We are happy to introduce the new Michael Harding Starter Set, available at a vastly discounted price. These starter packs give artists the opportunity to try a selection of Michael Harding colours. They are also an ideal gift! The Starter Set contains 6 colours in 40ml tubes: 102 - Titanium White No.2 113 - Ultramarine Blue 205 - Scarlet Lake 110 - Yellow Lake 118 - Yellow Ochre Deep 126 - Burnt Umber

PB29 Fast Drying. Transparent. Excellent Lightfastness. Average Oil Content. An obviously beautiful mid blue.

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.

Series number: 2

Chemical Description: Complex sodium alumino-silicate containing sulphur

Colour index name: PB29

Colour index number: 77007

Permanence rating: A(iii)

ASTM Lightfastness Rating: I

Transparency/Opacity: T





Every Winsor & Newton Artists' Oil Colour is individually formulated to enhance each pigment's natural characteristics and ensure stability of colour. By exercising maximum quality control throughout all stages of manufacture, selecting the most suitable drying oils and method of pigment dispersion, the unique individual properties of each colour are preserved.

Combined with over 170 years of manufacturing and quality control expertise, the formulation of Artist's Oil Colour ensures the best raw materials are made into the world's finest colours.

Artists' Oil Colour uses the highest level of pigmentation consistent with the broadest handling properties. The quantity of pigment used provides covering power and tinting strength.

Color number/code: 644

Series number: 1

Chemical Description: Titanium dioxide, Zinc oxide

Color index name: PW6, PW4

Color index number: 77891, 77947

Permanence rating: AA

ASTM Lightfastness Rating: I







Every Winsor & Newton Artists' Oil Colour is individually formulated to enhance each pigment's natural characteristics and ensure stability of colour. By exercising maximum quality control throughout all stages of manufacture, selecting the most suitable drying oils and method of pigment dispersion, the unique individual properties of each colour are preserved.

Combined with over 170 years of manufacturing and quality control expertise, the formulation of Artist's Oil Colour ensures the best raw materials are made into the world's finest colours.

Artists' Oil Colour uses the highest level of pigmentation consistent with the broadest handling properties. The quantity of pigment used provides covering power and tinting strength.







Transparency/Opacity: O

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.

Series number: 1

Chemical Description: Calcined natural iron oxide

Colour index name: PBr7

Colour index number: 77491

Permanence rating: AA

ASTM Lightfastness Rating: I

Transparency/Opacity: O

A high level of pigmentation provides good covering power and tinting strength. While it can't match the superior pigment load of Artists' Oil Colour, the Winton range is much stronger than many other artists' quality ranges.The economical cost has been achieved through the use of moderately priced pigments rather than lessening the pigment content to an unacceptable level. Winsor & Newton formulation, manufacture and quality control ensure a product of absolute excellence. The Winton range has a more uniform consistency than Artists' Oil Colour and is slightly stiffer. It offers excellent retention of brush and palette knife strokes.

Pigment classification : Synthetic ultramarine

Colour index : PB29

Colour index number :77007

Lightfastness : Lightfast pigment according to ASTM category 1 and 2

Opacity/transparency : Semi-transparent

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.

Series number: 1

Chemical Description: Zinc oxide, Titanium dioxide

Colour index name: PW4, PW6

Colour index number: 77947, 77891

Permanence rating: AA

ASTM Lightfastness Rating: I

Transparency/Opacity: O

A high level of pigmentation provides good covering power and tinting strength. While it can't match the superior pigment load of Artists' Oil Colour, the Winton range is much stronger than many other artists' quality ranges.The economical cost has been achieved through the use of moderately priced pigments rather than lessening the pigment content to an unacceptable level. Winsor & Newton formulation, manufacture and quality control ensure a product of absolute excellence. The Winton range has a more uniform consistency than Artists' Oil Colour and is slightly stiffer. It offers excellent retention of brush and palette knife strokes.

Series number: 4

Chemical Description: Cobalt aluminate

Colour index name: PB28

Colour index number: 77346

Permanence rating: AA

ASTM Lightfastness Rating: I

Transparency/Opacity: ST





Every Winsor & Newton Artists' Oil Colour is individually formulated to enhance each pigment's natural characteristics and ensure stability of colour. By exercising maximum quality control throughout all stages of manufacture, selecting the most suitable drying oils and method of pigment dispersion, the unique individual properties of each colour are preserved.

Combined with over 170 years of manufacturing and quality control expertise, the formulation of Artist's Oil Colour ensures the best raw materials are made into the world's finest colours.

Artists' Oil Colour uses the highest level of pigmentation consistent with the broadest handling properties. The quantity of pigment used provides covering power and tinting strength.

Series number: 1

Chemical Description: Titanium dioxide

Colour index name: PW6

Colour index number: 77891

Permanence rating: AA

ASTM Lightfastness Rating: I

Transparency/Opacity: O

As with all Winsor & Newton colours, every colour in the range is individually formulated to take advantage of the natural characteristics of each pigment and to ensure the stability of the colour. The vehicle (oil modified alkyd resin) allows the colour to dry quicker whilst retaining the other characteristics of conventional oil colour.Because alkyd resin has physical properties that differ slightly from those of traditional oils, the pigment load is somewhat different as well. Experienced painters will notice slightly greater transparency compared to Artists' Oil Colour. The colour has been formulated to offer the greatest degree of tinting strength possible (consistent with good handling properties), and to take full advantage of the true characteristics of each pigment.

