| 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, Winsor & Newton offer Artisan Water Mixable Oil Colour, a genuine oil colour which can be thinned with water and cleaned with soap and water. This enables the artist to thin and clean up with water rather than hazardous solvents such as turpentine or white spirit (mineral spirit).Artisan is made from modified linseed oil and modified safflower oil. It has been specifically developed to appear and work just like conventional oil colour; the depth of colour, buttery consistency, lightfastness, opacity/transparency, performance and drying times of Artisan, allow artists' to use this range for all oil colour techniques. Set contains six 37 ml. tubes of Artisan oil colours including cadmium yellow pale hue, cadmium red hue, french ultramarine, phthalo green blue shade, yellow ochre, titanium white, a 75 ml. bottle of faast drying medium, one Winsor canvas board, an Artisan brush and a product information leaflet. |
