PY40. Average Drying. Transparent. Excellent Lightfastness. Average Oil Content. A transparent straw-ochre yellow with strange yet rich greenish undertones.

Colour: Michael Harding Transparent Oxide BrownPigment Index: PR101Semi OpaqueLightfastness: ExcellentPrice Series: 2This is a fantastic colour with a small pigment particle size, giving it a great clean transparency that is ideal for glazing.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.

PB15.3 Fast Drying. Transparent. Excellent Lightfastness. High Oil Content.

A Chlorinated Copper invented in 1935, this was one of the first synthetic organic pigments to be accepted as reliably permanent. It is sometimes seen as a modern replacement for Prussian blue, but its unmixed colour is slightly more cyan, and in hues it exhibits a unique range of throbbing, intense, greenish blues which are quite distinct from the latter. Having the most powerful tint power of any colour in my range, this paint will blow any mix apart; if you wish to avoid doing so, add it in tiny quantities and with caution! Its ferrous content makes it a great drier, and like Prussian Blue it shows a tendency to bronze on drying.

PY42. Very Fast Drying. Opaque. Excellent Lightfastness. Average Oil Content.

A higher-keyed and more greeny-gold shade of manufactured Iron Oxide. It hues well to yield mustardy yellows quite close to Genuine Naples Yellow Dark.

PBk 9. Average Drying. Semi-Opaque. Excellent Lightfastness. High oil Content.

An impure amorphous Carbon in Calcium Phosphate, Ivory Black is no longer made from burning ivory scraps, but from charred animal bones. It is denser in shade and cooler than Lamp Black with stronger tint power. The most frequently used black in the range.

PB27. Very Fast Drying. Transparent. Very Good Lightfastness. High Oil Content. Ferri-ammonium Ferrocyanide, discovered in Berlin in 1704 and introduced through the early 18th century, was one of the first synthetic inorganic pigments and also one of the most controversial. The earlier and less purified versions had a mixed reputation; they were said to fade in hues, or even to migrate or leech through succeeding paint layers. But modern standards of washing have dispensed with the tendency to fade, and the migratory properties ascribed to this colour are no longer reported. At any rate, Prussian Blue, like Alizarin, is one of those colours some painters find essential. Its inky depth when unmixed is belied by a range of uniquely intense blues resulting from hues, particularly with Zinc White. On its own and in more concentrated mixes it exhibits a slight bronzy sheen which can be used almost like a complementary glaze.

Colour: Michael Harding Warm White (Lead White Alternative)Pigment Index: PY42 PW6OpaqueLightfastness: ExcellentPrice Series: 1This warm and opaque white is excellent for artists who want a lead like paint. Great mixing colour. 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.

PW6& PW4. Average Drying. Very Opaque. Lightfastness Excellent. Very Low Oil Content. High tintpower. Non-toxic

This paint is bound with Linseed Oil and contains a 25% addition of Zinc Oxide White in order to avert the tendency of pure Titanium Dioxide pigment to express or exude oil to the surface whilst drying, which then causes a more pronounced appearance of yellowing. Zinc Oxide incorporates this free oil more effectively, as well as adding a cooler brightness to the white. If you want a strong mixer which tends to lighten hues conspicuously, as well as making the Cadmiums rather chalky in appearance, then this is it. The handling qualities are not overly subtle, but this is the white most suitable for a bright and largely cool palette. It forms a strong film when dry.

PY74. Slow Drying. Transparent. Very Good Lightfastness. High Oil Content.

One of the oldest established organic lakes, Arylide Yellow G, this is a warmer version of Bright Yellow Lake, with similar properties. Deceptively transparent but with strong tint power, it runs through mixes with a milder and more golden range of undertones.

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).

PY42. Very Fast Drying. Opaque. Excellent Lightfastness. Average Oil Content.

A higher-keyed and more greeny-gold shade of manufactured Iron Oxide. It hues well to yield mustardy yellows quite close to Genuine Naples Yellow Dark.

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.

PR 108. Fast Drying. Opaque. Excellent Lightfastness. Low Oil Content.

A cooler, plummier red in the Cadmium range which yields maroon hues and which can be used to make heavy, greenish blacks when added to the Phthalocyanine Green Lakes, to which it is approximately complimentary.

