“I envision artists using these colours to create vibrant, contemporary portraits.” - Alpay Efe

Rembrandt x Alpay Efe

The Modern Portrait Set

10 x 15 ml oil paint set

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Rembrandt Introduction

With over 120 years of experience, knowledge and expertise, Rembrandt is Royal Talens’ oldest brand: a distinctive, high-quality and indispensable brand for the professional artist. This brand manual describes what we want artists to think and feel about the Rembrandt brand. It provides focus and should be central in any briefing. Especially in the complex world of today, we feel it is necessary to create a concise, consistent and powerful brand. The better we collectively understand what the Rembrandt brand stands for and are true to it, the more effectively we can guide the brand into the future.

History

Thanks to the enthusiasm, perfectionism and passion of Marten Talens, a distinctive and high-quality brand called Rembrandt first saw the light of day in 1899. In the following decades, Rembrandt developed into one of the world’s most renowned brands in oil colours, soft pastels, acrylic and watercolour paints for the professional artist. Based on the tradition of the old Dutch masters, the emphasis of the brand is mostly on the extensive range of intense colours, excellent lightfastness and high-quality pigments. Rembrandt: a legendary name for a range that is known for its superior and unparalleled quality.

Inspired by the production practices of the Dutch masters of the 17th century, the brand is driven to create the brightest, most intense colours, in line with today’s requirements and techniques. The brand has been developed through pure craftsmanship and artistic insight, based on the best raw materials. As a result, Rembrandt products have unique properties, including exceptionally high fineness, lightfastness and longevity.

Characteristics of Rembrandt are the extensive range of colours, as well as a consistent viscosity and uniform drying time. The brand owes its 120+ years of proven quality to experience, craftsmanship, expertise and a close cooperation with professional artists. Each colour is made according to a unique, tried and tested recipe. The necessary raw materials for each new batch undergo stringent quality control in our own laboratory.

Today, Rembrandt supplies oil, acrylic and watercolour paints, pastels, brushes and paper to over 100 countries and thousands of artists all over the world. Rembrandt, the choice for the professional artist.

Rembrandt Mono-pigmented colours

The colour is the most important ingredient of your painting. That is why we keep our oil paints as pure as possible. Of the 120 colours in the Rembrandt oil paint range, 57 are mono-pigmented. These colours allow you to create vibrant mixtures without losing intensity or saturation. Since they are so pure, the colours also offer you more predictable results when mixing, maintaining a more saturated mix and avoiding
muddy colours.

Experience brighter and more brilliant paintings with these premium
shades. The secret behind our mono-pigmented colours is actually quite simple: each colour contains only one high-quality pigment.

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The Rembrandt oil colour range consists of 120 colours with a well-balanced distribution across various colour areas and a good balance between opaque and transparent colours.

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Red shades
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White shades
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Blue shades
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