BINDERS, SOLVENTS, DRIERS, MEDIUMS VARNISHES & ADDITIVES

Green for Oil Gloss varnish is a final varnish used to protect your finished painting. A gloss varnish will further enhance the brightest and most vibrant colors in your painting. Mix with matt varnish for a satin finish.

This is the gel version of Flow ’N Dry alkyd medium.

Use it to speed drying and improve fluidity and gloss by adding 15–20% to paint. Suitable for impasto techniques, it comes in a 40 ml (1.4 oz) tube that travels well into the field for plein air painting.

Veronese medium is useful for melding adjacent brush strokes. Beeswax based, it provides a uniform matte finish, covers quickly, and makes pastes richer.

Thin Sennelier's Veronese Paste with very diluted medium (4 parts Veronese Paste to 1 part turpentine or mineral/white spirits).

Universal White Gesso provides a matte surface and exceptional tooth for maximum paint adhesion. It's perfect for painting with both acrylics and oils, on surfaces such as canvas, wood, paper, and board. Use it full strength, or dilute it with water up to 20% to achieve the desired consistency. It may also be tinted by pre-mixing it with Sennelier acrylic colors. As a preparation for acrylic paints, one layer of gesso is sufficient. For oil-based paints, two layers are recommended.

Semi-Absorbent Gesso for Watercolour creates a matte, porous surface similar to watercolor paper that allows for improved penetration and diffusion of color for watercolours, egg tempera, gouache, or casein. It also provides a resistance to water that is greater than traditional watercolor paper.

Universal White Gesso provides a matte surface and exceptional tooth for maximum paint adhesion. It's perfect for painting with both acrylics and oils, on surfaces such as canvas, wood, paper, and board. Use it full strength, or dilute it with water up to 20% to achieve the desired consistency. It may also be tinted by pre-mixing it with Sennelier acrylic colors. As a preparation for acrylic paints, one layer of gesso is sufficient. For oil-based paints, two layers are recommended.

Perfect size for large art works, sharing with fellow artists or in classroom settings. Air tight cover for best storage conditions. Works out to be almost 1/2 the price of the standard packaged sizes.

Red Ochre Gesso — Similar to White Gesso, Sennelier Colored Gesso provides exceptional coverage and a matte surface for maximum paint adhesion. An excellent surface for acrylic and oil-based paints, Sennelier Colored Gesso allows paintings to be started on an opaque, colored surface.

Yellow Ochre Gesso — Similar to White Gesso, Sennelier Colored Gesso provides exceptional coverage and a matte surface for maximum paint adhesion. An excellent surface for acrylic and oil-based paints, Sennelier Colored Gesso allows paintings to be started on an opaque, colored surface.

Light Grey Gesso — Similar to White Gesso, Sennelier Colored Gesso provides exceptional coverage and a matte surface for maximum paint adhesion. An excellent surface for acrylic and oil-based paints, Sennelier Colored Gesso allows paintings to be started on an opaque, colored surface.

Black Gesso — Similar to White Gesso, Sennelier Colored Gesso provides exceptional coverage and a matte surface for maximum paint adhesion. An excellent surface for acrylic and oil-based paints, Sennelier Colored Gesso allows paintings to be started on an opaque, colored surface.

Sennelier's Universal Medium is a liquid, colorless gloss medium. Shortens drying time, improves fluidity and increases gloss and transparency while leaving a uniform surface. It is non-yellowing.

Sennelier Turner Gloss Medium - Based on Damar gum, Turner Medium can be mixed with oil colors in any proportion. Turner Medium is particularly suited for work with fresh paints. It reinforces the cohesion of brush strokes, accentuates gloss, and it is useful for transparent washes and glazing.

Used to extend the oil colors or certain varnishes. This fuel oil has high penetrating power. Also used for cleaning brushes coated with fresh colors, because it does not dry out and unlike gum turpentine. 

Sennelier Essence De Petrole is a mineral spirit which has the advantage over the plant species to better keep in contact with air. Less greasy and less odorous when compared to turpentine, and evaporates less quickly. Used for extending colors or touch-up varnishes. 

Is also used for cleaning brushes coated with fresh colors, because it does not dry out and unlike gum turpentine. 

Allows you to significantly smooth thin brush strokes.

Linseed oil polymerised in the absence of air. Full bodied, very bright, clear, honey-like viscosity medium made by heating pure linseed.

Improves transparency, fluidity and smoothes brushstrokes. Can be used straight but, due to high viscosity, it is preferable to thin with spirits.

Excellent medium for glazing and detail work. Reduces possible appearance of cracking. Slows drying. Slightly yellowing. Favors gloss.

Sennelier clarified poppy seed oil is clearer and less yellowing than linseed oil, though also less effective as a dryer. It is recommended for light colours and blue tones.

Safflower Oil is a clarified vegetable oil, a good drier with low acidity. It is resistant to yellowing and has excellent compatibility with pigments. Mix with oil colors to accentuate their fluidity, transparency and gloss without altering the hue's brilliance during drying.   

