PR 101. Very Fast Drying. Semi-Opaque. Excellent Lightfastness. Average Oil content.

Formerly a natural Iron Oxide, this is now manufactured to greater standards of purity. A heavy red, which yields fruity fleshy hues, and makes tones of great sonority when mixed with the Yellow Lakes.

In 1985, following extensive research, Old Holland presented a revolutionary range of 168 oil paints, each with the highest degree of lightfastness. Traditional, non-lightfast pigments were replaced with modern lightfast pigments with the same colour characteristics as the traditional ones. Thanks to the highest possible concentration of pigment in each colour, the paint has an unprecedented colour strength. Within the unique range of 168 colours, there is a wide range of opaque and transparent colours, each with the highest possible brilliance (intense) and clarity (clean) characteristics. The only medium used for these oil paints is cold-pressed extra virgin linseed oil, to obtain an optimum oxidisation (drying) of the paint. This increases durability and brushstroke spread. Together, these characteristics result in an oil paint of unequalled quality.

Pigment Classification: Natural earth

Colour Index: PBR7

Colour index number:77492

Lightfastness: Lightfast pigment according to ASTM

Category 1 and 2

Opacity/Transparency: Opaque

Georgian Oil Colour offers high performance at an economical and uniform price across all colours in the range. They are carefully blended and tested to produce the most brilliant colour, and match tint and texture from batch to batch. Traditionally crafted and triple-milled in England, Georgian Oil Colours provide colour consistency from wet to dry and even performance and finish across all colours. • High pigment loads include traditional pigments • Exceptionally permanent and brilliant colours • Colours are intermixable and consistent from wet to dry • Surface dry in 4 to 5 days • Smooth and buttery consistency • Easy mixing with mediums

Pigment classification : Synthetic ultramarine

Colour index : PB29

Colour index number :77007

Lightfastness : Lightfast pigment according to ASTM category 1 and 2

Opacity/transparency : Semi-transparent

Sublime brilliance and intensely deep colours

Optimal colour strength due to the highest possible concentration of pigments and very fine grinding

Highest degree of lightfastness

Very pure colours and greatest durability of the paint coat

PY 43. Fast drying, semi-transparent.French Yellow Ochre is a glowing natural yellow. Ochre, an iron oxide earth pigment, can be traced back to paintings from the Middle Stone Age. Landscapes painters and portrait painters alike will find uses for this soft, natural yellow pigment.

Series number: 4

Chemical Description: Cadmium sulphoselenide

Colour index name: PR108

Colour index number: 77202

Permanence rating: A

ASTM Lightfastness Rating: I

Transparency/Opacity: O



Every Winsor & Newton Artists' Oil Colour is individually formulated to enhance each pigment's natural characteristics and ensure stability of colour. By exercising maximum quality control throughout all stages of manufacture, selecting the most suitable drying oils and method of pigment dispersion, the unique individual properties of each colour are preserved.

Combined with over 170 years of manufacturing and quality control expertise, the formulation of Artist's Oil Colour ensures the best raw materials are made into the World's Finest Colours.

Artists' Oil Colour uses the highest level of pigmentation consistent with the broadest handling properties. The quantity of pigment used provides covering power and tinting strength.

Series number: 1

Chemical Description: Arylamide yellow

Colour index name: PY74

Colour index number: 11741

Permanence rating: A

ASTM Lightfastness Rating: -

Transparency/Opacity: T

As with all Winsor & Newton colours, every colour in the range is individually formulated to take advantage of the natural characteristics of each pigment and to ensure the stability of the colour. The vehicle (oil modified alkyd resin) allows the colour to dry quicker whilst retaining the other characteristics of conventional oil colour.Because alkyd resin has physical properties that differ slightly from those of traditional oils, the pigment load is somewhat different as well. Experienced painters will notice slightly greater transparency compared to Artists' Oil Colour. The colour has been formulated to offer the greatest degree of tinting strength possible (consistent with good handling properties), and to take full advantage of the true characteristics of each pigment.

PB15.3 & PW4. Average Drying. Opaque. Excellent Lightfastness. Low Oil Content.

Pigment classification : Zinc oxide-Naphtol as.-Quinacridone

Colour index : PW4-PR112-PR122

Colour index number :77947-12370-73915

Lightfastness : Lightfast pigment according to ASTM category 1 and 2

Opacity/transparency : Semi-opaque

PBr 7. Very Fast Drying. Transparent. Excellent Lightfastness. Average Oil Content.

A version of Burnt Umber which has heavier and more greenish undertones than the Red variant. This is the colour in its presentation of the last two centuries, invaluable for underpainting and showing a range of sandy pinks in hues.

Sublime brilliance and intensely deep colours

Optimal colour strength due to the highest possible concentration of pigments and very fine grinding

Highest degree of lightfastness

Very pure colours and greatest durability of the paint coat

Unbleached Titanium Dioxide

PW6.1. Fast Drying. Opaque. Excellent Lightfastness. Low Oil Content.

Before Titanium Dioxide is refined to make it white it contains a measure of Iron Oxide, which gives it a subtle linen or limewash pinky-brown shade. As well as making it a good drier, such a presence makes this paint an ideal ground or underpainting colour, with good texture and a lean surface. Some painters use it as a mixing agent in flesh painting.

PB15.3 & PW4. Average Drying. Opaque. Excellent Lightfastness. Low Oil Content.

