Oil Painting

Blick is proud to offer its line of professional, artist-grade oil colors. Every color is formulated using the finest hand-ground pigments. Qualities of these extremely responsive oil paints include a high pigment load, a buttery feel, and a satin finish.

Five generations of chemists in the Blockx family have been working since 1865 to perfect the Blockx Oil Colors. Today they are still ground on stone rollers and mixed with poppyseed or linseed oil, and no additives or fillers whatsoever.

Da Vinci searches out the finest raw materials from around the world to formulate oils with the highest permanent pigment concentration. These paints perform with a rich consistency for smooth and easy brushing. All colors rated at Lightfastness I or II.

Robert Gamblin has sought out the finest grades of pigment available. Base is alkali refined linseed oil used as a binder for exceptional durability. Retains tinting strength, undertone, and texture. Base also makes a strong, flexible paint film.

Professional colors contain finest pure pigments, milled in alkali-refined linseed oil. High chroma, superior tint strength, excellent adhesion, light-fastness, and archival permanence.

The formulation of each color is modified individually to compensate for the inherent differences in the working characteristics of pigments. The result is an even consistency across the entire palette of colors.

Includes colors most frequently needed by portrait artist to create a full range of skin tones and hair colors. Neutrals are included to reduce color intensity and produce cool skin tones. Ten colors.

The skill of the Old Masters meets modern research in this premium line of oils. Lefranc's Artist Oils use a distinctive Mediterranean palette and exclusive colors. Each color strikes the perfect balance between opacity and transparency.

Graham creates fine artist oils in small batches, using his knowledge to bring out the finest color from each pigment! Each color is rich and saturated, with the highest possible mass tone and tinting strength. Most colors are based on a single pigment.

Transform your studio with this range of oils. Recognized for more than 75 years as a manufacturer of fine oil color, Maimeri oils are formulated to give the artist the highest degree of lightfastness, purity and quality, ensuring a clean, pure tone.

This is a professional line of oil paint formulated to the highest standards. Using techniques dating back to the days of the Old Masters, Michael Harding creates powerful, intense colors of paint that are both beautiful and durable.

Founded in 1933, Jaurena Art is one the oldest European companies to deal exclusively with fine art products. Their luscious pigments have been used by famous painters such as Dalí and Miró, and are recommended for their extra-fine quality.

Old Holland has been making artist colors since 1664, as one of the oldest continuously operating companies in the art supply industry. The company is known for uncompromising adherance to its techniques and standards. All color making is done by hand

Milled with the utmost care, Fragonard professional oils specifically utilize mono-pigments, a single pigment per color, wherever possible. This allows the artist the widest range of color mixing potential, retaining hue purity and intensity.

Produces a noticeable brilliance and color intensity. Highly durable. Finely ground pigments give highest color strength, resulting in extra smooth, creamy, uniform texture and buttery brush feel. Tubes and sets.

Mussini offers brilliance and purity with the highest lightfastness. Mussini provides an extensive range of transparent and semi-transparent glaze pigments. Schmincke Mussini Oil Colors are available in 1.2 oz (35 ml) tubes.

Schmincke Norma is a top-quality artists’ oil color for demanding professionals. The Norma Oil Colors are made with the same care as the Mussini Oil Colors, but is considered a modern color palette.

Sennelier creates their extraordinarily luscious colors from the finest hand-ground pigments combined with pure, first-press, non-yellowing, safflower oils. They produce an outstanding collection of oils distinguished by a "satin" finish and buttery feel.

Each pure pigment is ground to its correct degree of fineness and formulated individually under exacting controls. Permanent and free from darkening, yellowing, fading, and cracking. Also Basic Set.

These professional oil colors are formulated from refined linseed oil, safflower oils, and highly concentrated, lightfast pigments. Tubes issue creamy, smooth, consistent color.

Williamsburg founder and painter Carl Plansky searches the world over for the most beautiful raw materials to ensure that his colors exude the beauty and luminosity specific to the particular pigment.

