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Transparent Oxides
Brown shades are an important part of painting. If you look at art history, it is evident that we once started painting using soil as pigments. You could say that browns are our basis, our roots. The transparent oxide shades in our collection may seem like ordinary browns, but nothing could be further from the truth.
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Whites
Rembrandt offers a wide range of white oil paints, each with different properties and applications. But which of these whites is best suited for your artwork? That depends on what properties you are looking for. This video demonstrates the whites in the Rembrandt oil paint collection. To showcase each shade’s properties, they were mixed with 281 Transparent Yellow Green.
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Tonal Greys
While greys may seem a bit boring, once you experience their qualities, they become indispensable to your colour palette. Grey is neither black nor white. It darkens with black and brightens with white. This might seem confusing, but this combination allows these grey shades to perfectly neutralise various colours.
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Cadmiums and alternatives
Cadmium shades are intense, highly pigmented and truly opaque oil colours. They feature high tinting strength, achieving maximum results with only small amounts. Then why do we also offer so-called permanent colours as cadmium alternatives? Find out in this blog and watch the video to see the demonstration of their differences.
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Red shades
Red pigments are the most widely available pigments by far. Each of these red pigments has its own unique properties. The entire range of Rembrandt oil paints offers the highest degree of lightfastness, so all colours have the same excellent lightfastness. Other properties such as opacity, lightfastness, colour temperature, undertone and tinting strength, however, can differ immensely between seemingly similar shades of red.
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Blue shades
There are many shades of blue in the Rembrandt oil colour collection that may look similar at first glance, but each have their own unique characteristics. Each blue has its own undertone which can lean either towards green or towards red, also called ‘green shaded’ or ‘red shaded’ respectively. This undertone also determines the colour temperature of the shade: shades with red undertones are warm blues, while green undertones create cold blues.
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Green shades
Green is the colour that is most distinguishable for us humans. Our eyes are more sensitive to green than any other colour. Remarkably enough, there are only a few green pigments on the market. This does not mean there is not a huge variety of green paints, however. Quite the contrary: there are opaque and transparent greens, yellowish greens, blue greens and even black greens. All these different shades allow you to achieve various effects in your paintings.
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Violet shades
Violets are often found in landscapes in the form of flowers and other plants, but when you look at impressionists’ works, you can find hints of violet hidden in snow, for example. Van Gogh loved using violets in skies and even faces. Aside from being a useful colour for various artworks, violet is also a colour with deep meaning. It is the colour that represents the pope, wealth and spirituality, though it can also be the colour of mourning and loss. Violet may seem like a simple colour, but nothing could be further from the truth.
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