Turner Bistre Oil

This amazing product Turner Bistre Oil is the creation of Marc A Turner and Turner Artist Colours and is available on the open market as the only Bistre Oil Paint.

Turner Paints in Bistre Oil

Using Turner Bistre

The photo above shows Marc A Turner using the Turner Bistre Oil to recreate a master copy after Sir Luke Fildes Sweet Quiet Rest in the Warrington Museum in April 2017

What is Bistre

Bistre has been used since the first century AD but became very popular in the 16th and 17th century, it is manufactured from the soot of Birch and or Beech wood after going through a thorough process of eliminating any contaminants and foreign matter  it is finally ground and mixed with the finest refined linseed oil.

Where can it be used

Traditionaly it was used in a ink for to create paintings that have value to them, and like a painting made in Black known as a Grisaille, the Brown painting is known as a Brunaille.