The Quest of Purchasing Oil Paints

popular and commonly stocked brands, including a pricing guide. (Imagine the powerful confidence you will impart when you are able to tell the clerk “Yes, show me the Winsor & Newton Winton Oils, please.”)

Winsor & Newton Artist’s Oil Colors $$$$$ (professional)
World renowned, Winsor & Newton is my favorite brand of professional oil paint. They contain the highest level of pigmentation consistent with good handling properties, unsurpassed covering power and permanence.

Old Holland Classic Oil Colors $$$$$ (professional)
Comparable to Winsor & Newton Artist’s Oil Colours in price and quality, Old Holland prides itself on intensity of the colors and great covering power. They contain no fillers or waxes and only lightfast pigments are used.

Holbein Artist’s Oils $$$$ (professional)
Pure pigments at a lower price, Holbein boasts consistent viscosity, color, tone, application, and adhesion.

Schmincke Mussini Oils $$$ (professional)
Schmincke Mussini Oils contain natural resins for a balanced drying process with reduced aging and long-term cracking. Good for painting in layers and for glazing techniques.

Rembrandt Extra Fine Oils $$ (student)
Rembrandt oils are well known for their economical color strength and excellent lightfastness.

Gamblin $$ (student)
Gamlin Artists Colors Company is dedicated to making artist’s colors at reasonable prices. They contain lightfast pigments blended with linseed oil and create colors with luscious working properties.

Winsor & Newton Winton Oils $ (student)
Winton Oils combine fine raw materials and modern techniques to suit any painting style at an economical price.

Color Selection
When you finally find yourself in front of the brand and type of oil paint you have been seeking, all you have to do now is choose some colors. Your sales help may not be with you at this point, but color selection is mostly subjective so don’t be intimidated. Go with your gut instincts based upon the subject or genre you will be painting. There will most likely be color keys available in the store to choose from, or you can ask your now humbled store clerk to help you choose. You may want to start out with basic colors first, and experiment later. As such, here below are some tips on buying colors appropriate for certain palettes:

High Key Basic Palette
Impressionist’s Palette
Transparent Glaze Colors
Landscape Palette
Special Landscape Colors
Old Master Palette

Get to Know Your Colors
Now that you have your preliminary colors, use them and get to know them. Eventually, you’ll learn to add colors that will compliment your painting style. As I said earlier, color selection is

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