FUMED SILICA – 100ML

Description

Fumed Silica is an inert substance with coarse texture and no colouring capability. Use in grounds and to provide tooth to mixed paints. Also used as an adulterant. Can be used for thickening acrylic and oil mediums.

Fumed silica and linseed oil are the essential ingredients of oleogel which  is a thixotropic painting medium . Oleogel 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. Recently, Oleogel received great reviews by artists, the following is a quote from the Natural Pigments Website:

Oleogel is a thixotropic gel (having a viscosity that decreases when stress is applied: the gel becomes fluid when shaken or stirred) medium made with linseed oil and pyrogenic silica.” What it looks like is a clear, pale amber gel that will add transparency and thixotropic body to oil, resin oil, or alkyd paint. Add Oleogel directly to your paint to give it transparency without thinning its consistency.” Oleogel does not contain driers, which can sometimes lead to cracking. Because it contains linseed oil, Oleogel may cause your painting to yellow slightly over time, though I’ve never seen this happen with Oleogel or any other linseed-based medium. In fact, most paint companies use pigment and linseed oil as the two ingredients in oil paint. Finally, Oleogel appears to be very safe.”