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Archival Professional Artists’ Oils
Technology meets tradition
Archival Professional Artists’ Oils
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Archival Professional Artists’ Oils
Archival Professional Artists’ Oils are the only patented oil in the world offering unsurpassed painting freedom, allowing long term flexibility and a safer working environment due to our odourless mediums and solvents.
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Characteristics
76 professional quality colors
Lightfast, permanent pigments
Compatible with low-odour Archival Mediums
Remain flexible when dry, allowing for freedom of fat-over-lean
Refined oil base
Available in 1.35 US fl oz (40ml) tubes with selected Series 1 colors available in 4 US fl oz (120ml) tubes
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Techniques
Flexible paint - paint in any way you choose
Lean layers over fat layers are now possible without fear of cracking
Dries quickly for fast painting
The "rules" are simple: stabilize thick, impasto paint by mixing with Archival Smooth Gel or Texture Gel; and do not paint fast drying layers over layers made with Archival Classic Medium.
Archival Professional Artists’ Oils
Archival Professional Artists’ Oils are the only patented oil in the world offering unsurpassed painting freedom, allowing long-term flexibility and a safer working environment due to our odourless mediums and solvents. Made from only the finest color pigments for their purity, brilliance and performance, Archival has been specially formulated to resist cracking. Use with odourless Archival Mediums to break free of the traditional fat-over-lean rules and explore more immediate, contemporary painting techniques.
Artwork: A Crisp Morning Light, Colley Whisson, www.colleywhisson.com
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Archival Oils Lean Medium is a general-purpose alkyd resin medium. It feels oily, but dries with a low sheen in 24 hours. It Increases flow and transparency.
Archival Oils Fat Medium is a syrupy, heavy liquid medium that promotes faster, more thorough drying of oils. Gives great control over detail and has been specially formulated using very low odor solvents.
Archival Oils Classic Medium is a very slow drying medium ideal for thinning paint while maintaining a rich, luminous finish when dry. Gives a long manipulation time for over painting and great control for detail. Ideal for glazing techniques, painting wet-in-wet and for artists who desire a full day’s working ability.
Archival Odourless Solvent is a general purpose, low toxicity solvent which may be used as a replacement for gum and mineral turpentine to thin paint and clean brushes.
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