Wet Paint always strives to present a
wide range of paint choices for a wide range of artistic visions. While
you may be familiar with the more traditional media of oil, watercolor,
gouache and acrylic, you may not know that there are many other professional
paint options as well.
Water Miscible (mixable) Oil
While technically still an oil paint, water mixable oils—as
the name implies—can be cleaned with soap and water. This paint
is made from an oil that has been chemically altered to thin in water
mediums. Mediums are also manufactured from the same manipulated oil.
By adding water mixable mediums to water mixable oil paint, one can
achieve effects similar to those gotten with traditional oil paint and
glazing mediums. Wet Paint carries Holbein’s Duo and Winsor & Newton’s Artisan water mixable
oils.
Alkyds
Alkyd paint
is pigment suspended in a plastic resin that has been modified with
oil (to duplicate the flexibility of traditional oil paint) and solvent.
Alkyd is a very fast-drying paint and can be used in
conjunction with traditional oil paint to increase its drying time.
Wet Paint has the full line of Winsor & Newton’s Griffin alkyd paint, as well as Graham’s 5 oz. tubes of Titanium
White alkyd.
Casein
New at Wet Paint is Shiva’s
Signa-sein Casein. Casein is made from soured skim
milk. The curd is separated from the whey, dried and cleaned.
When the dried curd is powdered and mixed with water and an ammonium
compound, it creates a lovely binder for artist’s pigment! Casein
is fast drying, water-soluble and dries permanent to a hard, matte finish. You can apply casein wash-thin or impasto-thick.
Cavemen and women used this paint—maybe you should, too.
Egg Tempera
Egg tempera was the artist’s
paint before the advent of oil paint technology. Where casein uses the
curd of soured milk, egg tempera uses egg yolk as its
binder. When pigment is added to this oil-in-water emulsion, it produces
a water-soluble, quick-drying paint. Egg tempera is used most successfully
on a small-scale, rigid surface and in thin, layered applications, as
in traditional icon paints. Wet Paint carries Sennelier’s
line of egg tempera paint.
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