Dorlands Wax Medium – Jacquard

Jacquard Dorland’s Wax Medium is a trusted classic that artists have relied on for decades to create beautifully luminous and durable finishes. This premium-quality wax medium is a unique blend of pure wax and resin, designed to protect, seal, and enhance artworks across a variety of media.

Whether you’re working with oil paint, cold wax, watercolour, pastel, or even collage, Dorland’s Wax Medium adds a soft sheen, strengthens the paint film, and increases transparency while maintaining rich depth of colour. It can be mixed directly with pigments or paints, or applied as a final protective coating that buffs to a satin or high-gloss finish once dry.

Ideal for sealing paper, canvas, wood, or other porous surfaces, this versatile medium also offers moisture resistance and UV protection, keeping your work looking its best for years to come. A little goes a long way, making it a studio essential for artists who appreciate both performance and longevity.

Product features:

  • Blend of pure wax and resin.
  • Works as a sealant, varnish, and painting medium.
  • Enhances transparency and depth of colour.
  • Creates a durable, water-resistant finish.
  • Suitable for oil, pastel, watercolour, and mixed media.
  • Use on paper, canvas, wood, metal, ceramics, or photos.
  • Buffs to a satin or glossy sheen.
  • Can be tinted with colourants.
  • Non-yellowing, durable, and long-lasting.
  • Available options:
    – 1 fl oz / 29.57 ml
    – 4 fl oz / 118.29 ml
    – 16 fl oz / 473.17ml

 

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Description

Dorland’s Wax is a versatile cold wax medium made from a special blend of pure waxes and damar resin.

Used as a protective topcoat for sealing and finishing a variety of media from oil paintings to collage, Dorland’s Wax is especially popular as a varnish for watercolour and gouache paintings. It provides a durable waterproof finish, protecting the artwork from moisture, smudging, dust, and fingerprints, while adding depth to colour and allowing for glassless framing and display. Applied with a fine cloth or gloved hand, it is easy to use, and the finish is malleable: leave it matte, or buff with a rag after drying for a uniform satin gloss.

Mix Dorland’s Wax with oil paints or powdered pigments such as Pearl Ex to create heavy-bodied, super matte, and fast-drying colours for “cold wax painting,” unique textures, impasto effects, and for layering and palette knife techniques. By varying the ratio of medium to colorant, you can easily control the transparency or opacity of the colour. Add mineral spirits or solvent to thin the viscosity or adjust the dry time.

Dorland’s Wax also provides a beautiful finish on wooden objects, such as jewellery or furniture, as well as on metal, polymer clay, ceramics, drawings, photographs and more. Add a small amount of pigment, dye, oil colour, or alcohol ink to tint the medium, or apply it straight for a classy, wax finished look.

Dorland’s Wax is a sealant, varnish, and medium, all in one. It won’t yellow over time, and will protect artwork for the ages.

Topcoat finish for:
Watercolours, gouache, oils, stamps, cyanotype, acrylic, wood, polymer clay, pencil drawing, pen and ink, pour art, canvas, encaustics, ceramics, mixed media, collage, art paper & more.

Mixable with:
Oil colours, dry pigments, Pearl Ex Pigments, dye powders, charcoal, graphite, mineral spirits, turpentine, solvents & more.

Additional information

Options

1 fl oz / 29.57 ml, 4 fl oz / 118.29 ml, 16 fl oz / 473.17ml

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