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PRODUCT FEA TURE

Daler-Rowney Georgian Oil Colours Richeson “Shiva Series” exactly in the same way as paints
Georgian Oil Colours offer artists Artists Oil Colours were made throughout Renaissance
high quality and performance at Richeson “Shiva Series” are professional Europe. The result is a paint that is
an economical and uniform price quality, superior oil colours that more opaque, has a thicker paste
across all colours in the range. They commenced production in the USA density that accentuates the brush
are produced to the same exacting in 1929. They are hand-crafted in the strokes and a rougher finished coat.
standards as Daler-Rowney Artists Richeson factory using only pure, The application and finished result of
Oil Colours. They are carefully artist grade dry pigments, each ground paintings using Coarsely Ground oil
blended and tested to produce the to its own unique degree of fineness colours are markedly different from
most brilliant colour and match tint then formulated with the finest grade those done with modern colours.
and texture from batch to batch. All of alkali-refined linseed oil under The artist will not only need to
54 colours have fine working qualities exacting laboratory controls. After adjust their techniques accordingly
and a high degree of performance. manufacture, the colours are cured to get the best out of these paints,
Daler-Rowney Georgian Oil Colours from 90 to 120 days to ensure they but also the mediums they use,
are ideal for use with a knife or are ready for packaging and each tube specifically when thinning out these
a brush, allowing for a variety of label then displays an actual sample colours. It is highly recommended
effects to be achieved. Available in of the colour contained in that tube. that these colours are not thinned with
38ml, 75ml and 225ml tubes. Five Richeson Oils are guaranteed to the traditional solvent based thinners
litre tubs are available upon request. be permanent, free from darkening, such as White Spirit and turpentine
yellowing, fading and cracking. These but instead use walnut or safflower
Maimeri Puro Superior oil Colours professional quality oil colours are oil. It is also recommended that hard
Puro Oils contain pure pigment and available in 59 colours and feature bristle, ox hair or synthetic brushes are
oil – nothing else. Each colour in the traditional, Olde World pigments used to get the best finished results.
range contains pigments of maximum to produce brilliant, rich colours
quality, purity and stability combined of buttery, reliable consistency Renaissance Oil Colours by Maimeri
with top quality safflower-poppy seed yet are priced for everyone. Each colour in the Renaissance range
oils that do not yellow, to produce has a high pigment concentration
a perfect impasto with the highest Coarsely Ground Oil Colours and is prepared with grain size and
possible degree of lightfastness for Coarsely Ground oil colours are dispersion in walnut oil similar to
each colour. There are 80 colours exactly what the name implies – those of Renaissance compositions.
in the ranges over six series. The they have been manufactured with Most of the pigments in this range
transparency and lightfastness of each pigments that have been coarsely correspond to the originals; however
colour is indicated on each tube along ground and rare semi drying oils the more toxic, unstable and hard to
with the chemical composition. such as walnut oil and safflower oil, mix pigments have been replaced with

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