Tri-Art Oil Mediums

Safflower Oil Medium is used extensively for grinding pale pigments because of its very light colour that will alter minimally the colour of the resulting milled oil paint. It is considered, alongside poppy, to be the most desirable drying oil for making white, blue and other pale coloured oil paints. It is a semi-drying oil that doesn’t yellow over time. Safflower oil is less susceptible to wrinkling of the paint film, because it doesn’t skin over like linseed oil, and it gains less weight as it cures.