Old Holland : Classic Oil Paint

Name: Old Holland : Classic Oil Paint
Brand: Old Holland
SKU: P-OHCO

100+ colours available in 40ml, 60ml and 225ml, 2 available in 475ml and 1000ml.

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Old Holland : Classic Oil Paint

100+ colours available in 40ml, 60ml and 225ml, 2 available in 475ml and 1000ml.

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Founded in 1664 during the Dutch Golden Age of Painting, Old Holland has more than three centuries of experience making artist oil paints. They are a popular choice for artists wanting densely pigmented oil colours with the highest possible lightfastness.

Old Holland's range of 168 oil paints each has the highest degree of lightfastness. Traditional, non-lightfast pigments were replaced with modern lightfast pigments with the same colour characteristics as the traditional ones. Thanks to the highest possible concentration of pigment in each colour, the paint has an unprecedented colour strength.

Within the unique range there is a wide range of opaque and transparent colours, each with the highest possible brilliance (intense) and clarity (clean) characteristics. The only medium used for these oil paints is cold-pressed extra virgin linseed oil, used to obtain optimum oxidisation (drying) of the paint. This increases durability and brushstroke spread. Together, these characteristics result in an oil paint of unequalled quality.

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SKU	P-OHCO
To use with	Oil
Quality	Highest
Colour Lightfast	No

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There’s a reason why Old Holland are regarded as some of the best paints in the world. I find it very hard to work with any other brand now, because the thickness of their consistency and the fact you can feel that they are laden with pigment is just so enjoyable to work with. Their range of colours is huge and so it’s hard to know which shades to buy, but I have a staple palette of a handful of colours that I have returned to over and over again over the course of 15 years or so - including Indian Yellow, Transparent Yellow Oxide, Blue-Grey, Yellow Light, Raw Umber, Terre Verte, Indigo, Ultramarine Red-Pink, Warm Grey Light, Ivory Black, Cadmium Red Purple, Paynes Grey, Red Gold, and Mixed White No. 2. I have come to rely on these colours and whenever I’ve tried equivalents in other brands I have been underwhelmed.

I thin them with a little Gamsol and paint without mediums - only occasionally I might use Gamblin’s Solvent free gel or Liquin when laying in an underpainting.

If I need to reign in my spending I will use Jackson’s Artist oil paints for underpainting and then go over the top with Old Holland oil colour mixes. The range has a fair share of single pigment paints for the most vibrant possible colour, but that’s not really the USP of this range - instead its all those perfect pigment blends they have come up with, which spoil us painters as they are so beautiful, you can often just apply them from the tube without the need to endlessly mix more muted hues on your palette.
(Posted on 18/07/2022)

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View PDF Old Holland Classic Oil Colour Chart.

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SKU	P-OHCO
To use with	Oil
Quality	Highest
Colour Lightfast	No

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