Gums, Waxes & Resins

Gum Mastic is a tree resin, which dissolves into a clear varnish with alcohol or turpentine, but not with mineral spirits. Mastic varnishes are more prone to blooming and darkening with age than damar-based varnishes, and painting mediums that contain...

For use in varnishes and polish. Translucent.

Pumice flour serves as an aggregate for the plaster and mortar industry and for polishing. Volcanic rock, 0 - 40 µ, from Germany, Eiffel.

Atlantis - Paraffin Wax Available in 250g, 500g and 1Kg White, odourless. Commonly used in candle making plus other uses. Melting point 57-60 degrees centigrade.

Atlanttis - Microcrystalline Wax Available in 500g, 1Kg & 5Kg A petroleum derivative wax, this is used as an additive to oils as well as for making adhesive mixtures for conservation. This is our most popular wax with artists. Congealing point 69-...

Atlantis - Beeswax Pellets (Natural) Available in 250g, 500g and 1Kg This is the totally natural wax that remains after the honey is extracted. It is yellow in colour. Congealing point 61-65 degrees centigrade. This product is temporarily out of stock...

Atlantis - Beeswax Pellets (bleached) Available in 250g, 500g & 1Kg  This is the natural honeycomb beeswax formed into thin sheets and bleached by sunlight making it white. This also raises the melting point of the wax. Due to it being...

Available in 100g and 1Kg. For use in varnishes and polish.

Available in 100g and 1kg. For use in varnishes and polish.  

Available in 100g and 1kg. For use in varnishes and polish.

Available in 100g. Mastic Varnish is very simple to make and comes in its raw form as rounded granules. Popular in the 19th century mastic can be dissolved in alcohol or gum turpentine. It is less in use than dammar as it has the tendency to brown,...

Available in 100g Used to make Copal Varnish and Copal Painting Medium. Generally mixed with linseed oil and driers. The varnish films are glossy.

Kremer - Gum Sandarac (Morocco) Available in 100g and 1kg A hard resin collected from the Alerce tree in North Africa. It comes in rounded granules and is dissolved in alcohol and other solvents to form a hard, brittle varnish. OUT OF STOCK

Atlantis - Damar Resin Crystals Available in 250g, 500g & 1Kg. Damar varnish is very simple and much more economical to make. The resin is tapped from the damar fir tree in Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. It comes in lump form and dissolves in...

Atlantis - Gum Arabic Crystals Available in 100g and 250g When dissolved in hot water it is used as an adhesive (gum mucilage), as a slop out in litho printing, as a size and more often as a binder in opaque and transparent watercolours and pastels...

Atlantis - Whiting Available in 1Kg The most common form of chalk, Also used for making gesso. OUT OF STOCK

Available in 1Kg Italian, 0 - 32 µ, calcium carbonate Recommended as filler or for gesso OUT OF STOCK