schmincke watercolour medium fixative b72

This crystal clear fixative suits as a fixative for pencil, charcoal, pastels, watercolours, ink, tempera, photos, prints, acrylic and oil colours. Due to the well-known acrylic resin Paraloid® B72 (often used in restoration) it has tightening and protecting characteristics and is also suitable as final varnish. It is highly lightfast, age-resistant and non-yellowing. Depending on the painting surface you will achieve an invisible fixation (on absorbent surfaces) or a semi-matt/ slightly glossy film (on non-absorbent surfaces).

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.