Small size tubes of traditional oil paints and watermixable oil paints are especially handy for painting in the field. A smaller size tube fits better in your pochade box and means your travel kit can either be smaller or you can take more colours with you when you paint outdoors.

Small size tubes are great for trying out a new brand of oil paint but clever plein air painters also snap them up for their pochade boxes!
At Jackson’s Art Supplies we have an enormous selection of oil colours but only a few come in very small size tubes, and those are all in sets. The small tubes are in starter or trial sets in sizes 12ml, 15ml, 18ml, 20ml, 21ml and 22ml.

Starter Sets of small tubes are useful for plein air oil painters –
their small size works well for your outdoor paint box.
Many manufacturers make these introductory sets which can be useful for plein air painters.
Small size tubes in traditional oil paints:
•Old Holland Classic Oils are available in 18ml tubes
•Shin Han Oil Colour is available in 20ml tubes
•Daler-Rowney Simply is available in 12ml tubes
•Rembrandt Oil Colour is available in 15ml tubes
•Daler-Rowney Georgian Oil Colour is available in 22ml size tubes
•Pebeo XL Oil Colour is available in 20ml tubes
•Maimeri Classico Fine Oil Colour is available in 20ml tubes
•Winsor & Newton Artists Oil Colours are available in 21ml tubes
•Winsor & Newton Winton Oil Colours are available in 21ml tubes

Intro sets with small tubes of traditional oils are a great resource for plein air painters to find handy small tubes.
Small size tubes in water-mixable oil paints:
•Holbein Duo Aqua Water Mixable Oils are available in 10 and 20ml tubes
•Daler-Rowney Georgian Water Mixable Oils are available in 20ml tubes

Intro sets with small tubes of water-mixable oils are a great resource for plein air painters to find handy small tubes.
May is Plein Air Painting Month at Jackson’s Art Supplies!
With two Bank Holiday weekends and Spring weather just arriving May is the time to get back outdoors to paint or sketch. Read these other posts about outdoor painting and sketching. Some of you hardy dedicated painters paint outdoors from life year round and we salute you!
Visit the website to see all the useful supplies for working outside in the Jackson’s Art Plein Air Painting Department.
Click on the underlined link to go to the current offers on small size tubes of traditional oil paints and watermixable oil paints on the Jackson’s Art Supplies website.
Postage on orders shipped standard to mainland UK addresses is free for orders of £39.
Get outside and paint

Painting by Claude Monet 1887
In the Woods at Giverny: Blanche Hoschedé at Her Easel with Suzanne Hoschedé Reading
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