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Although dedicated to Oil painting with Zest-it, the products are not sold from the site.
The site is for information only, on the products; how to use them, what to use them with
and oil painting in general, with a list of Stockist and Retailers

 

About Oils,   
How Oil Paint is made,
 About Colour,
and the  
Colour Wheel. 

Colour Mixing

Colour Mixing Extra

Tonal Values

Brush types and how they are made.
How Painting knives are made.

Cleaning your brushes

Why use a palette?

Which type of easel to choose?

The fat over lean principal.

Tuition, hints, tips and
a project to try.

Blending Oil Pastels

Parchment work and New Blending CP on Parchment

About the history of  Tole and Tole painting

One-stroke brushes.

Tole Gallery

Gallery of Flowers

Flower Gallery   Flower project

Wet-on-wet Flower painting

Techniques
of painting oils, traditional and wet on wet.

Using Painting Medium

Tole Brush Strokes

 
The what, why and how of Zest-it.

Zest-it Trade site

Stockist and on line retailers

With Coloured Pencils and other media

New - About the Zest-it Cold-Pressed Linseed Oil
How to use the Zest-it Clear Painting Medium

How to use the Zest-it Damar Varnish and

the Damar Picture Varnish

The Zest-it product range

Use Zest-it for brush cleaning.

 Pencil and Parchment Blend with 'dropper' top

Product for Parchment Craft

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Easy to understand MSDS

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