Walnut Oil
Walnut oil is a natural oil that does not evaporate or remove essential oils from the artist's brushes.  The addition of walnut oil to colour will slow drying, enhance flow, and increase sheen.  Our walnut oil is designed to augment the special nature of our oil colour but it is completely compatible with other artists' oil colours and mediums.
 
Walnut oil has a unique refractive index.  The colours ground in this fine oil is more jewel-like and bright.  Using walnut oil allows us to increase the amount of pigment of each colour resulting in paints with the highest possible mass tone and tint strength and thus creating paintings saturated with extraordinary colour.
 
Walnut Alkyd Medium
Concentrated walnut alkyd medium thins the colour, accelerates drying, enhances adhesion between layers and increases surface sheen and flexibility while remaining essentially non-yellowing.  Our walnut alkyd is non-toxic and designed to augment the special nature of our oil colour but it is completely compatible with other artists' oil colours and mediums.
 
There are no solvents in the walnut alkyd medium.  It is an alcohol-based resin mixed with walnut oil.  Walnut alkyd medium is a drying agent but the most important feature is increased adhesion between the paint film and the painting surface and the paint layers themselves.  This makes for a more durable painting.  We recommend mixing 1 -3 drops per extruded inch of paint.  If you mix too much walnut alkyd medium with your paint, your paint will become sticky and will not dry and could possibly crack.