# Paint

26/01/04 - reworking my desk so that the right side is usable for painting. organizing a bunch of old ( as in some are 28 years old ) watercolor and oil paints. It's been so long I've forgotten names and the qualities of each so I'm starting a new reference card here.

![](/img/paint.jpg)

## Notes

The importance of a good palette can't be understated. I'm a big fan of simple and consistent. I'd rather obscure the actual color and capture the light to retain the feel. Ruined a number of paintings halfway into em by experimenting with a new color.   


## References

- _Artists Handbook Of Materials And Techniques_ - Ralph Mayer - https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.70073
- https://www.paintlist.com
- https://charlescecilstudios.com
- https://www.artiscreation.com/Color_index_names.html
- https://www.artiscreation.com/books.html



## Binders

## Brands

Sometimes different colors for different brands but these are my favorites in order:

- M. Graham
- Sennelier 
- Old Holland
- Micheal Harding
- Gamblin
- Lefranc & Bourgeois ( but the tubes keep busting on me - every busted tube in my box is this brand ... also evidently bought out by W&N and can't get em in the US anymore )
- Windsor & Newton

https://blueridgeoilpaint.com/about-us/  
https://gamblinstore.com/big-imperfect-tubes-series-1/  


## Colors

- Blues
  - Cadmium
  - Cobalt
  - Ultramarine
  - Phthalo
- Greens
 - Veridian
- Yellows
  - Ochre
  - Cadmium
- Oranges
  - Cadmium
- Reds
  - Oxide
  - Cadmium
  - Alizarin
- Purples
  - dioxazine
  - quinacridone
- Umbers
- Whites
- Blacks

## Mediums

### Fat Over Lean

keep cracks from appearing because lower layers dry before top layers. thin lower layers and upper layers should use more oil - hence more fat. 

### Glazing

## Inventory

### Acrylic

### Gouache

### Oil

### Watercolor

- Oxide of Chromium / Veridian 


## Reference Cards

![](/img/paint-graham-oil.jpg)
<div style={{display: 'flex',  justifyContent:'center', alignItems:'center', fontSize:'small', marginBottom:'20px'}}>M. Graham Oils</div>

![](/img/paint-sennelier-oil.jpg)
![](/img/paint-sennelier-oil-2.jpg)
![](/img/paint-sennelier-oil-3.jpg)
![](/img/paint-sennelier-oil-4.jpg)
<div style={{display: 'flex',  justifyContent:'center', alignItems:'center', fontSize:'small', marginBottom:'20px'}}>Sennelier</div>

![](/img/paint-old-holland-oil.jpg)
<div style={{display: 'flex',  justifyContent:'center', alignItems:'center', fontSize:'small', marginBottom:'20px'}}>Old Holland Oils</div>

![](/img/paint-graham-water.jpg)
<div style={{display: 'flex',  justifyContent:'center', alignItems:'center', fontSize:'small', marginBottom:'20px'}}>M. Graham Watercolor</div>

## Toxic 

☠️ https://davidawindham.com/black-oil-stand-oil/

Gamblin safety for schools - https://gamblincolors.com/studio-safety/guideforschools/

**Toxicity**: lead, cadmium, mercury, cobalt, barium, chromium, arsenic

Binus University - [SAFETY OF ARTISTIC PIGMENTS](https://base.binus.ac.id/2017/12/28/safety-of-artistic-pigments/). 

Toxic
- antimony white (antimony trioxide)
- barium yellow (barium chromate)
- burnt or raw umber (iron oxides, manganese silicates or dioxide)
- cadmium red, orange or yellow (cadmium sulfide, cadmium selenide)
- chrome green (Prussian blue, lead chromate)
- chrome orange (lead carbonate)
- chrome yellow (lead chromate)
- cobalt violet (cobalt arsenate or cobalt phosphate)
- cobalt yellow (potassium cobalt nitrate)
- lead or flake white (lead carbonate)
- lithol red (sodium, barium and calcium salts of azo pigments)
- manganese violet (manganese ammonium pyrophosphate)
- molybdate orange (lead chromate, lead molybdate, lead sulfate)
- naples yellow (lead antimonate)
- strontium yellow (strontium chromate)
- vermilion (mercuric sulfide)
- zinc sulfide
- zinc yellow (zinc chromate)

Moderate
- alizarin crimson
- carbon black
- cerulean blue (cobalt stannate)
- cobalt blue (cobalt stannate)
- cobalt green (calcined cobalt, zinc and aluminum oxides)
- chromium oxide green (chromic oxide)
- Phthalo blue and greens (copper phthalocyanine)
- manganese blue (barium manganate, barium sulfate)
- Prussian blue (ferric ferrocyanide)
- toluidine red and yellow (insoluble azo pigment)
- viridian (hydrated chromic oxide)
- zinc white (zinc oxide)