GERSTAECKER | Glass Mullers — individual

You use a glass runner to rub on your pigments if you want to make your own oil or casein paints. You can work on a rubbing plate made of (tempered) glass or marble.

With oil colours you rub your pigments with (linseed) oil, with casein paint with casein. Acrylic colours cannot be rubbed on: you would get too much foam.

With this glass runner you can choose between 2 sizes:

• small - Ø 5.7 cm / height: 4.7 cm / weight: 20 g
• large - Ø 8.5 cm / height: 8.5 cm / weight: 50 g

You can also use a runner to roughen a lithography stone with carborundum or fine silver sand. This is also called greining. And you can use it to rub and smooth printing ink before you ink your printing plate.

TIP! — By rubbing your pigments first with the appropriate thinner - white spirit or turpentine for oil colours and water for casein - you can dispense your pigments, if desired, before rubbing them into paint. Depending on the pigments you use, this sometimes works easier. You can also leave your pigments in the diluent in a sealed pot for a while - put to rot, painters used to call it.

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