Artists' Oil Color, 37ml, Ivory Black

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W&N are a ripoff compared to Micheal harding.. but not this starter set. Perfect for starting out and a good size for miniature painters.

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The class I'm taking sends out the supplies, and we're using Old Holland, which is arguably the most expensive oil paint on the planet. I picked this up for a Creative Bug class on doing an oil painting a day for 30 days and I'm so glad I did. This was a lot easier to work with. For one thing the consistency of the paint was superior. It's just a bit denser than toothpaste without adding any oil, and it takes up oil reasonably gradually, so you can take it to the point where you can manipulate it without it suddenly going to a wash. The consistency is ... well... consistent across all the colors. For another thing the pigments seem to me to be more pure. If I mix the colors they come out really close to what I expect. See, if the blue is more blue with yellow then when you try to mix purple you get a muddy color. If it's blue and nothing but blue, mixed with red and nothing but red, you get a vibrant purple. At least that's my understanding, and that's what I'm experiencing here. I will admit, I've used their watercolors (they are the gold standard for watercolors) and their acrylics and their gouache before, so I am familiar with their color lineup so that might have helped. They just make really great paint across the board so I keep going back to them. These seem to dry a little slower than Old Holland, but I don't know if one is unusually slow or the other unusually fast. I can only compare the two. Normally, that's just the way oil is. It's known to be slow drying. For the class, I switched paints and didn't say anything. I got better results when I started with this paint and more positive feedback from my teachers. The super expensive paint can sit in the box. I'm using the good stuff - Winsor and Newton.

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