On Test: Ken Bromley Artist’ Oil Paints

My Title is Sean O’Grady and I’m a landscape painter and pet portrait artist. I reside in the attractive county of Dorset.  I perform completely in oil paint as I get pleasure from the richness of the colours and textures you can produce. I’m in this article to share with you my views on the Ken Bromley Artist’ Oil Paint selection.

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I have been utilizing Ken Bromley Artist’ Oil Paints for a selection of decades. I find them great high quality, fantastic price for cash with a superior color consistency and an substantial array of colours. The total 37 colour range is made available in 60ml tube dimensions.  This implies you get a lot of paint for your money in comparison to other brand names.

Importantly, the titanium white is also available in bigger 225ml tubes, as well as just one which is a swift dry. This is extremely useful as we have a tendency to use a good deal of white when doing the job with oil paint.

Ken Bromley Artist’ Oil Paints are built in the United kingdom in little batches employing the greatest pigments producing them a real artist high quality paint but at a portion of the charge of other massive models.  The price tag makes them ideal for any individual contemplating of seeking oils for the 1st time as you are not set off by the price tag. Also, they are also great for any person who is now is effective in oils and may well reward from making use of significantly less costly paint without sacrificing quality.

They are thick in consistency when squeezed from the tube.  Enabling you to produce a complete range of portray techniques from hefty impasto, to gorgeous washes of color or glazes. Effortlessly thinned down with solvent or any painting medium they perform nicely on any painting surface area, from stretched canvas, portray panels and MDF boards.  

My color palette

The large the vast majority of the selection are single pigment colours. They mix properly together manufacturing some lovely color combinations as you can see from some of my colour charts down below.  Over the many years I have been applying Ken Bromley Artist’ Oil Paints, I have identified no fading or deterioration of color. My palette consists of

• Cadmium Yellow
• Lemon Yellow
• Cadmium red
• Alizarin Crimson
• French ultramarine
• Cobalt blue
• Cerulean blue
• Violet
• Cadmium orange
• Viridian Eco-friendly
• Burnt umber
• Raw umber
• Ivory Black
• Titanium White

Terrific colour mixing abilities

I’m normally experimenting with my colors to see what good mixes of colors I can acquire. In the pursuing illustrations or photos exhibit a assortment of colours designed by mixing paints from the range.

I have established color charts working with Richard Schmid’s strategy. This involves generating a pure color chart with paints, specifically from the tube, on the major row and then each and every row down receives lighter as far more white is included. Then I have made a separate chart for each individual of my colours (color dominant charts). I have taken the most important (dominant) color e.g. Viridian and blended it with the other colours from my palette. So each and every column contains the dominant colour mixed with a person of the other colours from my palette. As just before the rows downwards then get lighter as extra white is additional to the two combined colours. This is a good physical exercise to do, specially with your most commonly employed colours, as it reminds you what colors can be attained by cross mixes of colours.

In summary

I know from encounter that the price of oil paints can be off putting for a whole lot of fellow artists.  This is why the big model companies supply less costly university student ranges of oil paints.  Nonetheless these student ranges are not as fantastic as skilled paints.  They really do not have the exact same mixtures of pigment to oil and can have extenders and fillers additional.  So why waste your tough earned income on lesser good quality paints when for a bit additional you could be utilizing Artist high quality oil paints.

Look at the value of other brands and see the variance for yourself.  I carefully advise working with Ken Bromley Artist’ Oil Paints I have not question that you will not be disappointed.

I hope to give a lot more details on my painting strategy in a long term article. Happy portray.

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See Sean O’Grady’s perform at www.seanogrady.co.british isles or www.petsportraitsstudio.co.uk, You can keep up to date with Sean on his Fb page – Sean O’Grady wonderful artwork

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