Walnut Oil Gel is a thixotropic painting medium made with walnut oil and pyrogenic silica. Walnut Oil Gel is a clear pale amber gel that adds transparency and thixotropic body to oil, resin-oil or alkyd paint. Add directly to your paint to give it transparency without thinning its consistency. Add pigments or extenders to thicken it for creating impasto effects that do not sink in.
Walnut Oil Gel does not contain driers or solvents, so it is safe to use in oil painting without worry of cracking. When mixed with oil colors, Walnut Oil Gel will increase the drying time. Walnut Oil Gel adds transparency to whites without losing the body of the paint Walnut Oil Gel in the center, Lead White on the left and a mixture of Walnut Oil Gel and Lead White on the right. Lead White is stiff, plastic and short, but when mixed with Walnut Oil Gel the mixture is semi-transparent, soft, yet sculptural.