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 […]
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 […]
Bluff, Jasper & Cedar: Grays to Quicken the Imagination Nuanced in color and tone, Bluff and Jasper evoke an unreachable and unknowable sense of space or existence. In a mixture, each of these chromatic grays, at opposite ends of the value scale, invites one’s imagination to see the presence of […]
Bruegel: The Hand of the Master Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s unique and innovative use of his materials is an essential focus of Bruegel: The Hand of the Master, the first-ever major exhibition dedicated to the greatest Netherlandish painter of the Sixteenth Century. On view at the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Austria, […]
When deciding upon a black for your palette, think first how you want it to function … a color on its own? … a subtle dark to deepen a mixture? … great for mixing grays? Knowing the differences between black pigments such as Ivory Black, Mars Black or Lamp Black […]
Our highly pigmented Cadmium Yellows are buttery smooth, brilliant, and strong. Long and ready for your brush We mill our paint with the highest pigment load possible. Soft metallic pigments, such as the cadmiums, turn out buttery and long in consistency at this high pigment level. The addition […]
