Description
• Winsor & Newton Drying Oils are made with the same vegetable oils used to formulate the oil colours, namely, linseed, safflower & poppy.
• Drying Oils are used to modify the consistency & drying time of oil paints in much the same way as prepared mediums.
• The different processing methods of these oils results in a range of drying rates, consistencies & colours.
• Winsor & Newton Refined Linseed Oil is their most popular oil.
• It is a low viscosity alkali refined oil of pale colour that dries slowly.
• Refined Linseed Oil reduces the consistency of oil colours.
• It is more fluid than unrefined oils & helps increase gloss, transparency & flow of colours.
• Refined Linseed oil slows the drying of oil colours and is slower-drying than cold pressed Linseed.
• ART.NO. 3021748
Winsor & Newton (also abbreviated W&N) is an English manufacturing company based in London that produces a wide variety of fine art products, including acrylics, oils, watercolour, gouache, brushes, canvases, papers, inks, graphite and coloured pencils, markers, and charcoals.
The standards of quality for W&N's most renowned line of kolinsky sable brush, the Series 7, began after Queen Victoria ordered it should be "the very finest watercolour brush" in 1866[citation needed]. A few months before his death, Henry Newton sold the business to the newly incorporated firm of "Winsor & Newton Ltd.", which included members of both families amongst the shareholders. In 1937, W&N introduced its gouache paints.