Holbein Duo-Aqua Oil is an artist quality watermixable oil paint made with water-soluble linseed oil. It has all of the handling characteristics of traditional oil paints but cleans up with just water. These paints have a uniform drying time, which removes some of the unpredictability of painting with traditional oils.

If you wish to alter the consistency, drying time, and transparency of your Duo Aqua Watermixable Oils, you can use Holbein's Duo Aqua Mediums.

For the original Duo-Aqua range, Holbein avoided using heavy metal pigments. For painters who can't live without their Cadmiums and Cobalts, these colours are now available and are known as Duo-Aqua Elite Colours. They have the same working properties as the original Duo-Aqua colours.

Colours labeled Elite are: Cadmium Red, Cadmium Red Deep, Cadmium Orange, Cadmium Yellow Deep, Cadmium Yellow, Cadmium Yellow Lemon, Naples Yellow, Cobalt Green Light, Cobalt Green Deep, Cadmium Green, Cadmium Green Light, Cobalt Turquoise, Manganese Blue Nova, Cerulean Blue, Cobalt Blue, Verditer Blue and Cobalt Violet.