Sennelier clarified linseed oil, purified, transparent, slightly yellowing, with a natural amber tint, and used to give body to pigment pastes.

This is a very attractive varnish with an unbeatable gloss appearance, and it is also one of the most expensive. Used a great deal by past generations of painters.

33% Mastic gum (from Chios) final painting varnish. Resistant film, high gloss and high build, with a tendency to discolor slightly over time. Easily reversible. Only apply on completely dry paint. Thinner: Rectified Turpentine spirit.

Sennelier's Flow Dry / Alkyd Medium - oil based resin medium accelerates drying time and provides a creamy texture to oil paint, improving fluidity and increasing gloss. It resists yellowing. Ideally suited for glazes.

Modeling Paste allows the creation of coatings and relief. It holds tool marks and keeps the imprint of the relief created perfectly, while offering great suppleness to the film. It can be applied as it is or tinted by pre-mixing with Sennelier Acrylique colors to achieve desired colour. When mixed, the original tone of the Sennelier Acrylique color will be slightly lighter. When drying, it produces a very fine, granular, off-white surface, which can be painted, sanded, or sculpted. It is watersoluble, dries rapidly, and is water-resistant when dry.

Light Modeling Paste is a white paste with a light, supple, airy consistency allowing the creation of coatings and relief. It holds tool marks and keeps perfectly the imprint of the relief created, while offering great suppleness to the film. It can be applied as it is or tinted by pre-mixing it with Sennelier Acrylique Paints, with very little shade alteration. When dry, it can be painted, sanded, or sculpted. It is watersoluble, dries rapidly, and is water-resistant when dry.

Thick Modeling Paste allows the creation of coatings and relief. It holds tool marks and keeps the imprint of the relief created perfectly, while offering great suppleness to the film. It can be applied as it is or tinted by pre-mixing with Sennelier Acrylique colors to achieve the desired colour. When mixed, the original tone of the Sennelier Acrylique color will be slightly lighter. When drying, it produces a rough, granular, off-white surface, which can be painted, sanded, or sculpted. It is watersoluble, dries rapidly, and is water-resistant when dry.

Gloss Gel Medium — With a texture similar to Sennelier Extra-Fine Acrylique Paint, Gloss Gel Medium improves the transparency, depth, and brightness of colors. Add it in any proportion to the acrylic paint, or mix it with Sennelier Matte Gel Medium to create satin effects. It is watersoluble, and dries rapidly to a transparent, water-resistant, non-cracking finish.

Sennelier Thick Gloss Gel Medium is thicker than Sennelier Extra-Fine Acrylique Paint and adds to the consistency of the acrylic paint. It retains tool marks and relief imprints, and improves the transparency, depth, and brightness of colors. Add it in any proportion to the paint, or mix it with Thick Matte Gel Medium to create a satin effect. It is watersoluble, and dries rapidly to a transparent, water-resistant, non-cracking finish.

Matt Gel Medium — With a texture similar to Sennelier Extra-Fine Acrylique Paint, Matte Gel Medium improves the transparency, depth, and matte quality of colors. Add it in any proportion to the acrylic paint, or mix it with Sennelier Gloss Gel Medium to create satin effects. It is watersoluble, and dries rapidly to a translucent, water-resistant, non-cracking finish.

Matt Thick Gel Medium is thicker than Sennelier Extra-Fine Acrylique Paint and adds to the consistency of the paint. It retains tool marks and relief imprints, and improves the transparency, depth, and matte quality of colors. Add it in any proportion to the paint, or mix it with Thick Gloss Gel Medium to create a satin effect. It is watersoluble and dries to a translucent finish.

Add Matt Fluid Medium to Sennelier Extra-Fine Acrylique Paint to improve its fluidity, transparency, and matte quality. Add it in any proportion, or mix it with Gloss Fluid Medium to achieve a satin effect.

Matt Fluid Medium is watersoluble, and dries rapidly to a translucent, water-resistant finish.

Bright fluid medium is indispensable for optimizing the qualities of Sennelier Extra-Fine Acrylique Paints. These acrylique fluid mediums create a wide variety of effects and have an adhesive property that adapts well to collage and inlay work.

Add Gloss Fluid Glazing Medium to Sennelier Extra-Fine Acrylique Paint to improve fluidity, luminosity, and depth of the colors, and to create gloss glazes.

 It is watersoluble and is dries rapidly to give a transparent, water-resistant finish.

It can be applied with a paintbrush or brush on a completely dry surface. Containing anti-UV agents, it creates a protective film that attenuates the brightness of colours and is resistant to the harmful effects of light and to scratches.

To be used as it is or diluted in water. It can be mixed with gloss lacquer to obtain a custom satin finish. Interior or exterior use. Translucent, non-yellowing, water resistant, and irreversible when dry.

It can be applied with a paintbrush or brush on a completely dry surface. Containing anti-UV agents, it creates a protective film that attenuates the brightness of colours and is resistant to the harmful effects of light and to scratches.

To be used as it is or diluted in water. It can be mixed with gloss lacquer to obtain a custom satin finish. Interior or exterior use. Translucent, nonyellowing, water resistant, and irreversible when dry.