Virgil Elliott

As a realist painter of long-standing, I’m very happy to now be able to add Mars Brown, Transparent Red Iron Oxide, Transparent Yellow Iron Oxide, and Chromium Oxide Green from Rublev Colours to my Number One Paintbox and my palette. My preference is for oil paints with no stabilizers in them, just linseed oil and pigment, and I know of no other brand that meets those criteria. As Natural Pigments adds more of the colors I need to their Rublev Colours line of oil paints, I will retire those colors I have from other brands and replace them with Rublev Colours...

Painters interested in Old Master effects benefit from a good understanding of the differences between modern tube oil paints and those used by the Old Masters whose works they admire. Too often, this critical issue is overlooked, and the focus tends to be disproportionately on mediums and additives, while the paints generally receive too little attention. There are significant differences to be acknowledged between modern and oil paints in use in the 17th century and earlier...