On Test: Ken Bromley Artist’ Oil Paints

My Identify is Sean O’Grady and I’m a landscape painter and pet portrait artist. I stay in the lovely county of Dorset.  I operate completely in oil paint as I enjoy the richness of the colors and textures you can build. I’m listed here to share with you my feelings on the Ken Bromley Artist’ Oil Paint vary.

I have been working with Ken Bromley Artist’ Oil Paints for a quantity of several years. I uncover them excellent good quality, exceptional value for income with a good color consistency and an intensive variety of colours. The entire 37 colour selection is available in 60ml tube dimensions.  This signifies you get a whole lot of paint for your money in comparison to other models.

Importantly, the titanium white is also made available in much larger 225ml tubes, moreover a person which is a speedy dry. This is really handy as we are inclined to use a ton of white when doing the job with oil paint.

Ken Bromley Artist’ Oil Paints are made in the Uk in modest batches applying the finest pigments making them a true artist high-quality paint but at a portion of the expense of other big makes.  The price will make them excellent for any individual imagining of hoping oils for the to start with time as you’re not place off by the price tag. Additionally, they are also great for any person who is at present is effective in oils and may benefit from employing less high priced paint with no sacrificing good quality.

They are thick in regularity when squeezed from the tube.  Enabling you to produce a total variety of portray methods from major impasto, to wonderful washes of color or glazes. Simply thinned down with solvent or any portray medium they operate very well on any painting surface area, from stretched canvas, portray panels and MDF boards.  

My colour palette

The wide greater part of the vary are one pigment colors. They combine nicely jointly creating some wonderful colour mixtures as you can see from some of my colour charts under.  Over the yrs I have been utilizing Ken Bromley Artist’ Oil Paints, I have identified no fading or deterioration of colour. My palette is composed of

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

Terrific color mixing capabilities

I’m usually experimenting with my colors to see what great mixes of colours I can acquire. In the next photos exhibit a selection of colors established by mixing paints from the array.

I have produced color charts using Richard Schmid’s strategy. This requires developing a pure color chart with paints, right from the tube, on the top rated row and then each row down gets lighter as far more white is additional. Then I have designed a separate chart for each and every of my colours (color dominant charts). I have taken the main (dominant) color e.g. Viridian and combined it with the other colors from my palette. So every single column contains the dominant colour combined with a single of the other colors from my palette. As prior to the rows downwards then get lighter as extra white is included to the two mixed colors. This is a wonderful work out to do, particularly with your most regularly used colors, as it reminds you what colours can be attained by cross mixes of colours.

In summary

I know from practical experience that the price of oil paints can be off placing for a great deal of fellow artists.  This is why the huge brand name producers give more cost-effective student ranges of oil paints.  However these pupil ranges are not as superior as specialist paints.  They really do not have the very same mixtures of pigment to oil and can have extenders and fillers added.  So why waste your challenging earned funds on lesser good quality paints when for a little bit much more you could be employing Artist top quality oil paints.

Assess the price of other manufacturers and see the change for your self.  I thoroughly propose applying Ken Bromley Artist’ Oil Paints I have not question that you will not be disappointed.

I hope to give additional details on my painting technique in a potential posting. Delighted painting.

See Sean O’Grady’s work at www.seanogrady.co.uk or www.petsportraitsstudio.co.united kingdom, You can hold up to day with Sean on his Facebook webpage – Sean O’Grady wonderful artwork