No solvents required…
Unusual among traditional oil paints, Winsor & Newton Artisan Oil is soluble in water but offers all the painting qualities required by the most demanding artists:
- smooth consistency,
- good lightfastness,
- excellent opacity or transparency,
- optimal colour mixing,
- glazes
- and beautiful impastos.
Made with specially treated linseed oil and safflower oil, you can mix and clean up the Artisan oil with water. Therefore, you will not require turpentine or other solvents. You can work in a healthy and odourless environment thanks to this remarkable oil paint.
Artisan oil is ideal for many artists!
- Art students and teachers in institutions where the use of solvents is forbidden.
- Artists who are allergic to solvents or working with other artists who are.
- Artists whose work areas are small and it is necessary to limit fumes.
- Travelers and plein-air artists: Artisan colours and mediums can be easily transported by plane.
Artisan colours are diluted with water instead of solvents. You must add the water progressively and mix it well on the palette. If too much water is used or added too quickly, certain colours can lather and form air bubbles. This reaction can be reduced and even avoided by using the Artisan thinner (Product code 21421) or by mixing water with an Artisan medium. When adding water the shade of certain colours will fade but the colour will get its original shade back as soon as the water evaporates. This colour variation is also reduced by the use of Artisan mediums in addition to water, or by the use of Artisan thinner.
The perfect balance between pigments and the treated linseed and safflower oils offers Artisan colours a butter-like and smooth consistency worthy of the best extra-fine oils. This texture allows the application of numerous techniques and gives a multitude of possibilities to the artist.
Painting with Artisan requires the application of the same rules as with traditional oil paint, which are:
- Fat over lean (flexible on more flexible): each layer must be more flexible than the last one to favour the drying at the centre of the painting and the air penetration to the internal layers.
- Thick over thin: thick layers of oil paint are more easily applied onto thinner layers. Thin layers applied on impastos have a larger risk of cracking.
Basic Palette and Recommended Colour Mixes
Your initial palette must cover a large chromatic spectrum and offer a good balance between opaque and transparent colours, but also between intense and light shades. We therefore recommend the Artisan basic palette composed of:
- Lemon Yellow,
- Cadmium Yellow,
- Cadmium Red Medium,
- Permanent Rose,
- Permanent Alizarin Crimson,
- Ultramarine,
- Phthalo Blue Red Shade,
- Phthalo Green Blue Shade,
- Umber,
- Yellow ochre,
- Burnt Sienna,
- Titanium White.
The 6 shades “primary” palette uses two reds, two yellows and two blues. This allows for instance, a bluish red and a yellowish red, which will ensure cool violets and bright oranges on your palette. In the Artisan range, these 6 colours are:
- Lemon Yellow,
- Cadmium Yellow,
- Ultramarine,
- Phthalo Blue Red Shade,
- Permanent Rose,
- Cadmium Red.
How does Winsor & Newton Artisan Mixable Oil dry?
Just like traditional oils, the paint layer dries by oxidation in 2 to 12 days, with each shade having its own formula. However, here is a guide for the different drying times:
- Fast (about 2 days): Prussian blue, Umber.
- Regular (about 5 days): Cadmium colours, Phthalo Blue Red Shade, Phthalo green, Sienna, French Ultramarine, Yellow Ochre, Titanium White, Zinc White, Lamp Black and Ivory Black.
- Long (more than 5 days): Permanent Rose, Permanent Alizarin Crimson.
It is recommended not to leave the artwork to dry in a dark or wet room in order to avoid the yellowing of the paint. Also please wait between 6 and 12 months before applying a varnish.
How to clean Winsor & Newton Artisan Mixable Oil?
You can simply clean residual paint with water and soap. You can also clean your brushes the day you use them in order to keep them in good shape.
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