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Rose Madder Genuine Pigment
Starting at: £15.80
NR9 Rose Madder is an alizarin lake pigment made by precipitating dye extracted from madder root onto an inert base. It has largely been replaced by synthetic alizarin pigments, but it is still used as an ingredient in some commercially-available paints. It provides a very transparent pigment, with a weak tinting strength, which can be used in all lime-free media, although it is very slow-drying in oil. It is fugitive to sunlight, so paintings containing Madder should be stored appropriately, but it remains one of the most lightfast plant-based pigments. It requires a wetting agent to aid dispersion. Larger quantities are available by request Learn More -
Winsor & Newton Series 7 Miniature
Starting at: £17.90
Extra short haired brushes for miniature painting. Kolinsky sable. Learn More
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da Vinci Series 1870 Nova Flat
Starting at: £2.70
Long handled synthetic brush for acrylic or oil painting. Soft bristles. Learn More -
Lefranc Retouching Varnish Extra Fine
Starting at: £7.80
Acrylic resin/quick drying petroleum. Colourless and non-yellowing. Allows you to touch up ols paintings. Temporary and insulating varnish. Satin finish. Learn More -
Schmincke Masking Fluid
Starting at: £7.35
Drawing gum for masking specific areas which should remain white on water-colour paper, smooth drawing carton, photographs or films. For direct application with the dispensing bottle. Contains: synthetic resin dispersion without ammonia. Learn More -
Roberson Glass Mullers
Starting at: £24.50
Roberson Glass Mullers are handmade using high quality-glass.
Mullers act as flat-bottomed pestles, which are used to grind pigment into a binding medium, suspending it evenly to create a uniform covering of binder around each pigment particle. Using a muller and slab, rather than simply mixing pigment and binder together, will create a more homogenised and stable paint.
Use in conjunction with a Cornelissen Glass Slab to make paint efficiently. The sand-blasted texture of the muller and plate helps to push and distribute the pigment throughout the binder quickly. This will mean less grinding, and more painting!
NOTE: Sizes may vary slightly as these are handmade products.
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Liquitex Acrylic Varnish Satin
Starting at: £17.35
Use as varnish over finished paintings. Learn More -
ArtGraf Blue Tailor shape
£5.80Inspired by traditional tailor’s chalk block, prepared for drawing and painting. Water soluble and extremely soft. Learn More -
Arches for Oil Pads
Starting at: £21.95
Mould-made, 100% cotton, natural white (Neutral pH acid free). 12 sheets per pad, NOT surfaced. Specially designed for oil painting. Ready to use. Learn More -
Lefranc Safflower Oil
Starting at: £8.40
Lefranc Bourgeois are a paint manufacturer with a long history of supplying to artists since their beginnings in 1720. From their website: Safflower Oil enhances the fluidity of oil paintings. Lighter in colour than Linseed Oil, it does not yellow and dries faster than Poppy Seed Oil. It improves the flow of the paste and the intensity and transparency of colours. It also works particularly well with different white shades and light colours. Learn More -
Clear Dewaxed Shellac
Starting at: £9.20
Shellac is a natural resin that is deposited by the female lac insect on the branches of trees in India and Thailand. It is soluble with alcohol, but not with mineral spirits or turpentine. It forms a tough yet flexible film, with many applications. It is suitable as a top coat for gilding when applied thinly, a sealant for porous surfaces, an isolating layer for tempera paintings, a base for pigmented inks, a protective layer for collograph plates, and a warm varnish for wooden floors and furniture. As it is prone to darkening with age, it is not recommended as a varnish for oils, and its solubility can reduce over time. There are various grades of shellac. When mixed with alcohol, it may initially form a cloudy mixture, due to traces of wax in the shellac, but this should become clear once it has dried. The highest grades of shellac are Clear Dewaxed Shellac, which has been de-coloured using the carbon filtering method, Lemon Shellac, and Orange Shellac, which are pale in colour. Button Shellac is less refined and therefore produces a reddish varnish. It was, in fact, widely used as a red dye before synthetic dyes became available. Learn More -
da Vinci Series 1670 Nova Round
Starting at: £2.65
Long handled synthetic brush or acrylic or oil painting. Soft bristles. Learn More -
Unison 8 Portrait Assorted Pastels
£40.55The Unison classic Portrait 8 set, specially selected by John Hersey for portrait painting. Unison Colour Soft pastels allow for ease of use with a highly blendable texture.
