Sennelier Oil Color Solvents

Rectified Turpentine - Is pure natural balsam with the consistency of honey. Add as a plasticizer and gloss enhancing agent to oil colors, varnishes, and mediums. Creates jewel-like quality with a tough enamel-like surface. Avoid excess. This thinner is very useful during the abbozzo or sketch phase. It is completely possible to produce a painting only using Rectified Turpentine Spirits. Please let us know if you have any other questions or concerns.

Yes, Sennelier Turpentine can be used as a blending medium for prismacolor pencils. Before you try any solvent on a colored pencil, test it on a piece of scrap paper. You want to make sure the paper will stand up to a solvent blend. Nothing is more discouraging than to have your paper buckle or warp when it gets wet. It’s also a good idea to see how colors react to the various solvents before blending a drawing. While solvent blends are appropriate in most cases, they may not produce the look you want. If the paper you’re drawing on is very smooth or is heavily sized, it’s also possible to remove color completely, no matter how carefully you blend. So test first!