Unmatched for purity, quality, and permanence, these oils use only the finest pigments. Each color contains the maximum pigment consistent with good handling qualities to achieve optimum tinting strength when reduced with white. Sets also available.

Talens of the Netherlands, maker of Rembrandt Oil Colors, offers the Amsterdam line of quality oils for those who use a lot of paint or are looking for a good oil color for educational purposes. Available in 28 popular colors, extra large tubes.

Painstakingly manufactured from the finest materials, Art Store Oils offer the artist an extraordinary oil paint with extremely heavy pigmentation, buttery texture, and consistent performance. These stand up to the best student brands in the business.

This high quality line of color is produced at a uniform and economical price. Daler-Rowney Georgian Oil Colors are ideal for use with a knife or a brush, for a variety of effects. Every batch is matched for color and texture against exacting standards.

Gamblin student-grade oils are perfect for those who desire colors with good working properties at a reasonable cost. Made from half the colored pigments of artist grade oil colors, they’re extended with high quality colorless pigments.

Full range of traditional oil colors with good quality and good prices. All colors have excellent tinting strength, and the whites are absolutely non-yellowing. Tubes and sets.

Classico oils spread like butter right from the tube and dry to a rich satin glow. The colors are lightfast and highly concentrated, thin well, and mix perfectly. Classico pigments are micro ground with linseed oil for great transparency when glazing.

Pebeo's XL Studio Oil Color has been developed to fulfill the needs of contemporary expression. The colors mix easily and quickly, and a fast drying time allows artists to add new coats after only three hours, perfect for glazes and impastos.

Reeves Introduction to Art Oil Sets provide good quality non-toxic colors at an economical price, and offer a great starting point for any new oil painter.

The makers of Sennelier Extra Fine Artist Oils created student oil colors as an economical medium for teaching the techniques of the masters. These vibrant and intense colors resist yellowing, feature excellent lightfastness and have a buttery texture.

Van Gogh Oil Colors have been developed for artists who are searching for quality and exceptional value. These paints are particularly easy to mix and work with because all colors in the range have virtually the same degree of gloss and viscosity.

Modern hue pigments produce colors extremely close to the more expensive natural pigments, and have excellent permanence ratings. Intermixable with other oils. Available in several size tubes and sets.

The Yarka Students Oil Color Set includes twelve 7.5 ml (¼ oz) tubes suitable for amateur or scholastic use.

Learn the secrets of composition and technique that seasoned artists use to create beautiful landscapes. These guidebooks, from the Walter Foster "How to Draw and Paint" series, have motivated thousands of aspiring artists.

Learn big techniques on a small scale. Joyce Washor offers all the guidance needed to succeed at creating small paintings. Learn how to scale down subjects to fit on small canvases, and how to frame and market finished paintings.

Techniques for painting trees, skies and water. Compiled from three best selling volumes. Has 135 step-by-step lessons and reference photos. Also 60 demos, 600 color graphics. Authors are S. Allyn Schaeffer and John Shaw.

This book is a valuable, practical color resource guide for any oil or acrylic artist. Follow four simple steps to mix more than 450 color combinations.

This book is a valuable, practical color resource guide for any oil or acrylic artist. It contains recipes for more than 500 color combinations, including master mixes for many skin, hair, eye, and lip variations. A plastic color mixing grid is included.

Learn the basics with this overview of oil painting — tools and materials, colors, techniques, light and shadow effects, landscape painting, figure and portrait painting, still-life, and much more. Editor — Marian E. Appellof. Paperback. 256 pages.

Learn oil painting techniques from these modern experts. Discover how they use light and dark values, and strong and weak colors, to create variety and interest.

Go on location with respected oil painter, Kevin D. Macpherson, and learn to translate field notes into fully realized studio paintings. Kevin offers insightful commentary on poetic landscapes that capture the spirit of being there.