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View demonstrations of Winsor & Newton products. From mediums to water colour large pans, let us show you how they are used by experts.

Using Liquin Mediums with oil colour

This video demonstrates how to use the Winsor & Newton Liquin family of mediums. It compares them to traditional oil painting mediums and explains their individual properties. It also includes a step-by-step guide for how each medium affects the opacity, transparency, consistency and flow of oil colour.

Drying Oils

An explanation and demonstration of the seven different Winsor & Newton drying oils. Cold Pressed Linseed Oil, Thickened Linseed Oil, Drying Linseed Oil, Refined Linseed Oil, Linseed Stand Oil and Safflower Oil and Drying Poppy Oil.

Oilbar Technical Video

Artists’ Oilbar is a high quality oil colour in a stick form, enabling artists to paint and draw freely, directly on to a surface. Watch our video to discover the endless possibilities offered by this unique & versatile form of Oil colour.

Reintroducing Artists' Oilbar

Reintroducing Winsor & Newton Artists’ Oilbar. An artists' quality oil colour in stick form, Oilbar combines the richness of oil colour with the freedom of pastels and can be used to draw and paint anywhere, anytime, directly on to a surface. Watch our video to rediscover its unique versatility.

Artists' Acrylic Varnishes

Details on the three new Artists' Acrylic Varnishes (Gloss, Satin & Matt) and the Varnish Remover and an overview of their properties. Click here to show us what you can do with Acrylics & Acrylics mediums for your chance to win Art Materials & an Artists break to Italy.

Artists' Acrylic Modelling Paste

Details on the new Artists' Acrylic Modelling Paste and a demonstration of its properties.

Artists' Acrylic Flow & Drying Control

Details on the two new Artists' Acrylic Additives, Flow Improver & Slow Drying Medium and a demonstration of their properties.

Priming with Artists' Acrylic Gesso

Details on the two new Artists' Acrylic Gessoes (Clear & White) and a demonstration of their properties.

No Loss of Colour Depth: Artists' Acrylic Matt Mediums

A demonstration of the two new Artists' Acrylic Matt Mediums illustrating how their use with Artists' Acrylic ensures no loss of colour depth.

Maintains No Colour Shift: Artists' Acrylic Gloss Mediums

A demonstration of the three new Artists' Acrylic Gloss Mediums illustrating how their use with Artists' Acrylic ensures no colour shift.

Introduction To Artists' Acrylic Mediums Range

An introduction to the new Artists' Acrylic Mediums range giving an overview of the full range and it's development.

How to use granulation and water colour mediums

How Granulation Medium and Water Colour Medium work and how to use them.

How to use permanent masking medium

How Permanent Masking Medium works and how to use it.

How to use art masking fluid

How Art Masking Fluid and Colourless Art Masking Fluid work and how to use them.

Artisan Thinner vs Water

What Artisan Thinner is and why it is better to use than water.

The Artisan Range

An introduction to the Artisan range, with an explanation of how it formulated and what the benefits are.

Artists’Acrylics: Unrivalled Colour Brilliance

Our new Artists’ Acrylic colours are unrivalled in their brilliance and depth of colour bringing exceptional richness and intensity to your paintings.

Artists’ Acrylics: No Colour Shift

Artists' Acrylic colours remain as brilliant and intense when dry as they do when wet meaning virtually NO colour shift or darkening in tone between palette and canvas.

Artists’ Acrylics: Longer Working Time

Artists' Acrylic colours have been formulated to have a longer working time on the palette without compromising the convenient drying time of acrylics. The working time is 20% more than our previous range of Finity Artists' Acrylics and in tests with artists, we've found that this is just the right amount of time for working with all acrylic painting techniques.

Bristol Easel

How to assemble a Winsor & Newton Bristol Easel with step by step instructions.

Cotman Water Colour PLUS Sets

This video demonstrates the unique features that the Cotman Water Colour PLUS Sets have to offer. The Cotman PLUS sets are a unique range of innovative and modern water colour sets for all water colour artists. Practical, versatile and great for field or studio work, there are 6 types of sets available and each has its own unique features. This video demonstrates the Cotman Pocket PLUS, Painting PLUS and Field PLUS sets.

Artists’ Water Colour Large Pans

This video demonstrates how to use the new Winsor & Newton Artist’s Water Colour Large Pans. It explains the differences between pan and tube colour by demonstrating techniques for use and highlighting the formulation differences. In particular it shows how this product’s revolutionary design is perfect for creating large washes of colour and large watercolour paintings.

Using Liquin Mediums with oil colour

This video demonstrates how to use the Winsor & Newton Liquin family of mediums. It compares them to traditional oil painting mediums and explains their individual properties. It also includes a step-by-step guide for how each medium affects the opacity, transparency, consistency and flow of oil colour.

Materials

Dermot Cavanagh gives you advice on choosing the materials needed to paint successful water colours.

This video is one of many that are available for viewing on ‘Awash on the Web' - an exciting new, on-line, interactive learn-to-paint website, created by broadcaster and artist, Dermot Cavanagh. To find out lots more about Awash on the Web, visit www.awashontheweb.com.