What are people's thoughts on the quality of other brand paints like Windsor Newton or Gamblin? I'm thinking specifically of thick paints for painting mountains.
I use Windsor & Newton and VanGogh, very happy with the (thick) quality! The only more or less soft paint in a tube is cad yellow (W&N), but has to do with the pigments quantity.
Winsor and newton all the way for me, i just ordered a whole lotta W&N artisan water mixables, can't wait to try them out
Winsor and Newton ( Artisitc,, Artisan and Winton), Daler and Rowney Artisitc, Gamblin and Master-Class from Russian manufacturer Nevskaya Palitra. They all mix well with each other and I do not see problems there.
Can those of you who have used a number of different types of paint give some detail on the specific lines of paints you've used (i.e., both brand and student/artist/alkyd/water mixable/ etc.) and what the consistency has been like across different colors within that line? I keep browsing paint online and rarely see specifics on how thick / thin / soft / firm etc. they are as a whole.
ironchef8000 W&N Artisan watermixable was the thickest. But I think it is just simply because it started to dry out.
I only care about cadmium yellow consistency as this is expensive pigment and I want to have more pigment than oil. Less saturated with pigment is Russian brand. Cost is only 10 dollars for 46 ml. It is like soft butter. Next is daler and rowney. It has more pigment in it. Same consistency approximately. W&N Artists is the best to me a bit thicker.
I would agree, the watermixable oils I've tested are the thickest. I'm a Gamblin fanboy lately 🙂 but I have a wide selection of WN and have been very happy with their performance. To be honest, I bought some BR paint and it was not what I expected. I would compare it to some of the student grade paints I've tried. They seemed to separate in the tubes more than others I have. The white didn't really work any better ( or worse) than my NW or Gamblin whites. The one that is different is Gamblin radiant white which is a very soft and creamy white which I love for adding snow to trees and highlights.. much better than using liquid white or thinned out Ti white. I would also warn that BR's colors are not exactly what other manufacturers have. The sap green is different than WN or Gamblin as is Phalo blue. BR Sap is a bit more green where the others tend to yellow/green and the blue is more opaque than either Gamblin or NW. None of this really matters in the end.. I'm trained as an engineer so I tend to see things like that by habit. I did color swatches with all the paints I use to better "know" them. It was a bit surprising.
Thanks everyone!