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ARTISTS Oil Colors #14 Studio Size Save 30%
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Oil Colours have been used in various forms since the 15th Century. The popularity of oil colour can be attributed to its extraordinary versatility, offering the artist excellent results from the traditional techniques of blending and glazing, impasto and scumbling. Winsor & Newton began making oil colours in 1832, swiftly developing and subsequently maintaining a reputation for excellence and consistency. Today, the Artists' Oil Colour range of 114 colours offers the widest colour spectrum, the highest level of pigmentation consistent with good handling properties, unsurpassed covering power and improvements in permanence to the extent that 111 out of 114 colours are classed as permanent for artists' use.
The colours of the range are selected according to masstone (colour from tube), undertone (bias of colour when in a thin film), strength and relative opacity. The resultant colour spectrum ensures that Artists' Oil Colours offer all artists a palette which suits their work. All colours within the range are intermixable and also with other Winsor & Newton oil ranges, with the exception of (a)Thin alkyd films over thick oil and (b)Thick Oilbar films under oil films. A wide range of mediums are also available, allowing you to alter the characteristics of your tube colour e.g. consistency, gloss, drying rate and texture.
Primed canvas and canvas boards are the popular supports for oil colour, offering long term stability and enabling the exploitation of a variety of techniques. Paper may also be used when correctly sized and primed. Hog brushes are most commonly used with oil colour, however when blending and
glazing techniques are used, a soft hair brush is recommended. Brushes and equipment should be cleaned with solvent after use.
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