{"id":1524976,"date":"2024-03-18T00:09:07","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T00:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jacksonsart.com\/blog\/?p=1524976"},"modified":"2026-09-25T16:23:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T15:23:01","slug":"michael-harding-explains-his-new-miracle-medium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jacksonsart.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/18\/michael-harding-explains-his-new-miracle-medium\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Harding Explains His New Miracle Medium"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Harding developed Miracle Medium<\/a> as a vegetable-based alternative to traditional oil painting solvents like turpentine and white spirit and can be used both as an oil paint diluent and as a brush cleaner. In this article and accompanying film, Michael Harding introduces Miracle Medium, describes how it differs from traditional solvents, and explains how artists can benefit from a solvent-free painting practice. <\/p>\n

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Michael Harding Miracle Medium<\/a> available in 100 ml, 250 ml, and 1000 ml.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Editor\u2019s note:<\/strong> Miracle Medium is described by Michael Harding as 100% vegetable-based. Environmental and biodegradability claims depend on the conditions and testing applicable to the material; we recommend referring to the manufacturer\u2019s current technical information for these details.<\/small><\/p>\n

Evie: Could you start by describing the difference between Miracle Medium and traditional solvents?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Michael: Not surprisingly, for artists there\u2019s been a huge need for something that could work for them in the studio, or out in the field, in terms of a diluent – something that thins paint, but at the same time doesn\u2019t have all the negatives of odours, headaches, is environmentally friendly, and non-toxic. We\u2019ve been getting by on turpentine for generations, and other solvents have come along in the last few decades. <\/p>\n

My main concern with solvents, particularly white spirit based solvents, is that I noticed that those cause the paint to be more crumbly and brittle. For example when you want to clean out a plastic painting bucket, and you put a dash of white spirit in it, and wipe it around, it\u2019s going to leave marks. However, if you let it dry overnight you can easily wipe it off with a rag. I mentioned this to a painter friend of mine and he said \u201cbasically when you see linseed oil under a microscope, you can see the particles are made up of chains, and when you introduce solvent, it cuts the chains.\u201d And of course you would assume that once the spirit had evaporated off, those chains would reform, but they don\u2019t. Those chains are rendered permanently shorter, as if they\u2019re cut. That\u2019s where the tensile strength of linseed oil comes from. In a sense it\u2019s a glue, and anything that compromises the strength of that glue is compromising the life expectancy of your painting. <\/p>\n

Also, speaking to brush makers, they tell me that a lot of the solvents out there destroy the hairs of brushes by removing their natural oils. So there\u2019s been a need for something on the market that ticks all the boxes for artists. We joked about it for ages, saying if we can find something, it\u2019s going to be a miracle.<\/p>\n

To the best of our knowledge this is 100% vegetable based, therefore 100% biodegradable, and it has no volatile evaporating gasses, no child labour, and no harm to animals involved in its making. The great thing is, that when you put it into paint, it behaves just like those other solvents, increasing flow, completely colourless, it has the faintest smell, but is virtually odourless. It 100% evaporates off eventually, leaving the paint behind as it were. It doesn\u2019t change the speed of drying, nor does it affect lightfastness (although the more you dilute colour, the more vulnerable it is to light). You can fly with it (in the luggage hold of course since it’s a liquid), and you can clean your brushes with it. So it achieves everything we\u2019ve been looking for, and it really is a miracle. <\/p>\n

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Michael Harding Miracle Quick Dry Dammar Glaze<\/a> available in 100 ml, 250 ml, and 1000 ml.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Evie: So if it thins the paint without compromising the flexibility, would this be ideal for underpainting?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Michael: Yeah, anything really. The choice is yours! To be honest, we can\u2019t find anything negative about it. <\/p>\n

Evie: How long did it take you to develop the Miracle Medium? How long have you had the idea for?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Michael: I\u2019ve been searching for something like this for about 20 years. With the growth of the business, it was the first time I had the chance to sit down and think \u2018wouldn\u2019t it be fun to do this\u2019. We only got our hands on it about five years ago, and started playing around with it. <\/p>\n

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Michael Harding Miracle Oil Paint Medium<\/a> available in 100 ml, 250 ml, and 1000 ml.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Evie: I can see now why you\u2019ve called it Miracle Medium. It\u2019s not just a solvent alternative, but it does something different?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Michael: It is certainly a solvent alternative, but sometimes there is an assumption that if something is odourless, then it\u2019s good, but if you read the fine print, they have all the ventilated studio warnings as well. <\/p>\n

\u2018Medium\u2019 has a number of contexts as a word. For example, the medium of collage, the medium of clay etc. and then there is the medium of something you put in paint. In a sense you might argue that linseed oil is not a medium because it\u2019s a component of paint. A medium tends to be thought of as something that\u2019s an additive, a balsam, a turpentine that we add to paint to give it some of the virtue that we can\u2019t achieve with the paint neat. We looked at other terms we could use for it, but they were similar to names of existing products. It\u2019s the one for us that ticks every single box. One thing we did discover is that it dissolves styrofoam\/polystyrene. But how many artists would be using tools made out of polystyrene? <\/p>\n

Evie: You\u2019ve made versions of your existing mediums with the Miracle Medium. For people that already use those mediums, can they expect the same characteristics from them?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Michael: In the mediums that we had turpentine in, we literally swapped out the turpentine for the Miracle Medium. We found that it dissolves dammar crystals, so effectively it\u2019s the same thing but without the turpentine. It gave us the ability to produce glaze mediums and painting mediums without the hindrance of having to worry about the toxic smells. <\/p>\n

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Michael Harding Miracle Beeswax Paste<\/a> available in 100 ml, 250 ml, and 1000 ml.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Evie: So you can use Miracle Medium to clean your brushes, in the same way you can with a traditional solvent. Do you have any other tips for a solvent free oil painting practice? <\/strong><\/p>\n

Michael: I was about to ask you that! I like playing around with sun-thickened linseed, which was practiced by the Dutch a lot, and it\u2019s really fun. All you need to do is put the linseed oil in a baking tray, leave it on a window sill with a sheet of glass over the top (to keep the flies out), and transfer it to an empty bottle and shake it up each day to aerate it. After about 10 – 15 days it becomes more goopy. So just linseed oil aerated with sunlight, and it starts taking on different characteristics.<\/p>\n

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Michael Harding Miracle Resin Oil Wax<\/a> available in 100 ml, 250 ml, and 1000 ml.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Evie: Are there any other mediums or oil painting products that you\u2019d like to develop in the future? <\/strong><\/p>\n

Michael: Well we\u2019re adding a considerable number of new oil colours, about 40. I will probably add some new watercolour colours. Mediums for watercolours are a bit hit and miss in a way, so unless I know I can really bring something to the party, I won\u2019t do it. I\u2019d rather give something really unique to artists that they can\u2019t get anywhere else. That\u2019s the whole purpose really.<\/p>\n

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Further Reading<\/h2>\n

A Guide to Mediums for Water-Mixable Oil Paint<\/a><\/p>\n

Why is Oil Paint So Expensive?<\/a><\/p>\n

In Conversation With Michael Harding About His Professional Watercolours<\/a><\/p>\n

Acrylic Painting, Microplastics, and the Environment<\/a><\/p>\n

Shop Michael Harding Miracle Medium on jacksonsart.com<\/a> – Currently available to UK customers only<\/strong><\/p>\n

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