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Papyrus
Starting at: £24.25
30cm x 40cm / 12" x 16", 5 Sheets, Made by hand in the traditional manner from Papyrus reeds. Learn More -
Natural Beeswax
Starting at: £11.20
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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Daler-Rowney Cryla 75ml
Starting at: £8.30
Cryla Artists' Heavy Body colours are designed to retain the intended stroke when applied with a knife or brush, so they are ideal for highly textured impasto painting techniques. Learn More -
Verdigris Deep Pigment
£18.00Made to a historical recipe, this Verdigris, unlike others available, has been doubly distilled and therefore more stable than basic Verdigris. This rich green is a translucent pigment with a fine grain.
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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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Liquid Glass Mediums
Starting at: £19.50
Renaissance Materials by Dr. David Cranswick.
A thick glazing medium of the 'Old Masters'. Liquid Glass Mediums facilitate building up layers of transparent glaze. Gloss or Satin.
Contains: Damar resin, linseed oil and beeswax (for Satin medium only)
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Primed Linen Panels
Starting at: £10.50
Hand-primed pure Belgian linen. Oil or Acrylic (universally) primed. Learn More -
Roberson Cold Pressed Linseed Oil
Starting at: £6.60
Linseed Oil is derived from flax seeds, and appears on our shelves in many guises: Cold Pressed, Refined, Stand Oil, and as a key ingredient in many mediums. It has been appreciated for its drying properties since the Medieval period, and has become the most popular oil used in painting today due to the strong, flexible and glossy film that it creates. Cold Pressed Linseed Oil is ideal for the grinding of pigment to make oil paints. The process of producing Cold Pressed Linseed Oil results in a lower yield, but the resultant oil is of a superior quality to oil that has been extracted by other methods, creating a paint film that is more resistant to embrittlement on aging. Its slight yellow colour is caused by the high concentration of linolenic acid, the presence of which provides durability to the paint film. The amount of oil that each pigment requires can vary enormously. Alizarin Crimson, for example, requires a high percentage of oil compared to most other colours. We would always recommend mulling the pigment and oil together thoroughly to create a "short" or buttery paste, with evenly dispersed, well-coated pigment particles. This process contributes to the strength and flexibility of the paint film, and prevents the inclusion of excess oil. Origin: USA Learn More -
Omega Series 1067 Lily Varnish
Starting at: £15.50
Thick hog hair brush or varnishing or painting on a large scale. Learn More -
Paraffin Wax
Starting at: £6.60
Paraffin Wax is a by-product of the petro-chemical industry. It has a low melting point of 50-60°c and a brittle texture, making it unsuitable for encaustic painting or as an additive to oil paints, but it can be used to impart softness to lithographic crayons. As a petroleum product, it is more inert than animal or vegetable waxes, and is therefore not saponified (turned into soap) by alkali substances. Learn More -
Roberson Florentine Medium
Starting at: £9.30
When Roberson Florentine Medium is mixed with oil colour, it is possible to paint freely on textile fabrics, which will stand up to subsequent hand-washing with soap and water. It may also be used when painting with oils on unprepared paper. Learn More -
Gamblin Cold Wax Medium
Starting at: £10.30
Cold Wax medium is made by Gamblin. They say:
"Cold Wax medium is made from naturally white, pure beeswax. Formulated to knife consistency, Cold Wax Medium makes oil colours thicker and more matte. Cold Wax Medium can be used to make Gamblin mediums and Gamvar more matte. It can also be applied alone as a matte varnish."
