Gamblin Gel Mediums

Neo Megilp Oil Painting Medium gives body to paint, decrease viscosity, and can produce luminous Turner-like atmosphere, suspending and supporting paint in a soft, silky gel. Based on alkyd resin, Neo Megilp is made without lead or turpentine and can replace Maroger Medium for artist who love the working properties but are concerned about yellowing or darkening. Neo Megilp has less drag on the brush than the Galkyds.

Galkyd Gel is gelled painting medium formulated to hold marks and brush strokes while it makes paint more transparent. You can even create a transparent impasto. G-Gel makes an approximately 1/4" thick for each layer. G-Gel is not loaded with driers, so it does not dry as fast as most gel mediums.

Gamblin Cold Wax Medium can be used to make oil colors thicker and more matte. A soft paste formulated to knife consistency, Gamblin Cold Wax medium is made from naturally white, unbleached beeswax and OMS. Gamblin Cold Wax Medium can be thinned to brush consistency by mixing a small amount of OMS. The surface of paintings made with large amount of wax mediums will become only as hard as a beeswax candle. Adding Galkyd to a cold wax medium /oil colors mix will increase the sheen and flexibility of the paint film.

Gel Mediums create transparent impasto.
Cold Wax Medium creates matte impasto.

Most mediums and medium mixtures work best in thin layers. When choosing to paint in thick layers, consider how the layers adhere to each other.

Suggestions:
*add a clear glaze layer of Galkyd thinned with solvent then add the next paint layer immediately "wet into wet"
*make and use the same medium formula for each painting. The simpler the structure of a painting, the longer it lives.
*paint fat over lean by adding more solvent and less medium in the under layers and adding more painting medium and less solvent into he upper layers.
*work on panels or other rigid supports so the surface of the painting does not move over time.

Gamblin Mixing Guide

TO MAKE GLAZE IMPASTO
Add Neo Megilp 90% + oil colors 10% makes a soft glaze impasto that is slow drying.

GALKYD GEL MEDIUMS MIXTURES
*Galkyd gel is a fast drying medium
*Galkyd gel 10% + oil paints 90% enhances transparency without decreasing viscosity.
*Galkyd gel 90% + oil paints 10% creates a glaze impasto, a technique unavailable to Old Masters
*Galkyd gel 90% + Galkyd 10% decreases viscosity and increases flow.
*Add Poppy Oil 10% to decrease viscosity and slow drying time.

COLD WAX MEDIUM MIXTURES
*Mix Cold wax Medium 50% + Galkyd Gel 50% makes thick translucent layers that can be applied to linen or canvas on flexible supports. Adding 10% Galkyd increases the flow.
*A mixture of more than 30% Cold Wax Medium + oil colors is best painted on rigid supports.
*CAUTION: Oil paintings made with more than 50% Cold Wax Medium to oil paint mixtures are very sensitive to heat. Store at temperatures below 100F. Avoid direct sunlight. Naturally white, unbleached beeswax melts.