PV15. Average Drying. Transparent. Excellent Lightfastness. Average Oil Content.

A variant of Ultramarine pigment, achieved when slightly altering the manufacture of the blue shade, Sodium Sulphosilicate, by heating it with Chloride. The result is a weaker, more violet pigment which has low tint power and a degree of transparency that lends itself to being exploited in glazes or thin bodycolour. In hues it becomes a high-keyed, rather fluffy mauve which landscapists have found apposite for the brighter tones of clear skies and for the modelling of sunlit clouds.

PG7. Fast Drying. Transparent. Excellent Lightfastness. High Oil Content.

Polychloro Copper Phthalocyanine probably ties with Phthalo Blue as the strongest pigment in the range. Atomic tint power, add it with great care! Ferocious acidy blue-green hues and blue undertones which come to prominence in mixes with yellows. In common with the Blue it displays, on drying and when used virtually unmixed, a certain tendency to show surface bronzing.

PY3 & PG7 & PW4 & PW6. Average Drying. Opaque. Excellent Lightfastness. Low Oil Content.

Another blend of organic lake colours ( Arylide yellow and Phthalo Green) with the two whites to give a safe and permanent substitute for the original Emerald Green, the notorious Copper Aceto-Arsenite, a brilliant green introduced circa 1810 and long since abandoned as being impermanent, highly reactive with other pigments and highly poisonous! My blend has none of these disadvantages. Some artists detest this uniquely strident colour, others love its acerbic tang, which invites an almost Fauve series of related mixes.

PBr24. Fast Drying. Semi-Opaque. Excellent Lightfastness. Low Oil Content.

This beautifully golden paint makes bronze-like hues and works very well with the low Earths.

PR 101. Very Fast Drying. Transparent. Excellent Lightfastness. Average Oil Content.

An Iron Oxide manufactured to such small pigment particle size that it shows, like its Yellow counterpart, almost lake-like characteristics. Terrific tint power which produces wonderful results in mixes with yellows, and which can give gravity to mid-red tones.

PO 73. Average Drying. Semi Opaque. Excellent Lightfastness. High Oil Content. High Tint Power.

This is a powerful, organic, fruity red-orange that has excellent lightfastness (was Orange Lake).

Colour: Michael Harding Italian Brown OchrePigment Index: PY42Semi TransparentLightfastness: ExcellentPrice Series: 2Italian Brown Ochre is an interesting natural earth with the most wonderful transparent under colour. Excellent for both portraits and landscapes.Michael Harding Oil Colours are among the finest oil paints available to artists today. Michael Harding's colours have a high load of top quality pigments, ground in refined cold-pressed linseed oil. They are completely free of fillers, extenders, or driers, resulting in pure, rich, and vibrant colours that are lightfast and buttery.First manufactured in 1982, Michael Harding Artists' Oil Colours are exceptional quality and are made by hand. They are very popular with some of the world's finest artists, including David Hockney, Chris Ofili, and the late Sir Howard Hodgkin.pdf=michaelhardincacc.pdf Michael Harding Oil Colour Chart.

Michael Harding Oil Paints are among the finest oil paints available to artists today. Michael Harding's colours have a high load of top quality pigments, ground in refined cold pressed linseed oil. They are completely free of fillers, extenders or driers, resulting in pure, rich, and vibrant colours that are lightfast and buttery.

First manufactured in 1982, Michael Harding Artists' Oil Paints are of exceptional quality and are made by hand. They are very popular with some of the world's finest artists, including David Hockney, Chris Ofili, and the late Sir Howard Hodgkin. Pale Violet adds vibrancy to any sky and also has a place for still life, room interiors and shadows.

Michael Harding Oil Paints are among the finest oil paints available to artists today. Michael Harding's colours have a high load of top quality pigments, ground in refined cold pressed linseed oil. They are completely free of fillers, extenders or driers, resulting in pure, rich, and vibrant colours that are lightfast and buttery.

First manufactured in 1982, Michael Harding Artists' Oil Paints are of exceptional quality and are made by hand. They are very popular with some of the world's finest artists, including David Hockney, Chris Ofili, and the late Sir Howard Hodgkin. A traditional historic colour, this rich and dark Indigo is excellent for sultry skies or for ways to enhance greys and shadows.

PR 188. Average Drying. Semi-Opaque. Excellent Lightfastness. High Oil Content.

A well-established organic pigment, Naphthol Red HF3S, which can be used transparently or opaquely according to choice. In unmixed state it is a pure and slightly fiery red with high tint power, and a range of yellowy-orange undertones, which become very noticeable in hues, which produce much brighter and warmer pinks than are attainable with the Cadmium Reds. When mixed with Zinc White these can appear almost fluorescent.

PV16. Average Drying. Semi-Opaque. Excellent Lightfastness. Average Oil Content.

Manganese Ammonium Pyrophosphate, a heavy, bold Violet which was first made in Germany in 1868; one of the mid-19th century wave of synthetic inorganic metal salts which so changed the artist.

PY35. Fast Drying. Semi-Opaque. Excellent lightfastness. Low Oil Content.

Cadmium Sulphide, with, as its name suggests, a greeny, tangy, sulphurous edge to it which does not run through mixes with quite the same strength as an Arylide lake. An inorganic pigment which lightens and increases the opacity of warm mixes without overthrowing them. The Cadmium range of pigments was introduced into production 1840-1890, as soon as costs permitted, and has proved the most artistically reliable of all the metal compounds discovered in the 19th century.