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Gamblin Gamvar Varnish Gloss
Starting at: £14.00
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Gamvar Picture Varnish saturates colors in your painting and gives your work a unified and protective surface. Developed in collaboration with the National Gallery of Art, Gamvar goes on water-clear, stays water-clear and can be easily and safely removed with Gamsol. Gamvar is virtually odorless and ready to apply. Brush apply. Do not spray. All Gamvar can be applied when the thickest areas of your painting are thoroughly dry and firm to the touch. Please visit our Video Demos page for additional information. Learn More -
Roberson Pure Gum Turpentine
Starting at: £10.50
Slightly less refined than rectified spirit of turpentine. Often preferred as constituent of painting mediums. Learn More -
Epping Forest Yellow Ochre Pigment
£12.00This soft yellow ochre is sourced from near the ancient woodland of Epping Forest in North London. Given legal status by Henry ll as a Royal hunting ground for the Monarchy this forest has a rich cultural and geological history. This pigment is a fine particle size and is semi-opaque.
Follow @londonpigment on Instagram for an insight into the stories behind the colours and how she makes them.
NOTE: many of these colours are made in extrmely limited batches so please email us at info@cornelissen.com for further infomation on what is currently availible.
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Khadi Grey Paper Packs
Starting at: £2.65
Handmade from 100% long fibred cotton rag. Acid free. Deckle edge. Tub sized (surface sized) with gelatine. Learn More -
Schmincke Mussini Oil Medium 3
Starting at: £7.95
Highly siccative painting medium. Dries on the palette with 40 minutes. Use sparingly to prevent gloss.
From the Schmincke website:
Medium for oil colours rich in resin (“lean”). Accelerates drying; increases gloss and depth; makes the colour layers more resistant. Close immediately after use. Dosage: 10% to 20%.
Contains: aldehyde resin, mineral spirit, siccative, stand oil.
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Schmincke AQUA Watercolour Primer
Starting at: £13.95
Allows watercolour paint to be used on various surfaces such as canvas, painting boards and wood. Learn More -
Gypsum
Starting at: £5.70
Gypsum is powdered Calcium Sulphate, a traditional ingredient in gesso grounds used in southern Europe. One of the advantages of preparing your painting surface with gypsum is that it allows for a particularly even absorption of the paint film. It can also be added to acrylic primers to increase absorbency or add tooth to a surface. Learn More -
Cornelissen Larch Venice Turpentine
Starting at: £18.00
Venice Trupentine is a thick, resinous liquid extracted from the Larix decidua, a larch tree native to Austria. It can impart luminosity, brilliance and gloss when used in mediums and varnishes, and as such it was highly valued during the Golden Age of painting in Venice. It is a slow-drying balsam, which can be diluted with turpentine or placed in a bath of warm water to aid flow.
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Schmincke Medium W
Starting at: £8.05
Schmincke Medium W is an odourless, jelly-like ("lean") medium for mixing oil colours with water instead of organic solvents such as turpentine or turpentine substitute. It increases gloss and transparency, reduces viscosity and harmonizes the drying process.
Dosage: 50%
Thinner: Water
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Lascaux Screen Filler 500ml
£39.00The Lascaux Screen filler and Lascaux Screen painting fluid may be used for painting directly on the mesh as part of a waterbased screenprinting system. These products work harmoniously with Lascaux Screenprinting paste and the Lascaux Colours. Learn More -
Bleached Beeswax
Starting at: £12.30
Beeswax is derived from melted honeycomb, and is available in two grades. Bleached Beeswax Pellets are white, having been bleached by the sun, and are an appropriate choice for using with pale colours, although they may revert to yellow over time. Natural Beeswax Pellets are yellow in colour, and offer a more flexible structure with a higher resin content. Beeswax has a melting point of 63-66°c, and may turn brown if over-heated. It is the most widely used wax in artists' materials, having a wide range of applications. Please see below for more details.
