An Artistic Endeavor

This is my stardard palette and I’ve found very little that I couldn’t paint with these colors.  After reading extensively about Micheal Harding Oil paints I ordered a few tubes but haven’t used them…yet.  I will post my thoughts as soon as I have.  I have used Robert Doak Oils almost exclusively for years.  His paints are hand made an of the highest quality.  His flake whites are incredible and he offers rare and interesting colors, but unfortunatly there’s a minimum order and sometimes all I need is one tube.  The only problems that I have with Doak Oils is that some tubes are “chalky” and some are “oily”.  Since I use maroger medium, the chalkyness isn’t a big issue, but oily paints are far harder to work with.  On first inspection, the Harding oils seem to have a more even consistancy – they might be the perfect paint…we’ll see.  Both are known as fine artist quality paints and have an extremely high pigment load.  I’ve used lower grade paints and noticed a huge differance in the paint handling and tinting strength.

Flake & Titanium White (Doak)
Naples Yellow
Yellow Ochre
Cadmium Yellow Light
Cadmium Red Light
Alizarin Crimson
Burnt Sienna
Burnt Umber
Raw Umber
Ultramarine Blue
Lamp Black

Rarely Used Favorites:

Blue Ochre Med. (Doak)
Cobalt Green Dp. (Doak)
Raw Olive Umber (Doak)
Trans. Sepia (Doak)
Etc….

Glass palette - backed with neutral/mid-value grey paper. Glass is non-porous and easy to scrape and clean. The neutral mid-grey paper backing aids in the accuracy of color and value mixing.