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Kelmscott
Starting at: £13.00
Specially prepared to give a very smooth surface for painting or calligraphy. Learn More -
Liquitex Acrylic Varnish Gloss
Starting at: £17.35
Increases colour brilliance and transparency. Promotes flow and levelling. Use as varnish over varnished painting to add gloss and depth of colour. Non removable. 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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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 -
Roberson Exhibition Varnish
Starting at: £6.80
Apply to touch dry paintings as a temporary exhibition varnish. After 6 months a final picture varnish can be applied with no need to remove Ketone resin/white spirit. Unable to send overseas. Learn More -
ArtGraf Red Tailor shape
£5.80Inspired by traditional tailor’s chalk block, prepared for drawing and painting. Water soluble and extremely soft. Learn More -
Bockingford Inkjet Paper
Starting at: £21.75
190GSM, A4 / A3+, 20 Sheets, CP (NOT), pH Neutral, Acid Free, Archival, White. Learn More -
Cornelissen Walnut Oil
Starting at: £6.50
The introduction of Walnut Oil as a pigment binder is contemporaneous with the emergence of Linseed Oil. Their drying properties have been appreciated since the Middle Ages, and throughout history there is evidence of both oils being used alongside each other within the same painting. In fact, until the sixteenth century, it is believed that Walnut Oil was the preferred binding medium among Italian artists. It is made from mature walnut kernals, offering a pale colour and brilliant gloss. For this reason, it is sometimes chosen as a binder for light colours, as it provides a stronger paint film than Poppy Oil, and faster drying times. However, a paint film made from Walnut Oil will tend to be brittle, so it is more suited to a rigid support rather than canvas.
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Parchment Clippings
Starting at: £9.90
Parchment Clippings, usually waste goatskin vellum, were utilised throughout the Middle Ages to make an animal hide glue. This continued to be commonly used as a sizing for canvas before rabbit skin glue came to prominence in the nineteenth century. Parchment glue is comparable to isinglass glue, as it also produces a very pale, almost transparent glue with a degree of flexibility. Our parchment clippings are a mixture of vellum scraps, and may include goatskin, calfskin and sheepskin. Cennino Cennini gives a recipe for gesso using parchment in his treatise about painting; please see below for our recipe. Learn More -
Talens Acrylic Picture Varnishes Aerosol
Starting at: £13.00
Aerosol varnish for oil or acrylic paintings. Gloss or Matt finishes. Unable to send overseas. Learn More -
Unison 8 Landscape Assorted Pastels
£40.55The Unison Classic 8 set, specially selected by John Hersey for Landscape painting. Unison Colour Soft pastels allow for ease of use with a highly blendable texture.
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da Vinci Series 5570 Cosmotop Nova Round
Starting at: £3.35
Finest golden synthetic fibre. More springy than Cosmotop Spin making it an excellent brush for watercolour, gouache, acrylic and oil painting. Learn More -
Lemon Shellac
Starting at: £8.20
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 -
Zinc White Pigment
Starting at: £4.00
Zinc White, or Zinc Oxide, is an artificial mineral pigment that was first produced in France in the late 18th century. Its use in commercial watercolours as Chinese White pre-dates its inclusion in oil painting. It is a semi-opaque, lightfast pigment, which dries very slowly in oil. Of all white pigments, it produces the most brittle paint film, so is not recommended in large quantities for impasto techniques. However, it is a good addition to a palette which requires a less overwhelming white than Titanium White.
Toxicity: B
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Omega Series 79 Al Fresco
Starting at: £12.20
Long grey bristle and string ferrule. Holds colour well for fresco painting. Learn More -
Azurite Pigment
Starting at: £11.80
PB30
Azurite is a naturally occuring copper carbonate, with a long history within European and Asian painting. It was mined in northern Europe, so was a less expensive source of blue than Lapis Lazuli, which was imported from Afghanistan. Medieval artists would often use Azurite in underpaintings, before applying layers of Lapis Lazuli during later stages of production.
It is best used in aqueous media, as the acidity of oils can cause it to darken in colour, although this can be somewhat counteracted by protecting the pigment particles with a protein such as egg yolk. It has a very low tinting strength, and the particle size tends to be quite large, to give a darker colour. It is sensitive to damp conditions, and is slightly transparent.
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Cornelissen Miniature Coloured Pencil Set
£5.00This pencil set comprising of the highest quality strongly pigmented coloured pencils is a perfect companion when sketching on the go. Pair it with one of our enamel watercolour sets and watercolour postcard books for a compact art set for plein air painting.
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