Series number: 2

Chemical Description: Copper phthalocyanine, Complex sodium alumino - silicate containing sulphur, Carbon black

Colour index name: PB15, PB29, PBk7

Colour index number: 74160, 77007, 77266

Permanence rating: A

ASTM Lightfastness Rating: I

Transparency/Opacity: T





Every Winsor & Newton Artists' Oil Colour is individually formulated to enhance each pigment's natural characteristics and ensure stability of colour. By exercising maximum quality control throughout all stages of manufacture, selecting the most suitable drying oils and method of pigment dispersion, the unique individual properties of each colour are preserved.

Combined with over 170 years of manufacturing and quality control expertise, the formulation of Artist's Oil Colour ensures the best raw materials are made into the world's finest colours.

Artists' Oil Colour uses the highest level of pigmentation consistent with the broadest handling properties. The quantity of pigment used provides covering power and tinting strength.

Corresponds to the basic colour cyan in the subtractive colour mixture; very good glaze effect. Produces brilliant, translucent violet shades when mixed with magenta and brilliant, semi-translucent green shades when mixed with lemon yellow.

Pigment: Phthalocyanine blueCI number: PB 15:3

Lightfastness: *****

On the basis of many years of scientific experience in the field of artists' colours, Schmincke continues to use a broad and diverse scope of artists' oils, which it combines with the most suitable natural dammar resin from Palembang, Indonesia. The amount of dammar resin which is added in colloidal solution depends on the oil requirements of the pigment concerned. The use of different variants of linseed oil purified by means of highly sophisticated processes also predominates in the Mussini artists' resin-oil-colours.The microscopic evaporation pores enable oxygen to penetrate more effectively into the inner layers, thus providing for more even drying of the surface and inner layers. This, in turn, reduces the danger of wrinkling and surface tension during the drying process.

PY35. Fast Drying. Semi-Opaque. Excellent lightfastness. Low Oil Content.

Cadmium Sulphide, with, as its name suggests, a greeny, tangy, sulphurous edge to it which does not run through mixes with quite the same strength as an Arylide lake. An inorganic pigment which lightens and increases the opacity of warm mixes without overthrowing them. The Cadmium range of pigments was introduced into production 1840-1890, as soon as costs permitted, and has proved the most artistically reliable of all the metal compounds discovered in the 19th century.

Sublime brilliance and intensely deep colours

Optimal colour strength due to the highest possible concentration of pigments and very fine grinding

Highest degree of lightfastness

Very pure colours and greatest durability of the paint coat

In 1985, following extensive research, Old Holland presented a revolutionary range of 168 oil paints, each with the highest degree of lightfastness. Traditional, non-lightfast pigments were replaced with modern lightfast pigments with the same colour characteristics as the traditional ones. Thanks to the highest possible concentration of pigment in each colour, the paint has an unprecedented colour strength. Within the unique range of 168 colours, there is a wide range of opaque and transparent colours, each with the highest possible brilliance (intense) and clarity (clean) characteristics. The only medium used for these oil paints is cold-pressed extra virgin linseed oil, to obtain an optimum oxidisation (drying) of the paint. This increases durability and brushstroke spread. Together, these characteristics result in an oil paint of unequalled quality.

Pigment Classification: Synthetic iron oxide

Colour Index: PR101

Colour index number: n.a.

Lightfastness: Lightfast pigment according to ASTM

Category 1 and 2

Opacity/Transparency: Opaque

PBk 9 & PB 29 & PY 42. Average Drying. Semi-Opaque. Excellent Lightfastness. High Oil Content.

A blend of Ivory Black, Ultramarine and Iron Oxide Yellow, which gives a markedly cool black substitute. The blue undertones are similar to but much milder than those of Prussian Blue. Some painters prefer this blend for its restrained tint power, and use it in cool reflex tones in flesh painting.

PBr 7. Very Fast Drying. Semi-Opaque. Excellent Lightfastness. Average Oil Content.

Used as a ground tone and for underpainting since the 17th century, this is one of the indispensable Earth Iron Oxides.

Pigment classification : Natural earth

Colour index : PBR7

Colour index number :77492

Lightfastness : Lightfast pigment according to ASTM category 1 and 2

Opacity/transparency : Opaque

In 1985, following extensive research, Old Holland presented a revolutionary range of 168 oil paints, each with the highest degree of lightfastness. Traditional, non-lightfast pigments were replaced with modern lightfast pigments with the same colour characteristics as the traditional ones. Thanks to the highest possible concentration of pigment in each colour, the paint has an unprecedented colour strength. Within the unique range of 168 colours, there is a wide range of opaque and transparent colours, each with the highest possible brilliance (intense) and clarity (clean) characteristics. The only medium used for these oil paints is cold-pressed extra virgin linseed oil, to obtain an optimum oxidisation (drying) of the paint. This increases durability and brushstroke spread. Together, these characteristics result in an oil paint of unequalled quality.

Pigment Classification: Quinacridone-Anthraquinone-Azocondensation

Colour Index: PR19-PR177-PBR23

Colour index number: 73900-65300-20060

Lightfastness: Lightfast pigment according to ASTM

Category 1 and 2

Opacity/Transparency: Transparent

PR 108. Fast Drying. Opaque. Excellent Lightfastness. Low Oil Content.

A cooler, plummier red in the Cadmium range which yields maroon hues and which can be used to make heavy, greenish blacks when added to the Phthalocyanine Green Lakes, to which it is approximately complimentary.

PY1.1. Slow Drying. Transparent. Very Good Lightfastness. High Oil Content.

A much warmer version of PY.1, Arylide Yellow G, exhibiting beautiful yet subtle bronze-gold undertones in complex mixes, and which has the high tint power to let these influence even the heaviest combinations of earths.