schmincke oil medium stand linseed oil

Stand Linseed Oil is a thicker oil that is less yellowing and more elastic than linseed oil; slower drying than Cold Pressed Linseed Oil.

Stand Oil is good for glazing and in later layers. The thicker viscosity provides for distinct brush marks and subtle blending through its enamelising affect.

It is also used as a binding component for oil colours and oil painting mediums, and a binder for own production of non-white oil colours.

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.