Zest It Cold Wax Painting Medium Review - Jackson's Art Blog

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Last updated 18 Jun 2024

Zest It Cold Wax Painting Medium Review - Jackson's Art Blog

Cold Wax Painting is a style of oil painting in which the artist mixes a wax medium into the paint and uses the thickened body of paint to create a heavily textured surface. You can paint with a small amount of cold wax medium to make your paint matt instead of glossy and this would probably still be considered regular oil painting. But if you use a substantial amount of cold wax medium in your oil paint then most painters would call that ‘Cold Wax Painting’. Some artists like Nicki Heenan even go so far as to put the wax first, painting with mostly cold wax medium and very little paint or pigment. Cold wax painters are often very experimental and Nicki Heenan is no exception. Unlike encaustic painting where you must heat the wax to make it fluid enough to paint with, cold wax is made with wax and a solvent (and sometimes a resin or oil) so that it stays creamy and can be mixed with paint or pigment powders without heating. There are a few makes of cold wax mediums that each have their own characteristics that will affect how each mixes with paint and the type

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