Using Schmincke Oil Bronze Powders and Bronze Medium you can create truly metallic oil colours
Paint liquid gold, silver and copper colours onto your oil painting!
Made with genuine metal pigments in the following colours: Rich Gold, Rich Pale Gold, Pale Gold, Copper, and Silver.
Schmincke Oil Bronzes are fine, dry powders and need to be mixed with the Bronze Medium to make an iridescent metal effect paint. Mix 3 parts Oil-Bronze powder and 2 parts Bronze Medium with a painting knife or your brush shortly before application. The metal is shinier if you mix the powder and medium right before use. If required you can thin with solvent.
The metal paint dries wipe- and water-resistant, just like regular oil paint. It adheres even better if you use more bronze medium. Colour layers remain soluble to solvents after drying, like regular oil paint. Paint directly on oil paintings or other pre-primed surfaces, such as wood, metal or gypsum. When used on absorbent surfaces, it is recommended to apply an additional first layer of solvent-thinned bronze medium.
Click on the underlined link to go to the current offers on the book Schmincke Oil Bronze Powders on the Jackson’s Art Supplies website.
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14 Comments
Can you paint them as an underpainting under oil? Will they
show through the oil or be obscured? Or is it better to use on
top of the oil painting only?
Hi Susan
You can use the oil bronzes as you would any oil paint. But if you paint over them you will obscure them to some degree, depending on the transparency of the colour you are using on top.
Will these materials in combination with the
Bronze Medium tarnish after several years?
Has this been tested by the manufacturer?
Hi Michael
Thank you for your question about Schmincke oil bronzes.
Tarnish of bronze is only possible if oxygen or water came in contact with the metal.
If you follow all recommendations of technical information below you get a good and stable film over the bronze to protect it from air and water.
– Shake well before use.
– Mix 3 parts Schmincke oil bronze and 2 parts bronze medium with a painting knife shortly before application. Do not mix in advance as the shine will be less.
– The product is ready to use but the mixture can be diluted with turpentine substitute if desired.
– Dries wipe and water-resistant. Colour layer remains soluble to turpentine and turpentine substitute after drying.
– When used on absorbent surfaces, it is recommended to apply an additional pre-treatment with bronze medium thinned with turpentine substitute to the surface to seal the surface.
– Can be varnished carefully when dried completely (oil paintings should dry at least 8 – 12 months before varnishing; pre-tests are required because the painting layer remains soluble in turpentine or turpentine substitute.)
– Only suitable for indoor objects and not suitable for objects in damp rooms. Not suitable for outdoor use.
– As always when using a new product, individual pre-tests are required.
Hi
Can you mix other oil paints to the
bronze.
Hi Malcolm
I’m afraid we haven’t tried this and after a search around online I can’t find any clues. However I suspect you can, but you’ll need to try it out. Please let us know if you do and whether it worked!
Many thanks
Lisa
Where do I buy these?
Hi Kim,
You can buy Schmincke Bronze Powders here : https://www.jacksonsart.com/colour/pigments-powders/bronze-powders/brand/schmincke.
Let me know if you need anymore help!
Hi,
It looks really interesting. Are small samples
available to play around with the effects? I’d
love to try the colours before purchasing a
bottle.
Hi Dora
I’m sorry but there are no samples of this product available.
Heollo,can the oil bronze powders and
medium be used over colored pencils on
paper and drafting film please? Thank you
very much,Your friend and mine,Judith
Hi Judith
I have read that oil paint doesn’t adhere as well to draughting film as it does to something with a primer.
Using oil-based paints on paper that has not been sealed from oil with a primer layer means it will soak up the oil like chip paper. This will leave oil halos around your painted areas and soaking that much oil away from the bronze (or any other pigment) will mean it is under-bound and may crumble off.
You can always try it and see. Or an alternative would be to use a bronze acrylic paint like Schmincke Acrylic Inks metallic colours or the creamy Golden Fluid iridescent colours. There is also a wide variety of metallic watercolours.
This looks exciting! Can’t wait to try it out.
I often paint in thin layers and glazes with
oil paints using ‘Liquin’ instead of linseed
oil.
Is Liquin compatible with these oil bronze
powders and medium? …either underneath
them or with a translucent glaze over
them?
Hi Kris
Yes, alkyd oil mediums like Liquin will be fine layered over or under the bronze paints.