Discussion with the master paintmakers of Vasari Classic Artists' Oil Colors
Inspired by the French Barbizon School of painters, the first to break with academic tradition and to paint en plein air in the early 19th century, American Tonalist painters emphasized feeling and mood in their landscape paintings. Specific time of day and season became the subject, chosen to evoke both […]
Titanium Yellows & Orange Our Nickel Lemon, Dutch Yellow, and Naples Orange demonstrate how useful modern Titanate colors can be on your palette. The Titanium White each contains imparts opacity and color strength and is why our Nickel Lemon and Dutch Yellow are commonly known as Titanium Yellows and our […]
King’s & Video Blue: The Essential Palette Are blue tints, such as our King’s and Video Blue, essential colors for your palette or only supplemental mixtures, merely for convenience? True, our King’s Blue, for instance, is Ultramarine tinted with white. But when it is purchased already mixed, the result is […]
Exploring Ancient Earths Our Ancient Earth Color Set is an opportunity for exploring ancient earths and to experience the characteristic nuance of traditional earth pigments. Mined from old world quarries, the authentic natural earth pigments we have imported from France, Italy and Cyprus are the inspiration for this set. Our […]
Welcome Phthalo Blues to your palette! Without question, Phthalo Blue is bright, strong and often overpowering in a mixture. Newer variations, such as our Phthalo Blue, green shade and our Phthalo Blue, red shade offer a greater range of mixing possibilities for today’s painter. Here’s a few reasons why any […]
Mars Colors: Bold and Bright Along with Cadmiums, Cobalts and Chromium, Mars Colors, from yellow to violet, were among the bright new inventions of 19th century color chemistry that subsequently sparked a color revolution in painting. Mars Colors were favored early on by the Pre-Raphaelite painters, such as the example […]
The Secret is the Paint The paint itself, not an obscure medium or oil, is the true secret of the Old Masters. Using coarsely ground natural earth colors, masters such as Rembrandt, employed the natural luminosity of these larger particle size pigments to create stunning illusions of brocaded fabrics or […]
We were delighted to help sponsor the Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters Association’s (MAPAPA) Annual Meeting this year, at the Chesapeake Fine Arts Studio, in Stevensville, MD on April 6th. It was an amazing day of activity and insightful presentations including painting demonstrations by Larry Moore (in oils) and by Stewart […]
Prussian Blue: First Blue Prussian Blue, the first blue synthetic pigment for artists, dates back to 1704. Its accidental discovery by a Berlin color maker, Diesbach, was a closely guarded secret for the next two decades until the formulation was published, in 1724. By this time an intern of Diesbach, […]
Bruegel: Seasons on View in Vienna Hunters in the Snow, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1565, oil on oak panel, 46 x 63⅘ inches, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Picture Gallery, depicts “Winter” in Bruegel’s Seasons series. This was a six-part series of the changing seasons originally comprised of 6 large scale […]
