DUO is a water-soluble oil color, therefore controlling the thickness of the paints with water is possible. Without using volatile agents painting and cleaning with water creates a comfortable and safe studio. DUO creates methods, which aren't possible with conventional oil paints, possible, such as hatching with narrow and strong lines and using flow or bleeding, which water properties can give. Extending the possibilities of what oil painting can do.
【Characteristics】
1. An oil color that can be diluted with water.
Duo can be diluted with water instead of volatile agents like turpentine. Used brushes can be washed with water. At an atelier or a classroom with little ventilation, you can paint oil paintings in a clean environment. It is recommended for people who are sensitive to the smell of solvents.
2. Various expressions are possible.
Diluted Duo is a kind of mixed tempera. It has properties which both oil and water colors possess. Using unique water properties, such as bleeding and surface tension peculiar for painting thin paint evenly, as well as hatching for drawing sharp and strong long lines, which never were possible using oil color. It is basically oil paint, therefore it becomes solid and dissolves in neither water nor oil after drying.
3.It can be mixed with conventional oil colors
It can be mixed with conventional oil colors. However, please note if adding over 30% of conventional oil color or painting oil, DUO is no longer dissolvable with water.
4. Renewed as more professional specifications
By overall review of the colors and prescription, Duo was renewed largely in June, 2008. The new pigments were introduced to all 100 colors, including new mineral-based colors, such as cadmium and cobalt. Duo is recommended as genuine paint to artists who use many colors.
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