schmincke oil medium walnut oil

A pure, light and purified walnut oil. Walnut Oil can be used as a binding component for own-production of non-white oil colours and for painting mediums. The oil ratio very much depends on the type and quantity of the pigment. Walnut Oil is slower drying and less yellowing than linseed oil.

Plant oils are great for loosening up your oilpaint, for blending or glazing. The best oil to use is a high quality Linseed. Although yellowish in colour, Linseed has the best drying characteristics of all the plant oils. Clearer oils such as Safflower, Sunflower, Walnut and Poppy are not good driers, and should only be used sparingly or in conjuction with Linseed. The Old Masters used measurements of “nuts and seeds” for additions to oilpaint, so only add a maximum of 20% oil into your paint or you can have problems with drying, adhesion, sweating & wrinkling. Oil should not be added to your initial paint layer.

ABOUT SCHMINCKE
Schmincke began at the end of the 19th Century, when the colour chemists Josef Horadam and Hermann Schmincke saw an opportunity to provide the artists of the day with a truly superior artists oil, and so set out to Italy where traditional studio painting was still taught, in search of the nearly forgotten resin oil formulations.
In 1881, at the Academy of Fine Art in Florence, they secured the precision formulations of the Professor Cesare Mussini, a guardian of the old masters techniques, and on these formulations, the two founded their manufacturing establishment under the name H.Schmincke and Co.

In subsequent years, artists’ colours to suit all techniques were introduced, such as Josef Horadam’s patent watercolours of 1892. Through the entire 20th century, every generation of owner has lead the company to its current position as one of the worlds leading manufacturers of finest artists’ colour.