❤️ Artist, futurist, book reader.
❤️ Just here to share my original oil paintings (not currently selling any).
❤️ Only real paintings, nothing digital.
"Tiny New York landscape #2" I ❤️ NY
2.5 x 3.5 inch oil painting on paper
I painted this yesterday evening. I think I got close to the spring colors I was looking to capture.
How can I have such a great knowledge about art supplies, but not be a great artist?
Of course, I'm just kidding. The chemists/engineers at Winsor & Newton know even more than I do, but nobody expects them to be great artists.
Luxury European Brand Cobalt Blue oil paint: $69.42
Winton Phthalo Blue oil paint: $4.71
The Winton is objectively a great blue. Very strong tinting strength despite being "student-grade." The people buying the other tube of blue for more than 14 times the price are just suckers falling for the marketing hype of "genuine" cobalt from a company that existed since 1664 (which is total BS, there was no company in 1664 selling tubes of paint).
And when Golden/Williamsburg tested cobalt colors, they had some pretty sketchy lightfastness results, so you are not getting bulletproof lightfastness by spending so much more money. Phthalo blue is a very solidly lightfast and permanent color. That's why it's a high performance pigment used in paint for blue cars, because it won't fade in the sun!
(By the way, the Winton pthalo blue is the violet shade and not the more common green shade. It's a very nice shade of blue, great for skies and distant mountains.)
Luxury European Brand Cobalt Blue oil paint: $69.42
Winton Phthalo Blue oil paint: $4.71
The Winton is objectively a great blue. Very strong tinting strength despite being "student-grade." The people buying the other tube of blue for more than 14 times the price are just suckers falling for the marketing hype of "genuine" cobalt from a company that existed since 1664 (which is total BS, there was no company in 1664 selling tubes of paint).
And when Golden/Williamsburg tested cobalt colors, they had some pretty sketchy lightfastness results, so you are not getting bulletproof lightfastness by spending so much more money. Phthalo blue is a very solidly lightfast and permanent color. That's why it's a high performance pigment used in paint for blue cars, because it won't fade in the sun!
(By the way, the Winton pthalo blue is the violet shade and not the more common green shade. It's a very nice shade of blue, great for skies and distant mountains.)
As I've grown older, I've become more inclined to perceive a tomato to be a fruit rather than a vegetable.
Is it just me, or does that happen to everybody?
I used to think you needed "artist-grade" oil paints to be a real artist.
But I tried these Winton tubes out of curiosity... and they're just fine! For each of these colors, I can't tell the difference, or the difference doesn't matter.
Happy to answer any questions🙂
I compared many different brands of titanium white and couldn't tell the difference between student grade and artist grade.
And also, I couldn't tell the difference between the Winton Yellow Ochre and W&N artist-grade Yellow Ochre Pale.
I think the phthalo green ("Virdidian Hue") seems a little weaker in the Winton.
@JustinBaileyart You need to look at what pigments are listed on the tube. Earth colors are the least expensive pigments but they've lasted in cave paintings for 40,000 years!