Bob Ross oil paint

joha59

Some weeks ago I ordered a Bob Ross landscape basic set. I used Winsor en Newton oil paint, but the paint of Bob Ross should be more firm and dry. The first set I returned, One tube was leaking and the white was very thin. After receiving a new set, I started using the white, With a paperclip I tried to mix the paint with the oil inside the tube. The cad yellow I mixed three time, still is some oil coming out of the tube. So my experience is: the piant of Bob Ross is not firm and dry at all, It seems more like dredge. What are your experiences with the oil paint of the brand Bob Ross? Thanks for responding. Oh, I ordered by "De Kwast", a shop in Den Bosch, Netherlands.

Ian_Adkins

General consensus is BRI's been cheaping out with their supplier for some time. Probably since about July, 1995...

wybnormal

Late to the party but here are my observations. The current BR paint is supposedly made by Golden and better quality than what has been available for the last 10 years or so. The "new" stuff I bought last year was junk. My Blick student oils worked better. But I have settled on Winsor and Gamblin up very recently when I tired Rembrandt and love the texture of the paint. Now, I do own some vintage BR paint I bought from estate sales and that is very different than the BR paint from 2 years ago. Much stiffer and matches to what Bob says in his shows as to how it should be behaving. Is that a better a paint or just old paint? No idea. I would not use Rembrandt for BR style until you get very comfortable with it. The paint is very soft and creamy. Blick's house brand works pretty well across the board and is relatively cheap. I like the colors better with Winsor and Gamblin and they are reasonably stiff and work well with some care.

But it's understood that paint is a very personal thing. What one likes is not always what someone else likes to use for any number of reasons.

DaveJ

My 14 x 200ml tubes are all Daler/Rowney supplied, & produce a lot of oil at the cap end when stored on their side or cap end up. So to minimise the problem, I store them with cap end down as much as possible; even during a painting session. The oil seems to be lighter and so rises to the top; with the thicker paint settling to the bottom - so better that the thicker paint settles at the cap end. I squeeze the paint onto a paper towel before putting it onto the palette in case to soak up any oil that dares defy my logic. Leaves most of the problem for a future Dave to deal with.

Mgiese84

My 200ml tubes are all the Bob Ross brand. I've probably bought 20 tubes so far and maybe 2-3 had a little excess oil. On those tubes I just turned them upside down and gave it a gentle squeeze to let all the oil I possibly could drain from the tubes. Then they were good to go. But the other 18 tubes were very firm. Actually some were so firm that you really need to squeeze the tubes to get the paint out.

joha59

I bought recently some new tubes of paint of the BR brand in another shop: ruan creative (https://www.ruan.nl/), as far as I know the only shop in Holland with Bob Ross paint in storage. Because white is most used, I bought a 200ml tube and also cad yellow to compare with the one in the basic landscape set. According the woman in the shop it is quite normal some oil is leaving the tube after opening, she advises to put the paint on a seperate place to mix it with the oil and always store the tubes with opening below, so the oil can travel to the top. The cad yellow of the brand BR is normally a little bit thinner than other colours, because this color is used mostly as highlight color. Bought also black and brown, specially the brown paint is thick and dry, as I expected all BR colors should be. Thanks to all for your reply, and still reading your remarks concerns the status of BR paint.