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Refined Safflower Oil is bright, clean, and one of the highest in colour for oil, a favourite for my Titanium White No. 1.
Safflower oil is a pale, slow-drying oil that can be used to brighten and thin oil paints.
As it is a paler yellow than linseed oil, paler pigments (whites and pale blues especially) maintain their brightness when mixed with safflower oil.
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MM0 Miracle Medium is a solvent-free, odourless, vegan, and plant-based Medium that serves as an alternative to traditional turpentine. This medium offers artists a natural and sustainable option for thinning oil paints, cleaning brushes, and glazing (see our MM2 Quick Dry Dammar Varnish Miracle Medium) without the use of harsh chemicals or toxic fumes. CAN EXTEND DRYING TIME. ADD 5-10% TO OIL COLOUR AS NEEDED.
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PLANT BASED – SOLVENT FREE.
A traditional glaze medium that helps to add depth and gloss to transparent
colours. An alternative to Dammar Glaze Medium.
– Contains cobalt free drier.
– Incorporate into oil paint mixtures to accelerate drying times and create glazes with a glossy finish.
– Ideal for achieving quick-drying layers and transparent glazes in oil paintings.
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MM1: Miracle Medium Oil Paint Medium is a paint medium designed to ease flow and increase gloss, transparency, depth and beauty of the pigment colour. This medium is made using our linseed
stand oil and Miracle Medium formulation. The New Miracle Medium Oil Paint Medium is solvent free.
– Mix with oil paints to improve flow and transparency, enhancing the handling and blending of colours.
– Use as a versatile medium for modifying the consistency and texture of oil paints, allowing artists to achieve desired effects and surface qualities.
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PLANT BASED – SOLVENT FREE.
Our Miracle Medium Resin Oil Wax Medium is a soft painting paste, derived from pure bleached beeswax then mixed with dammar resin and linseed stand oil, and MH Miracle Medium. This popular medium creates a satin sheen and gentle impasto in paint layers.
– Blend with oil paints to create a resin-oil wax mixture, offering unique handling and textural effects.
– Provides artists with the ability to alter the body and surface quality of oil paints for varied artistic expressions.
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PLANT BASED – SOLVENT FREE.
Miracle Medium Beeswax Paste is a high oil content paste based on linseed stand oil and pure bleached beeswax and Miracle Medium. This paste increases the body of oil colour with satin-matt finish which is especially useful with opaque colours.
– Utilize as a medium to impart texture and impasto effects in oil paintings.
– Blend with oil paints to create textural layers and build up surface relief for added depth and visual interest.
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Over the years, many artists have asked for ways to extend their paint. This is something I frown upon because extenders often make paint more vulnerable. But given the demand, I’ve formulated something to my liking that has a pleasant linseed oil scent.
My 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.
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Pigment: None
My Clear (Transparent) is designed for application to a coloured support surface the artist wishes to preserve or enhance, such as raw linen or wood. The support will become slightly darker from the Clear (Transparent) NAAP application.
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Pigment: PW
NAAP may be applied to linen, wood, or MDF. It’s a strong, flexible, permanent, and highly pigmented ground, suitable for both acrylics and oils.
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Gamsol is an excellent solvent for thinning Gamblin mediums and for general painting. It evaporates 100% and leaves no residue in paint layers. Gamsol is less toxic than other brands of OMS (Odorless Mineral Spirits), mineral spirits, or turpentine because the harmful aromatic solvent component has been removed. It's also useful for studio and brush cleanup.
Eco-friendly Solvent-Free Fluid Medium gives oil paints a more fluid consistency and moderately speeds drying time. Handcrafted at the company's wind-powered factory in Portland, Oregon, the medium has been developed to support a broad range of painting techniques with minimal compromise in terms of color, dry time, and mark making. They are non-toxic, contain no Gamsol or petroleum distillates, and clean up with soap and water.
When mixed with oil paint, Michael Harding’s linseed oil increases the gloss and transparency of the paint, thins the paint for easier flow, and reduces visible brush marks. It also slows the drying time of the paint. However, using too much can cause yellowing due to the natural color of the oil and can lead to defects like wrinkling if layers are applied too thickly.
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