Description

R&F Pigment Stick Opaque Color Set of 6

These oil stick sets feature R&F Pigment Sticks. These unique oil sticks will transform the way you paint. They have rich pigmentation and a lipstick soft consistency. This gives them the same fluidity, subtlety and durability of traditional oil colours. They have just enough natural wax added to maintain a solid stick form. Pigment Sticks let you get rid of the brush allowing you to work more directly on your surface. Their immediacy and mark making ability afford an endless range of options. Use R&F Blending Medium to extend these sticks.

OPAQUE COLOR SET:

A perfect introduction to the medium, this set includes six 38 ml R&F Pigment Sticks in opaque colors including Titanium Zinc White, Cadmium Yellow Medium, Cadmium Red Medium, Cobalt Blue, Chromium Green Oxide, and Ivory Black and a cradled 6½” × 7½” (16.5 cm × 19 cm) Ampersand Gessobord.

opaque oil sticks

Features:

Made in small batches
Carefully milled and molded using beeswax and natural plant wax, linseed oil and pigment
No additives, extenders, substitutes or facilitators
Versatile oil paints in stick form

Suggestions

Use it as an Oil Paint: One way to use R&F Pigment Sticks® is to treat them as if they were regular tube oils or use them in combination with tube oils. You can work on any surface just as you would with oils. Use brushes, solvents, and rags once the paint is on the surface. Some artists use them to start a painting with a quick sketch. Others do their painting with brushes and then put in final details with the sticks.
Use it as a Drawing Tool: Pigment Sticks® are becoming more prevalent as stand-alone painting and drawing tools. They are a wonderful bridge between drawing and painting and their very nature causes artists to loosen up, use more color, and be spontaneous and gestural.
Use it for Monotypes: Printmakers are falling in love with Pigment Sticks®. Anyone who has spent hours trying to mix colors with only nine or ten printmaking inks will find this palette of 91 colors very liberating. Because of their immediacy, and mark making ability, they afford an endless range of options.

Benefits to Working with Pigment Sticks

They can be thinned with turpentine or mineral spirits.
They can be worked with mediums by dipping them into stand oil, linseed oil, alkyd mediums, or oil medium gels.
You can mix them alongside tube oils or use them to draw over dried oil paintings.
Blending Sticks are colorless Pigment Sticks. They are essentially an oil stick without pigment. You can work them into an oil paint to increase its transparency, or blend two colors together on the painting.
You can manipulate Pigment Sticks with a paint knife until the paint is a buttery consistency, then it can be brushed or knifed onto the surface. You can use this method to mix colors on the palette or on a painting.