvent designed for cleaning brushes and thinning oil paints and varnishes. As a traditional thinning medium, it increases paint flow, quickly dissolves wet paint and evaporates. Available in an 8 oz jar.

Winsor & Newton's Liquin Oleopasto Medium is a paste-like, semi-matte version of Liquin. Liquin Oleopasto halves the drying time of oil color, while creating a viscous paint that holds many marks from brushes or palette knives. It keeps the oily...

Cobra Painting Paste is a colorless medium that can be mixed with water mixable oil paints in any ratio to extend the tube color. It is thick and is ideal for increasing the amount of paint when large amounts of paint are desired such as impasto...

Michael Harding Beeswax Paste is a high oil content paste based on linseed stand oil and pure bleached beeswax. This paste increases the body of oil color giving it longer working time and a satin-matte finish, which is especially useful with...

Stand Oil is a heavy-bodied purified linseed oil that is ideal for glazing and popular for its hard, enamel-like dried surface. This oil medium is slow-drying, smooth and when mixed with a solvent it is great for fine detail work.  It resists...

Winsor & Newton's Drying Linseed Oil promotes the fastest drying rate of all the oil mediums. It improves the flow and increases transparency & gloss of the oil paint. Available in a 75ml (2.54 oz.) bottle.

MTN PRO Canvas Varnish is designed as a final coat to protect oil and acrylic paints against humidity, UV rays, dust, contamination and contact, allowing the work to maintain its properties without yellowing or cracking. Very fast drying through...

Liquitex Ceramic Stucco Medium is an acrylic effect gel that builds flexible, cement-like, fine-grade texture. It is highly flexible and adhesive, will not chip or crack on canvas, and dries to a light gray matte stucco finish. It is excellent for...

Liquitex Natural Sand Gel Medium is a finely textured gel that dries to a glossy "beach sand" finish. Natural sand particles add structure to this 100% acrylic polymer. It is highly flexible and adhesive, will not chip or crack on canvas, and can be...

Cobra Glazing Medium is formulated to aid in better paint flow. It increases the degree of gloss and the durability of the paint film, and is very fat, so may only be applied in the last few layers of a painting. The amount you choose to...