Distinctive Work Begins with Materials of Distinction
Distinctive Work begins with Materials of Distinction.
What makes Rublev Colours Artist Oils distinct from all others? Their unique range of natural and historical colors made without additives. They give you new ways to explore color in your work.
Rublev Colours Artist Oils are unlike any other brand of oil paints today. Why are Rublev Colours different from other manufactured oil paints? One reason is that we use genuine natural and historical pigments like those used by the old masters. Most of these pigments are not found in other brands. Another reason is that we make Rublev Colours Artist Oils as they did before modern tube colors—without additives. Rublev Colours Artist Oils contain only pigment and oil. They are formulated to maintain the unique characteristics of each pigment in oil. The character found in each tube of our oil colors is unique due to the pigment inside, giving the artist new choices of texture, opacity, consistency, tone and hue. With Rublev Colours you experience the transparency of yellow ocher, the pale coolness of green earths, and the crystalline glitter of blue lazurite.
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What are the Best Supports for Oil Painting?
What could be more distinct than lead-oil primed canvas or lead-oil priming on aluminum composite (ACM) panels? These panels offer the most stable support available. Distinctive art, like Relic by Teresa Oaxaca, is painted with Rublev Colours Artist Oils on Artefex ACM Panels.
Most discussions about painting supports focus on canvas, while others on rigid supports, primarily wooden panels. These two categories have been the traditional supports for hundreds of years. A growing trend is modern alternatives, such as rigid composite supports. What is interesting is that nearly all the discussions focus only on the surface properties rather than mechanical properties of these supports.
The mechanical properties of painting supports are as important, if not more, than their surface qualities. The former properties are rarely considered by artists. This is surprising because for at least 40 years the greatest causes of paint failures, cracking and paint loss, have been attributed by conservators to the stress on paint film resulting from the expansion and contraction of the support due to changes in relative humidity and temperature.
The best supports are those with the lowest response to environmental changes
Without question canvas is the most popular support for painting today. Its popularity notwithstanding, it is also the worse support for painting in terms of its mechanical properties. Canvas is hygroscopic, meaning that as humidity in the air changes, canvas absorbs and releases moisture to maintain equilibrium with these changes. Canvas swells and contracts at much different rates than paint layers, producing mechanical stress on paint as the environment changes. Although these changes may appear to be small, over time they place enough stress on paint that leads to cracking, cupping and paint loss.
Artefex Panel Selection ChartPaintings on rigid supports (wood, stone, metal, etc.) with lower response to environmental changes, such as relative humidity, typically exhibit less cracking and paint loss over much longer periods of time, because the support does not induce as much stress on the paint film as does canvas. Wood has long been used as a rigid support for painting, but its use does not entirely avoid the issues suffered by paintings on flexible canvas supports. Aluminum composite panels, on the other hand, are not affected by relative humidity, so they do not create stress on paint layers.
Artefex Panels offer superior supports for your art
Artefex Panels are lightweight but rigid and durable aluminum composite material (ACM)—two strong sheets of aluminum bonded to a solid polyethylene core. The panel is coated on one side with a white polyester coil coating and a mill (polished aluminum) finish on the other side. The panels are available in common sizes up to 20x24 inches. This weather-resistant panel is ideal for a wide range of paint mediums and mounting applications.
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