van Gogh Fossil Paint: It's a velvety smooth chalk and water based product that is easily manipulated to create depth and texture.

Glorious colours of fossil paint in a palette specially designed to allow the creative user to mix and match two or more colours with ease. Find out what goes into our paint and what makes it the best at covering furniture and giving it new life!

All paint consists of three parts.

The Vehicle: As it’s called… that means the stuff that makes up most of the paint – in our case – it’s water! Most paints today use water as the vehicle because it doesn’t have any nasty toxins like paint made with oil or chemical solvents. 

The Pigment:  That’s the stuff that gives almost everything a colour. Pigment comes in a dry powdered form. It is mined from the earth in the form of clay or mineral or even plants. We use dry powdered pigments that we get from France, Italy and Germany for our handmade Beeswax Finish, and we use liquid pigments to create gorgeous heavily pigmented colours for our paint.

The Binder:  Without the binder, all you have is beautiful coloured water!  Once the water evaporates, you would be left with dry powder on your furniture that would just wipe off. So, binder is the stuff that makes it all stick together, and stick onto the furniture. We use chalk as the binder in our paint. We also use a little bit of adhesive to make sure that the paint will adhere to most surfaces. The chalk is what makes our paint look velvety, matte and smooth. It’s a beautiful finish that is hard to duplicate any other way. But this is not new. Fossil paint has been around for hundreds/thousands of years. Remember Cave art?; Fossil paint! Frescos in the Sistine Chapel?; Fossil Paint!; These refer to some version of fossil paint. So what we have here is a revival of an ancient art form! With all of the modern convenience of being able to run down to Rustic Restyle Ltd and buy a quart or two ready- made!  

Please remember that your Fossil paint needs sealing with one of our finishing products - wax, TTF, Liquid Metals etc.

PLEASE NOTE:   There may be a difference between the colours pictured on screen and how it dries when applied. If your concerned we advise you request a colour sample from us.  Always remembering that you can manipulate these colours with your choice of finishing product (clear, tinted, wash etc).

Full instruction sheets available by request, please just message us via the contact page.