Williamsburg Handmade Oil Colors

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Williamsburg Handmade Oil Colors

Handmade professional quality oil paints and mediums for the discerning artist. Williamsburg grinds each colour to enhance the beauty and luminosity specific to that particular pigment.

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From The Collection by Opus New Berlin, NY, United States · Est. Mid-1980s Read the story

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The story behind Williamsburg Handmade Oil Colors

Handmade oils ground pigment by pigment, the way a painter would.

Painter Carl Plansky began making oil paint in the Williamsburg neighbourhood of Brooklyn in the mid-1980s. Instead of standardising every colour, he ground each pigment to bring out its own beauty and luminosity.

Since 2010 the paints have been handmade by Golden Artist Colors in New Berlin, New York, keeping Carl's recipes and approach alive.

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Notice how each colour handles differently, some buttery and some stiff. That is the pigment showing through. Use the Williamsburg mixer to plan exact mixes.

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