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Genuine Manganese Blue

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Our genuine Manganese Blue is the authentic single pigment, PB 33 – Barium Manganate. Smooth and transparent, this heavenly blue mineral pigment is delicate but not weak! Because our Manganese Blue is not a hue and is not a mixture containing Phthalocyanine (Phthalo) Blue, the consistency and color strength is […]

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King's & Video Blue: The Essential Palette

King’s & Video Blue: The Essential Palette

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King’s & Video Blue: The Essential Palette Are blue tints, such as our King’s and Video Blue, essential colors for your palette or only supplemental mixtures, merely for convenience? True, our King’s Blue, for instance, is Ultramarine tinted with white. But when it is purchased already mixed, the result is […]

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Welcome Phthalo Blues!

Welcome Phthalo Blues!

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Welcome Phthalo Blues to your palette! Without question, Phthalo Blue is bright, strong and often overpowering in a mixture. Newer variations, such as our Phthalo Blue, green shade and our Phthalo Blue, red shade offer a greater range of mixing possibilities for today’s painter. Here’s a few reasons why any […]

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Mars Colors: Bold and Bright

Mars Colors: Bold and Bright

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Mars Colors: Bold and Bright Along with Cadmiums, Cobalts and Chromium, Mars Colors, from yellow to violet, were among the bright new inventions of 19th century color chemistry that subsequently sparked a color revolution in painting. Mars Colors were favored early on by the Pre-Raphaelite painters, such as the example […]

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Balenciaga and Spanish painting

Balenciaga and Spanish painting

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Balenciaga and Spanish painting The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum presented through September 22, 2019, the exhibition Balenciaga and Spanish painting, connecting the work of Cristóbal Balenciaga, the most admired and influential fashion designer of all time, with the tradition of 16th- to 20th-century Spanish painting. References to Spanish art and culture are […]

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The Secret is the Paint

The Secret is the Paint

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The Secret is the Paint The paint itself, not an obscure medium or oil, is the true secret of the Old Masters. Using coarsely ground natural earth colors, masters such as Rembrandt, employed the natural luminosity of these larger particle size pigments to create stunning illusions of brocaded fabrics or […]

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Adrian Martinez at Historic Yellow Springs

Adrian Martinez at Historic Yellow Springs

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Study with Adrian Martinez at Historic Yellow Springs Adrian Martinez, an internationally known artist, instructor and lecturer, will teach both a 5-week Friday class, Painting Techniques – Grisaille and Glazing and 2-day Saturday-Sunday workshop, Abstract Art Workshop at the Chester Springs Studio in Historic Yellow Springs, Chester Springs, PA. The […]

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Our highly pigmented Cadmium Yellows

A Day with the Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters Association

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We were delighted to help sponsor the Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters Association’s (MAPAPA) Annual Meeting this year, at the Chesapeake Fine Arts Studio, in Stevensville, MD on April 6th. It was an amazing day of activity and insightful presentations including painting demonstrations by Larry Moore (in oils) and by Stewart […]

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Prussian Blue: First Blue

Prussian Blue: First Blue

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Prussian Blue: First Blue Prussian Blue, the first blue synthetic pigment for artists, dates back to 1704. Its accidental discovery by a Berlin color maker, Diesbach, was a closely guarded secret for the next two decades until the formulation was published, in 1724. By this time an intern of Diesbach, […]

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Painting From Life Portraiture

Painting From Life, Portraiture

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Painting From Life, Portraiture Work from Sharon Sprung’s morning class, Painting From Life, Portraiture, came up for exhibition on February 4, 2019, in this year’s The Student Concours at The Art Students League of New York. On view for just a week in the Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery at The […]

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Portraits of Immigrants: New York Exhibition

Portraits of Immigrants: New York Exhibition

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Portraits of Immigrants: New York Exhibition Betsy Ashton exhibits 16 of her life-size portrait paintings, alongside their inspiring stories, January 22nd through February 15th, 2019, in Andrew Hall on the third floor of Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue. Portraits of Immigrants New York exhibition is open to the public weekdays […]

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