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Making Oil Paint
The process of making paint includes running paint through a mill. This step determines "the grind", or how fine or coarse each color becomes. Each pigment reveals different characteristics at different levels of milling. Whether it is work-ability, texture or the color itself, the grind is determined by what brings out the best balance for each color.
Painting with Williamsburg Neutral Grays
Check your local retailer for Williamsburg New Neutral Gray Set based on the Munsell Color System, helps you adjust value and chroma of any color without altering hue. Take a quick look at the creation and use of neutral gray colors within the Williamsburg palette and explore neutralizing colors while preserving value using the Munsell color system as well Grisaille, the practice of underpainting in grayscale then applying color glazes.
Find the Munsell data for every color in the Williamsburg palette here.
Go deep into the Earth (colors)
We will take you through the extensive palette of earth colors offered in Williamsburg Oil paints, breaking down the differences between natural, mined pigments, and colors that have been synthesized. Explore the texture, transparency and utility of these colors in your painting!
The drying time chart referenced in this video can be found here: https://goldenhub.goldenpaints.com/storage/uploads/williamsburg-drytime-chart-091818.pdf
For a listing of all our colors categorized by their relative grind (very fine to coarse) see this list from our website: https://goldenhub.goldenpaints.com/storage/uploads/grind-category-pdf-1.pdf​
Four 8-Color Mixing Sets by Williamsburg Oils
11 ml tubes of color plus a 37 ml tube of Titanium White make each of these four sets perfect for trying new colors or an entirely new palette from which you can mix a new range of colors. Williamsburg has one of the most extensive selection of oil colors available anywhere, and these sets can help you narrow down options and begin personalizing your palette.
Williamsburg Drying Times Chart
Williamsburg Modern Color Mixing Guide
The Subtleties of Color
Artists thrive on subtleties that can make all the difference, the search for colors that meet their needs is endless.
Solving the Solvents (solvent-free oil painting)
Oil paint is the most natural and safe material used for painting but, through misconception, considered dangerous.
Williamsburg’s Safflower Colors
Safflower allows certain colors to hold onto a luminosity that would otherwise be lost. Learn more about it and the safflower colors we offer.
Williamsburg Handmade Oil Colors SDS
Information on chemical properties; health, and environmental health hazards; protective measures; and safety precautions for handling, storing, and transportion.