Langridge Cold Wax Medium 120ml

Wax medium with a thick, buttery consistency.
Highly stable impasto medium that keeps colours bright.
The surface has a lustrous physical quality with paint films of 2mm thick or more).

Constituents
Stand Oil (40 Poise), Microcrystalline Wax, Distilled Gum Turpentine, Damar Resin, Cobalt Drier.

Product Application

Langridge Wax Painting Paste may be added to oil colour at the discretion of the artist. Mixed with oil colours, it will add body or thickness.

It has been formulated to be added in any proportion desired but is highly effective as an impasto medium for extending oil colours whilst keeping a strong bodied brush or palette knife stroke. The wax content holds brush marks so that robust direct painting techniques may be achieved effortlessly.

Wax holds its shape during and after full drying, without the dangers of ‘surface-crawl’ and excessive yellowing evident in thick oil mediums that use fillers such as Alumina Hydrate, Aluminium Strearate and similar reology altering agents (Reology refers to the flow characteristics of fluid materials).

By adding Wax Painting Paste in quantities over 70% coloured translucent glazes are created.

Using Wax Painting Paste as a glaze gives paintings a soft glow, particularly when used over pale background colours.

Because wax is not absolutely clear it will reduce the depth of tone of colours. For this reason, Langridge does not recommend using wax mediums if wanting very dark passages of colour in a painting.

Wax Painting Paste is slow drying allowing for a wet-in-wet technique with very controlled manipulation of paint including soft blending. As the paint is brushed out stroke-marks will be held in place.

The Stand Oil base ensures pale colours stay bright even when used in high proportions with oil colours.

Langridge Wax Painting Paste has a high wax content and is not recommended for underpainting unless all succeeding layers also employ wax medium in similar or higher proportions.