Description
Williamsburg Handmade Oil Landscape Colors Set
The Williamsburg Handmade Oil Landscape Colors Set is an excellent outdoor color palette that allows artists to produce the wide variety of hues, shades and tints encountered in nature. It contains 11 ml tubes of Permanent Yellow Light, Cadmium Red Light, Quinacridone Magenta, Ultramarine Blue, Sevres Blue, Sap Green, Italian Lemon Ochre and Burnt Sienna, plus a 37 ml tube of Williamsburg Titanium White. This value priced set includes a great selection of colors that are representative of the Williamsburg paint-making philosophy.
Made in small batches, Williamsburg Handmade Oil Colors are recognized for being richly pigmented and dense. Each color is treated individually, with each pigment ground to the nature of that specific color, bringing out the beauty and preserving the wider range of differences that were common in the past. The line of colors is guided by tradition with a recognition for modern organic pigments.
Colors:
- 11 ml tubes: Permanent yellow light, Cadmium red light, Quinacridone magenta, Ultramarine blue, Sevres blue, Sap green, Italian lemon ochre and Burnt sienna.
- 37 ml tube: Titanium White
Williamsburg Handmade Oils are known for their high quality, as well as their extensive palette of colors, including genuine Italian Earth Colors. Since joining the Golden Artist Colors family, the color palette has expanded to include French Earth Colors and a range of colors made from Safflower Oil.
Originating from the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, Williamsburg now makes over 170 artist quality oil colors, as well as oil mediums and grounds in New Berlin, New York.
The Williamsburg Philosophy
Getting the proper pigment is just the beginning. So much of the quality of an oil paint is in the grinding of the pigment. Williamsburg grinds each pigment to enhance the beauty and luminosity specific to that particular pigment. Some colors will feel slightly gritty, while others are extremely smooth. For example, Williamsburg Cerulean Blue has a beautiful, velvety, light absorbing surface with an extremely strong covering power. Conversely, Sienna colors are often gritty in order to allow light to travel through the vehicle. This exposes rich golden or mahogany undertones rather than just dull, heavy browns.
Artist grade pigments are ground in pure, premium, alkali-refined linseed oil. These paints are made in small batches no larger than eight gallons at a time. This allows for total control over the product, much like the late nineteenth century French color makers. All the materials are hand measured, and every ounce of paint is scrutinized for quality.
Williamsburg offers technical advice to museums, and conservators, as well as artists all over the world. They welcome your questions and comments.
Williamsburg Handmade Oil Product Support.
Williamsburg Handmade Oil Color Introductory Set, 8-Colors, Landscape
