Mediums Guide
Every medium and varnish in the range, grouped by what it does - so you can find the right one for the way you paint.
The binders and thinning oils that carry your pigment.
Walnut Oil
Refined Walnut Oil is a pale oil medium that dries at a similar rate to linseed oil but yellows less. It forms a clean, bright paint film and is often used as a binder in high-quality white paints.
Poppy Seed Oil
Refined Poppy Seed Oil is a slow-drying, pale oil used in painting for its non-yellowing qualities. It improves gloss and transparency while offering a softer, less durable film than linseed oil.
Refined Linseed Oil
Refined Pale Linseed Oil is made from flax seeds, and used to improve gloss, transparency and flow in oil paints. It forms a strong, durable paint film and is suitable for mixing with dry pigments.
Safflower Oil
Refined Safflower Oil is a pale, slow-drying oil used to thin and brighten oil paints. Its low yellow tint helps maintain brightness in whites and light colours compared to traditional linseed oil.
Linseed Stand Oil
Refined Linseed Stand Oil is a thick, pale, vegan oil medium with honey-like viscosity. It smooths brushstrokes, increases flow and gloss, and slows drying while forming a strong, flexible paint film.
Traditional and solvent-free ways to thin and clean.
Miracle Medium ™
MM0 Miracle Medium ™ Solvent-free, odourless, vegan, plant-based oil painting medium used instead of turpentine to thin paint, clean brushes and glaze. A safer, sustainable option with no harsh fumes; may extend drying time.
Gum Turpentine
Refined Gum Turpentine is a colourless solvent distilled from pine sap, used to thin oil paint and clean tools. It speeds drying time and produces a slightly matt finish in oil paint layers.
Classic mediums for flow, gloss, glaze and body.
Oil Paint Medium
PM1 is a basic paint medium designed to increase the flow of your oil paints. This paint medium will also increase the gloss and transparency of your colours, adding to the depth and beauty of your painting. This medium is a linseed stand oil and turpentine formulation that helps prevent the yellowing of paint film.
Dammar Glaze Medium
PM2 is a traditional glaze medium that includes a small portion of cobalt free drier to aid drying. Designed to create gloss and depth within your oil paint layers, this glaze is made by dissolving dammar crystals in the finest Portuguese maritime turpentine and combining it with stand oil. Dammar Glaze Medium is known for its speedy drying time of oil colours. Use it with slower-drying colours.
Oleo Impasto Medium
PM7 Oleo Impasto Medium is a gel made from fumed silica and linseed oil, the combination of which imparts great luminosity, particularly with transparent colours. Use this in varying amounts with a brush or knife to achieve extra body. This medium has an average drying speed and increases the transparency of oil colours. Pigment can be added and ground to make your own oil paints.
Beeswax Paste
PM4 Beeswax Paste is a high oil content paste made from linseed stand oil and pure bleached beeswax. This paste increases the body of oil colour with a satin-matt finish, which is especially useful with opaque colours.
Balsam Resin Medium
PM6 Balsam Resin Glaze medium is based on a mixture of Austrian larch turpentine (also known as Venice Turpentine), dammar resin and linseed stand oil. This historic medium has a pleasant smell and can be added to your oil colours to enhance depth, gloss and lustre.
Resin Oil Wax Medium
PM3 Resin Oil Wax Medium is a soft painting paste that’s derived from pure bleached beeswax and mixed with Dammar resin and linseed stand oil. This popular medium creates a satin sheen and gentle impasto in paint layers. Settling of the medium may occur, so stand the jar in hot water and stir contents until dissolved.
Oleo Resin Medium
PM5 Oleo Resin Medium is a historical glaze medium made from light-coloured Canada balsam fused with dammar resin and linseed stand oil. This versatile medium provides high gloss levels while imparting depth to paint films.
Modern mediums built on the solvent-free Miracle Medium™ base.
Miracle Medium ™ Quick-dry Dammar Glaze
MM2 Miracle Medium ™ Quick Dry Dammar Glaze is based on a traditional glaze medium that adds depth and gloss to transparent oil colours. Contains a cobalt-free drier for safer use and offers a modern alternative to Dammar glaze mediums.
Miracle Medium ™ Oil Paint Medium
MM1 Miracle Medium ™ Oil Paint Medium is a solvent-free oil painting medium made with stand oil and Miracle Medium™, designed to improve flow, gloss, transparency and depth of colour, enhancing pigment richness and overall handling.
Miracle Medium ™ Beeswax Paste
MM4 Miracle Medium ™ Beeswax Paste is a high oil-content beeswax paste made with stand oil and Miracle Medium™, designed to increase body and create a satin-matt finish, especially effective with opaque oil colours and textured effects.
Miracle Medium ™ Resin Oil Wax
MM3 Miracle Medium ™ Resin-Oil Wax is a soft resin oil wax medium made from bleached beeswax, dammar resin, stand oil and Miracle Medium™, creating a satin sheen and gentle impasto while enhancing texture and body of oil paints.
Final surface coatings for protection and finish.
Matt Varnish
MH Matt Varnish creates a long-lasting, protective coating with a beautiful matt finish. This particular MH Varnish is made from real beeswax dissolved in the finest Portuguese turpentine. Please be sure to have allowed your painting to dry for a minimum of six months, or if the paint is very thick, one year before applying.
Dammar Varnish
This versatile varnish creates a subtle gloss finish. Our Dammar Varnish is made from the best quality dammar resin from Thailand that is dissolved in double-rectified Portuguese maritime turpentine and carefully filtered. Use it to bring out the best in opaque and semi-opaque colours.