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<div>Digressing to oil paints for a moment and over the last 12 months or so I have been using Michael Harding oils, I just love the way they mix and the vibrancy of the colours. Just placed an order with Jackson's yesterday to top a few of them up and did happen to notice that there were a small range of MH colours available at Jackson's discounted price of £650 or thereabouts, beat that if you can...</div>
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Alan, even if you don't normally use Cobalt Blue (and I don't know if you do) get yourself a tube of Michael Harding's - it's fabulous, so much clearer and cleaner than any other Cobalt oil paint I've used before.
The fiendishly expensive ones include a (very toxic) Chinese Vermilion - I'd love to try it, although I'd have little use for it normally, but the price made me come over all peculiar and grab at something solid for support. But then there have always been super-expensive pigments in the history of oil painting - before a brilliant French chemist synthesized it, Ultramarine was one of them, as I'm sure everybody knows. The reason the Blessed Virgin Mary was almost invariably shown with an ultramarine robe was due to the extreme cost of the lapiz lazuli pigment - pricier than gold leaf at the time, I believe. So we don't really suffer so much these days - good paint has always been expensive (and buyers need to be told!).
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