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 Safflower Oil is a slow drying oil which improves the flow and is well suited for pale colours.
• It improves the flow of oil paints while also increasing gloss & transparency.
• This oil is best used on its own, as it may cause cracking if overpainted with linseed oil.
• ART.NO. 3021756
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.