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Schmincke Oil Medium N
Starting at: £8.05
This product does not contain turpentine, and can therefore be suitable for artists with allergies.
From the Schmincke website:
A neutral, nearly non-yellowing, painting and thinning medium for oil colours. Suitable for all painting techniques except for early layers on absorbent undergrounds (not lean enough); has a low impact on drying time. For dilution, use terpin (max. 30%). Dosage: 10 to max. 20%. Contains: alkyd and acrylic resin, mineral spirit.
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Carnauba Wax Grey
Starting at: £8.40
Carnauba Wax is the hardest wax commonly used in the production of artists' materials, with a melting point of 83-86°c. It is derived from a tree native to South America, and is available in a natural colour (grey), or a refined colour (pale yellow). Small amounts of carnauba wax are commonly used in both oil painting mediums and encaustic painting, usually in conjunction with beeswax to add toughness, durability and sheen to the paint film. It creates an inflexible surface, so works best on rigid supports such as gesso panels, and it should be noted that it will raise the melting point of encaustic mixtures. It can produce a glossy finish; as such it is used in waxes and polishes for shoes, cars, musical instruments, furniture, and wooden floors, especially when mixed with beeswax and turpentine. Learn More -
Casein Lactic
Starting at: £18.30
Casein is a protein derived from dried milk, which has been used in painting since ancient times. It can be combined with Ammonium Carbonate to form an emulsion, which acts as a durable, non-resoluble binder for pigments, producing a matte, fast-drying paint, similar in appearance to egg tempera. We use casein as a binder for our L. Cornelissen & Son Pigment Colour Charts, as it is a medium that clearly showcases the characteristics and behaviour of each pigment in its pure form. Casein paints can be applied in thin layers to watercolour paper, but would require a more rigid support, such as a gesso panel, to be applied thickly, as the comparative inflexibility of the paint layer means that it can be prone to cracking. Subsequent layers of paint should be more diluted to aid adhesion, and impasto effects are not recommended. It is possible to varnish casein paintings using an acrylic or damar varnish to obtain a glossy surface if desired, although this is not a necessary step. Casein can also be used as an ingredient in gesso, and is a suitable binder for fresco secco techniques.
Some pigments may require a wetting agent in order to fully disperse within the binder, in which case alcohol may be used.
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Liquitex Acrylic Fabric Medium
Starting at: £10.50
Enhances blending, workability, and adhesion of acrylic colours for painting acrylics directly on to fabric. Reduces paint stiffness. No heat setting required. Learn More -
Lascaux Studio Acrylic Colours 85ml
Starting at: £11.10
Lascaux Studio Original is an artists’ quality acrylic paint. This exceptional quality acrylic is highly versatile and suitable for all painting techniques. The paint is highly pigmented, lightfast, non-ageing and non-yellowing with very good coating flexibility and water-resistant when dry. The colour range is optimised to give the same working qualities for each colour. So all colours have the same viscosity, opacity and dry to the same semi-gloss sheen. This uniform covering power is ideal for effortless creation of monochrome surfaces. There is also minimal colour shift from wet to dry. *Please note, this range is stored offsite. Please allow extra time for your order to be processed and dispatched. Learn More -
Cinnabar Pigment
Starting at: £16.00
PR106
Cinnabar, composed of mercuric sulphide, is a mineral pigment found in crusts or veins in sites of volcanic activity. It has good tinting strength and opacity but, like many red pigments, it dries very slowly in oil media. Due to its high toxicity, it is no longer an ingredient in commercial paints, but is a prominent colour in historical palettes.
Generally, Cinnabar refers to the natural mineral, while Vermilion refers to the synthetic pigment. Cinnabar has been mined since at least the tenth millennium BC, and used as a painting material, gemstone, and ritual object by many cultures around the globe.
Larger sizes available on request.
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