Impasto Medium, How To Thicken Your Oil Paints

Why Use Impasto Medium?

Paint In Heavy Impasto Techniques Without Wasting Valuable Pigment!

Layers Will Dry Without Shrinking, Cracking Or Wrinkling!

In this article we are focusing on LUKAS Impasto Oil Painting Medium used to mix with oil paints for impasto techniques.

What is an Impasto Medium?

Impasto mediums are ideal for thickening oil paints. One of the best benefits of using an impasto medium is that it dries evenly without, shrinking, cracking or wrinkling.

It does not waste paint yet still produces the desired pigment.

It is an pil paint thickening medium formulated with special drying agents and thickeners. in this article we discuss a special impasto medium from LUKAS which helps keep the thick constitution of heavy paint application with no leveling, ensuring that your paint structure remains.

Makes any oils better as it helps maintain brushstrokes and speeds the drying rate of oil colors.

For all the finest oil mediums view our Oil Painting Mediums

For all the finest oils view our artist selection of Oil paints

What paint is great to use for impasto oil?

A: LUKAS Painting Butter Impasto Oil Medium

Lukas impasto oil medium is a transparent, slightly amber-tinted mixture of alkyds, thickeners, and driers and is the same consistency as straight oil paint. Layers will dry without shrinking, cracking or wrinkling!.. see video below.

Paint in heavy impasto techniques

See Video using LUKAS Impasto Medium

What is Impasto Painting Butter?

Paint In Heavy Impasto Techniques Without Wasting Valuable Pigment!

We are talking about in this article, Lukas Painting Butter. Why LUKAS? It is very heavy bodied and mixing it with your paint allows you to paint in heavy impasto layers while not wasting pigment, plus it is alkyd base speeds up drying time of oil paint.

Key Benefits of LUKAS Impasto Oil Medium

Makes any oils better as it helps maintain brushstrokes and speeds the drying rate of oil colors

Thickens the paint and makes it so much easier to use a palette knife
Mixing it with your paint will thin the color somewhat but allows you to paint in heavy impasto layers while not wasting pigment
Ensures the layer dries completely and evenly
An indispensable medium for the oil artist fond of impasto and palette knife painting techniques
No need to add alot of paint to it to get the color you want
Dries evenly without wrinkling or cracking

LUKAS Painting Butter Impasto Oil Medium mixed with oil paint

Impasto painting butter customer reviews

“I LOVE This Stuff!
I love Lukas Painting Butter, both for my own work and in my workshops. It’s heavy texture and FAST drying time are “just the ticket” for my “knife paintings”. I have turned many of my students onto it, too! It’s now a staple of my “must-have” supplies.”