Description
Introducing Aspen White From Art Treehouse
Aspen White is a translucent, luminous white with a slightly glowing undertone that creates vibrant tints and mixes. It has a beautiful consistency straight from the tube even without the addition of mediums or solvents. Aspen White contains the finest grade of titanium and the highest purity French process zinc oxide in a binder with water-washed walnut oil and water-washed sun-thickened walnut oil.
Art Treehouse Aspen White contains no waxes, resins, or Aluminum Stearates.Â
Why Treehouse Aspen White?
• Aspen White is more vibrant and translucent than other whites.
• Aspen White creates beautiful, clean glazes, scumbles, tints, and mixes.
• Aspen White stays open longer, which is ideal for wet-into-wet, alla prima plein air techniques.
• Aspen White reduces yellowing, crinkling, and wrinkling associated with other whites.
• Aspen White has excellent lightfastness.
• Aspen White has a superior feel on the brush.
• Aspen White is unique; no other white has the same characteristics.
Why Walnut Oil?
• Walnut Oil was the preferred medium of Italian High Renaissance and Baroque painters.
• Venetian Medium contains cold-pressed, sun-thickened Walnut Oil.
• Notable Northern Renaissance and Baroque painters such as Van Eyck, Durer, Vermeer, Rubens, and Van Dyke utilized walnut oil. Rembrandt employed thickened walnut oil to improve paint flow.
Why Water-Washed and Sun-Thickened Walnut Oil?
• Water-washing thickens, clarifies, and significantly reduces drying time.
• Sun-thickening reduces drying time, improves paint flow, and adds flexibility to the paint film.
