LukasArtist Painting Butter - Professional, Fast Drying Oil Paint Medium - Perfect for Impasto and Palette Knife Painting - 37 ml Tube

I used this stuff for years when it was Lukas #5 and it was amazing. I created test panels years ago to test various black oils, maroger, copals, and alkyds. The Lukas actually dried from the inside out, held the chroma of the paint like nothing else, and five years later I bent the panels 180 degrees and Lukas was still flexible. For impasto it blew Maroger (my homemade and two purchased brands) and all other alkyds out of the water. I no longer need impasto as I paint very differently nowadays. I use various quantities of spike oil and Groves black oil. But if I did it would def be Lukas.Only drawback? The smell of alkyds is horrible to me. Lukas isn't as bad as Liquin and some others, but it will never have that sweet pine scent of good turps or the lavender smell of spike oil.

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