PY35. Fast Drying. Opaque. Excellent Lightfastness. Low Oil Content.

A unique shade of Cadmium Sulphide which bridges the yellow/orange frontier with a pigment that seems destined to be mixed with the earths, ochres and mid-reds, and which infuses these with a glow more palpable than that of the organic lake yellows.

PY35. Fast Drying. Opaque. Excellent Lightfastness. Low Oil Content.

A warmer version still of Cadmium Yellow Golden, giving a transitional colour more powerful than those obtained by mixing Cadmium Reds and Cadmium Yellows. Often used to warm the mid-tones and lights of some flesh painting.

PR 149 Average Drying. Transparent. Excellent Lightfastness. High Oil Content. Average Tint Power

This is an organic lake which has to be used thinly, or at least with regard to its very high oil content, which forms a slick surface when dry. A very fast drier, makes a great range of strawberry pinks, but I am presently researching a substitute which will upgrade its lightfastness, particularly when it is dispersed in hues.

Colour: Michael Harding Green GoldPigment Index: PY129TransparentLightfastness: ExcellentPrice Series: 4Green Gold is an unusual, lustrous and honeyed colour which is a delicate balance of several tones: gold, green, and brown.Michael Harding Oil Colours are among the finest oil paints available to artists today. Michael Harding's colours have a high load of top quality pigments, ground in refined cold-pressed linseed oil. They are completely free of fillers, extenders, or driers, resulting in pure, rich, and vibrant colours that are lightfast and buttery.First manufactured in 1982, Michael Harding Artists' Oil Colours are exceptional quality and are made by hand. They are very popular with some of the world's finest artists, including David Hockney, Chris Ofili, and the late Sir Howard Hodgkin.pdf=michaelhardincacc.pdf Michael Harding Oil Colour Chart.

PR108. Fast Drying. Opaque. Excellent Lightfastness. Low Oil Content.

The deepest of the Cadmium range, this red has distinct bluish undertones which become very salient in some very purplish hues.

PB28. Very Fast Drying. Semi-Opaque. Excellent Lightfastness. Average Oil Content.

Introduced at about the same time as Ultramarine, Cobalt Aluminate is a synthetic inorganic spinel (i.e. a very high-fired metal compound). It is a more greenish blue than the latter, with a heavier, more mineral appearance when neat. The hues formed from it are correspondingly heavier and greyer. But it has a certain downright shade which the cheaper Ultramarine cannot quite match. The paint film when dry is quite soft.

PG19. Fast Drying. Semi-Opaque. Excellent Lightfastness. Low Oil Content.

A heavy, dense blue-green, with low tint power, introduced, with so many inorganic metallic pigments, 1830-40. It is a compound of Cobalt and Zinc Oxides, with grey-blue undertones which do not overturn mixes and form interesting effects when combined with the Yellow Lakes.

Colour: Michael Harding ViridianPigment Index: PG18Semi OpaqueLightfastness: ExcellentPrice Series: 5Landscapists and some portraitists still prefer this colour to the strong power of the Phthalo Greens. An interesting range of blue-greys are produced when combined with reds.Michael Harding Oil Colours are among the finest oil paints available to artists today. The colours have a high load of top quality pigments, ground in refined cold-pressed linseed oil. They are completely free of fillers, extenders, or driers, resulting in pure, rich, and vibrant colours that are lightfast and buttery.First manufactured in 1982, Michael Harding Artists' Oil Colours are exceptional quality and are made by hand. They are very popular with some of the world's finest artists, including David Hockney, Chris Ofili, and the late Sir Howard Hodgkin.pdf=michaelhardincacc.pdf Michael Harding Oil Colour Chart.

PV14. Fast Drying. Semi-Opaque. Excellent Lightfastness. Average Oil Content.

First made from the rare ore of Cobalt Phosphate in the mid-19th century, this is now a synthetic inorganic pigment, of which the lighter shade is closer to the original, natural version. It has a very delicate shade of violet which appears quite opaque in mass-tone, but which quickly becomes transparent when applied thinly, and when glazed over a white ground, gives a very interesting range of bluish pinks. The hues are equally restrained.

PV14. Fast Drying. Semi-Opaque. Excellent Lightfastness. Average Oil Content.

This shade of Cobalt Phosphate was only obtainable when the natural ore was superseded by more refined processes of manufacture. It has a heavier, richer appearance than its lighter counterpart, but its comparatively weak tint power means that it will not unduly push mixes towards a deeper bluish result. Interesting effects when glazed over with yellow lake colours.

PB36. Average Drying. Opaque. Excellent Lightfastness. Low Oil Content.

PB29, Average Drying, Semi Transparant, Low Oil Content, Average Tint Power, Non-Toxic There are a few special pigment colours in the range; an example is a genuine Afghan lapis lazuli. The first and most noticeable thing about the lapis lazuli compared to the modern synthetic equivalent ultramarine blue, is the considerably less tinting and covering power and its slightly dirtier colour, though neither of these traits should be seen to detract from the natural beauty.

Colour Information:PW6/PW4, Series 1, Opaque, Lightfastness +++Rembrandt Oil Colours have an intense luminosity and depth due to the very fine grinding process, along with the highest possible concentration of pigments. Colours have the maximum degree of lightfastness and durability throughout the range.The range of Rembrandt oil paint consists of 120 colours with a balanced distribution between opaque and transparent colours. It also includes some specialised colours such as genuine cadmiums and shiny metallics. Each colour has a smooth, buttery texture and a rich intensity. Tubes are available in 40ml, 60ml, and 150ml.