PO 20. Fast Drying. Opaque. Excellent Lightfastness. Low Oil Content.

A strong, in-your-face deep orange that has high tint power and opacity, yielding surprisingly pinky hues in mixes with Titanium Whites.

PG36. Fast Drying. Transparent. Excellent Lightfastness. High Oil Content.

A variant of the Phthalo Green compound with a greater range of gingery yellow undertones which are immediately apparent in hues. This is due to increased numbers of Chlorine and Bromine atoms. The tint power is less than that of straight Phthalo Green but the range of clean, beautiful, pine greens obtainable from it is quite unique.

'My paints are made by hand, using techniques which date back to the days of the Old Masters. There is a very simple reason for this painstaking process. As an artist and painter I wanted to create colours that were true and vibrant, and paint which was beautiful and durable.'

PG36. Fast Drying. Transparent. Excellent Lightfastness. High Oil Content.

A variant of the Phthalo Green compound with a greater range of gingery yellow undertones which are immediately apparent in hues. This is due to increased numbers of Chlorine and Bromine atoms. The tint power is less than that of straight Phthalo Green but the range of clean, beautiful, pine greens obtainable from it is quite unique.

PR 108. Fast Drying. Opaque. Excellent Lightfastness. Low Oil content.

A crisp, zingy red with the usual Cadmium characteristics, high tint power and opacity, and which can present warm, almost fiery hues when mixed with a more transparent White, such as Zinc.

PY74. Slow Drying. Transparent. Very Good Lightfastness. High Oil Content.

One of the oldest established organic lakes, Arylide Yellow G, this is a warmer version of Bright Yellow Lake, with similar properties. Deceptively transparent but with strong tint power, it runs through mixes with a milder and more golden range of undertones.

PB27. Very Fast Drying. Transparent. Very Good Lightfastness. High Oil Content.

Ferri-ammonium Ferrocyanide, discovered in Berlin in 1704 and introduced through the early 18th century, was one of the first synthetic inorganic pigments and also one of the most controversial. The earlier and less purified versions had a mixed reputation; they were said to fade in hues, or even to migrate or leech through succeeding paint layers. But modern standards of washing have dispensed with the tendency to fade, and the migratory properties ascribed to this colour are no longer reported. At any rate, Prussian Blue, like Alizarin, is one of those colours some painters find essential. Its inky depth when unmixed is belied by a range of uniquely intense blues resulting from hues, particularly with Zinc White. On its own and in more concentrated mixes it exhibits a slight bronzy sheen which can be used almost like a complementary glaze.

PB29 & PW4 & PW6. Average Drying. Opaque. Excellent Lightfastness. Low Oil Content.

This name was given by English manufacturers to Smalt, a Cobalt based pigment which was used in the 16th-17th centuries as a cheaper alternative to Lapis Lazuli. Unfortunately Smalt was very prone to fade into a light grey, as some Veronese skies demonstrate. But the introduction of Ultramarine made it obsolete, and so it can offer a completely reliable substitute blend which evokes the aerial effects of the great Venetian decorators.

Safflower oil is a pale, slow-drying oil which can be used to brighten and thin oil paints. As it is a paler yellow than linseed oil, paler pigments (whites and pale blues especially) maintain their brightness when mixed with safflower oil.Paints thinned with this product should not be used under faster drying layers, e.g. Fast Drying Medium, earth colours etc.

PG17. Average Drying. Opaque. Excellent Lightfastness. Low Oil Content.

Another mid-19th century metallic oxide, with covering power but not much tinting strength. It is a heavy, vegetable green which can be surprisingly enlivened by adding yellows. Landscapists find that its range in mixes and hues makes it a staple green. It acts very well as a complementary to active red hues.

Colour: Michael Harding Warm Light YellowPigment Index: PY44 PW6OpaqueLightfastness: ExcellentPrice Series: 2This soft colour is perfect for mixing colours, using in portraits landscapes and non-figurative works.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.

PR 101. Very Fast Drying. Semi-Opaque. Excellent Lightfastness. Average Oil content.

Formerly a natural Iron Oxide, this is now manufactured to greater standards of purity. A heavy red, which yields fruity fleshy hues, and makes tones of great sonority when mixed with the Yellow Lakes.