Description
Handcrafted from the finest materials, this oil medium thins paint and decreases dry time!
The Clarified Lean Medium, by Chelsea Classical Studios, is a handmade oil medium that uses lavender spike oil essence, which is asafer alternative to ones made with turpentine for the oil painter. Also, it decreases drying time and thins the paint It is crafted from a mixture of pure, extra-pale, cold pressed linseed oil and lavender spike oil essence. For Chelsea Classical Mediums, even the ingredients of their mediums are handcrafted to ensure absolutely the highest quality products. The oil in the Clarified Lean Medium is cold-pressed, purified and de-yellowed by traditional, natural processes that strives to make the palest, cleanest pure linseed oil for artists’ to use. A “Lean” Medium refers to the “Fat Over Lean” technique, which means to apply a paint layer rich in oil (a fat) over a layer with less oil (a lean) layer on a painting. This simple principle is fundamental to controlling the paint adhesion, drying time and glossiness of oil colors.This fine-art quality medium has a light oil content mixed with a varnish, so it will thin the paint, make it dry faster, and is recommended for the early layers of painting.
What: Handcrafted blend of Chelsea’s Cold-Pressed Linseed Oil and Lavender Spike Oil Essence; for lean painting techniques.
Why: Designed for use with fat over lean oil techniques; helps increase paint film adhesion, improves paint drying time and gloss.
Where:Made in the USA from Old World Master Techniques
- Decreases drying time
- For use in earlier painting stages
Key Features:
- For the oil painter
- Handmade from the highest quality ingredients
- Safer alternative to Turpentine
- Non-yellowing and of archival quality
- Created through reproducing the methods of the Old Masters
- Thins paint consistency
- Decreases drying time
- Palest, cleanest pure linseed oil for artists’ to use
- Crafted from a mixture of pure, extra-pale, cold pressed linseed oil and lavender spike oil essence






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