Winsor & Newton 250ml Liquin Original

Graet winsor & Newton product, as usual.

I've been using Liquin Original for years. When I trained in fine art in Italy, just about every academy recommended it as basic equipment for every painter. It is a fixotropic liquid, so you have to shake it up to get it moving (a bit like tomato ketchup). It then becomes a thick liquid, the colour of weak tea, which is mixed with oil paint and other additives to make a workable paint. I use it with mineral spirit and linseed oil to make a general purpose medium. It produces a paint with a creamy consistency, which I've found most brushes handle well. if you need a drier in the mixture, such as a drop of cobalt, it;s fine with that, too. Despite it's colour, it doesn't dis-colour paint. Added to white, the white remains white. Liquin is generally much cheaper in larger bottles. I'd avoid buying too much in one go though, because it does go off after a year or so. When left out on a palette, it will dry in a few days, to produce a kind of latex material. It cleans out of brushes easily, so long as you don't leave it to dry on the brush.

Mixes well with oils

This is a good medium to use, with water mixable oil paints, it loosens the paint and makes it easier to paint details. I would recommend it

This stuff is magic - it gives my paintings a lovely glazed quality. And of course the paint dries in no time so you can put layer upon layer. God knows what the conservators of the future will think. I recently read a criticism of Howard Hodgkin's work saying his paintings look better in reproduction than in the flesh owing to Liquin. Does this worry me? I can live with that.

It is used to help the flow and drying time of oil paint. It’s good value for money, and it’s safe to use.

Great for detailed work! The paint flows nicely without being too thinned out so it turns transparent. Gives the same feel that I get with extra refined linseed oil, but you get the glossy finish and the quick drying time of Liquin.

Made the paint too glossy

Ravie de constater que ma peinture à l'huile sèche beaucoup plus vite et rend mes couleurs bien intenses et brillantes. J'adore 😁

Le likin est parfait pour peindre à l’huile quasi sans odeur. De plus, fini de devoir faire attention au gras sur maigre .... les temps de séchage sont grandement accélérés, sans pour autant atteindre la rapidité de séchage de l’acrylique. Vous pouvez donc travailler malgré tout dans le frais pendant toute votre journée de travail. J’adore.

Sehr gut!!!

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Works really well for oil painting, my favorite product for painting