Description
Winsor & Newton Liquin Oleopasto is a semi-matt, quick-drying oil painting medium that adds body and texture to oil paint, allowing for impasto techniques where brushstrokes and knife marks are retained. It speeds up the drying time of oil paints, increases durability, and is non-yellowing, but it is not a substitute for a final varnish. It has a soft, gel-like consistency and dries to a crack-resistant, non-yellowing film that holds peaks and textures without levelling them out. Also available Liquin Impasto which dries to a semi-gloss finish.
What Winsor & Newton Liquin Oleopasto does for your paint:
- Adds body and thickness: It gives paint a stiff, thick consistency and increases its volume, allowing you to use less paint and create more robust textures.
- Speeds up drying: It significantly reduces the drying time of oil paints, often allowing them to be touch-dry in 1 to 6 days, depending on thickness.
- Retains texture: Unlike some other mediums, it maintains the crispness of brushstrokes and knife marks, so they don’t flatten out as the paint dries.
- Increases durability: It creates a more durable, crack-resistant, and non-yellowing film once dry.
- Extends paint: It allows you to extend the amount of paint you get from a tube, making the paint go further.
- Provides a semi-matt finish: The medium dries to a semi-matt finish rather than a high gloss.