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.

Terre Verte

PG23. Fast Drying. Transparent. Excellent Drying. Average Oil Content. Green Earth, a complex of Ferrous Silicates in Aluminium and Magnesium clays, is one of the few naturally-occurring inorganic pigments still to be offered by colourmen. It has a very soft texture with very low tint power, beloved of portraitists who use it as a glaze over Alizarin Crimson hues. Some makers add other pigments in order to give it a spuriously enhanced tint power which annuls these qualities.

PB29 Fast Drying. Transparent. Excellent Lightfastness. Average Oil Content. An obviously beautiful mid blue.

PBr 7. Very Fast Drying. Transparent. Excellent Lightfastness. Average Oil Content.

A version of Burnt Umber which has heavier and more greenish undertones than the Red variant. This is the colour in its presentation of the last two centuries, invaluable for underpainting and showing a range of sandy pinks in hues.

PBr 7.Very Fast Drying. Transparent. Excellent Lightfastness. Average Oil Content.

One of the fundamental Earths used as an Imprimitura pigment to draught out compositions on a Raw Sienna ground, as many Rubens sketches evidence. Depending on the degree of transparency, it can exhibit red or greenish undertones.

There is no water within the formulation of Artisan. The linseed oil and safflower oil vehicles have been modified to allow the colour to accept water, creating a stable emulsion, while retaining the working characteristics of conventional oil colour.Artisan is ideal for:-

Oil painters who are sensitive to, or simply want to avoid exposure to solvents such as white spirit (mineral spirits) or turpentine.

Students and teachers in schools and colleges where the use of oil colour is prohibited because of the solvents.

Artists working in shared studio space where the build up of solvent levels could lead to a harmful concentration of vapours and a generally an unpleasant odour.

Artists who work within a small home environment and wish to reduce the odour of oil painting.

For travel, all Artisan products (Colour & Mediums) can be transported on aeroplanes (subject to the agreement of the airline).

The range has also been formulated with a high proportion of single pigments for brilliance of colour and clean colour mixing. The most suitable oil and methods for dispersion have been selected to bring out the individual characteristics, from opacity to natural transparency, of each pigment in the Artisan range.

In 1985, following extensive research, Old Holland presented a revolutionary range of 168 oil paints, each with 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 of 168 colours, 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, to obtain an optimum oxidisation (drying) of the paint. This increases durability and brushstroke spread. Together, these characteristics result in an oil paint of unequalled quality.

PBR 7. Quick drying, ground in linseed oil.Italian Green Umber is a deep, earthy green that is both warm and semi-transparent. This product is the dream of the plein air painter as it is perfect for capturing the rich, natural greens in any landscape.

PBr 7.Very Fast Drying. Transparent. Excellent Lightfastness. Average Oil Content.

One of the fundamental Earths used as an Imprimitura pigment to draught out compositions on a Raw Sienna ground, as many Rubens sketches evidence. Depending on the degree of transparency, it can exhibit red or greenish undertones.

Series number: 1

Chemical Description: Calcined natural earth

Colour index name: PBr7

Colour index number: 77491

Permanence rating: AA

ASTM Lightfastness Rating: I

Transparency/Opacity: T







Every Winsor & Newton Artists' Oil Colour is individually formulated to enhance each pigment's natural characteristics and ensure stability of colour. By exercising maximum quality control throughout all stages of manufacture, selecting the most suitable drying oils and method of pigment dispersion, the unique individual properties of each colour are preserved.

Combined with over 170 years of manufacturing and quality control expertise, the formulation of Artist's Oil Colour ensures the best raw materials are made into the world's finest colours.

Artists' Oil Colour uses the highest level of pigmentation consistent with the broadest handling properties. The quantity of pigment used provides covering power and tinting strength.

PW6.1. Fast Drying. Opaque. Excellent Lightfastness. Low Oil Content.

Before Titanium Dioxide is refined to make it white it contains a measure of Iron Oxide, which gives it a subtle linen or limewash pinky-brown shade. As well as making it a good drier, such a presence makes this paint an ideal ground or underpainting colour, with good texture and a lean surface. Some painters use it as a mixing agent in flesh painting.

PR 83. Slow Drying. Transparent. Good Lightfastness. High Oil Content. The oldest synthetic organic lake, introduced in 1868, and the only one of the coal-tar lake range to have survived in use until the present, the others having been found to be too impermanent for artistic use before the end of the 19th century. Itself a replacement for the somewhat unreliable organic Natural Madder (a dye made from a crushed plant root), Alizarin is frowned upon by certain Americans because its lightfastness (II-III on the ASTM scale), does not match that attained in the more recent organic pigments. But its clarity and subtly beautiful bluish undertones are unique, and, since its introduction, portraitists have greatly prized its range of cool, rather smoky hues, so well suited for rendering facial flesh.

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.