Which is the best quality oil paint to use??

In this order:





Old Holland, Robert Doak, Williamsburg, Gamblin, and Bloxx





Old holland is pigment dense and is only mixed with cold pressed linseed oil. It is more expensive but a tube lasts longer since it has less medium mixed in with it. You can mix your one mediums in with it.


You can buy at any big art supply store





Robert Doak is this genius in Brooklyn who makes his own paints with authentic traditional recipes. Very High quality, but he uses a good amount of medium. He does have colors you can't get anywhere else.





http://www.robertdoakart.com/page/page/5鈥?/a>





Williamsburg Art Materials is very close to old holland just as pigment rich and just as expensive...great paints though:


http://www.williamsburgoilpaint.bizland.鈥?/a>





Gamblin, high quality but they use too much medium for my taste





Bloxx I don't know much about but I have good things about it.Which is the best quality oil paint to use??
There is no perfect answer to your question. Most artists who paint a lot will use many brands at once. I have been painting for over thirty years use five different manufactuers' oil paint on almost every artwork. This is because each brand of paint will differ in thickness (or fluidity), and artists eventually find and use what brands work best for the kind of painting they do. Also, although many manufacturers may carry the same color name on a tube of paint, each of these will differ in many ways and blend differently with other colors (especially with white). Lastly, some of the more unusual or vivid paint colors are not made by every company.





So, I would suggest that you start by buying six or eight of the basic colors from a medium-priced manufacturer, like Winsor-Newton or Grumbacher. Then, as you can afford or need them, try other colors and brands. You will soon find you have both favorites and tubes you hate.Which is the best quality oil paint to use??
Any ';artist grade'; paint with a reputable name is good enough. Utrecht, Windsor%26amp;Newton, Old Holland, etc. When shopping oil paint, its the NAME OF THE COLOR you want to be mindful of. Stay away from weird colors using imitation pigments. If the pigment has a NUMBER, such as PY23, or Br5, or whatever, then that's how you know it is sanctioned by the organization that approves pigments. Read the label on the paint tube and note the ';lightfast'; quality (how it stands up to fading over time).
I wouldn't get caught up into thinking the high price stuff out there is better than the less expensive oils. Alot of todays less expensive oils are certainly of better quality than the masters themselves used back then and look how long their work has lasted. What it comes down to is, you try this brand and that brand and in the end its just a matter of prefrence based on experience with and whether you get the desired effect. I don't know of anyone that can walk up to a painting and tell what brand the artist used.
Old Holland is the classic oil paint of very high quality!


Almost pure pigment (except for the necessary linseed oil)!





I`ve been working as a professional artist for the last three years and I only use Old Holland!


The only downside I can think of is the price!





PS: If you choose another brand, be sure it`s artist quality
Oils: Winsor and Newton





Acrylics: Atelier