Vasari Paint

[Mrx Wylie]

Vasari Lime Paint is made from natural limestone and powdered marble, which enables it to take on the same properties of our plasters. It can be brushed, rolled, or sprayed just like conventional paint but is much more versatile. A medium texture can be achieved with a brush, or it can be troweled smooth, left matte or burnished to a medium sheen.
Create a gorgeous Lime Wash by simply diluting Vasari Lime Paint with water.

Lime plasters and paints have been used since 8,000BC. These finishes have garnished the walls of palaces, museums and tombs. Vasari brings the same authentic formulas to your door anywhere in the world. Our materials are easy to apply, easy to maintain and easy to love.

Vasari paints are expensive, but they run sales (20% off) on a different color category each month. If you stock up on colors when they are on sale, they are only a little bit more expensive than Harding.

DECO CEMENTO is a ready-to-use lime based plaster formulated to give strength, high adhesion and durability. It offers a natural texture with medium variations that is like microcement. It can be used on floors, walls or showers to achieve seamless design.

The collaboration of Vasari x Cebos Color gives way to an exciting modern travertine effect. The lime-based travertine effect is the combination of modern-day metallic paint by Cebos Color, and the travertine plaster effect with Vasari Marmorino.

While the travertine effect adds depth to touch, the metallic paint from Cebos Color glazes and adorns the travertine effect with a layer of precious metallic lustre, which allows your space to sparkle and reflect with a unique, iridescent two-tone finish.

Visit any online art materials shop and the choice of oil painting brands is enormous. What are the differences between all these different paint brands? In the past I have tried quite a few but nowhere near all of them of course. I love trying out new stuff!

I must admit that I have been happy with a couple of brands for a few years and tend to stick with them for now. Maybe my experimenting days are over and I am growing old, or maybe I know I need to produce proper stuff for galleries and clients and will not take any risks anymore.

Choosing paint is very personal and budget dependent. Buy the best you can afford seems to be the general advice. For me personally I find Winsor & Newton Artists Oil probably the best overall paint as the price is very reasonable and the paint of good quality. But I have opted for more expensive paint to use simply because I want to and really enjoy the superb quality of it. It actually adds a bit more joy to the process of painting for me.

Most oil paint brands organise their colours by price. They give their colours series numbers. Most cadmiums are usually in the more expensive series, basic colours such as white and black are in the cheapest series 1. Series numbers refer to price range, not pigment load or quality and is brand specific so you cannot compare with other brands. Most brands provide paints in 37ml or 40ml tubes and some popular colours in large 200ml tubes as well.

All brands have a different consistency and artists choose whichever suits them best. Stiff paint (short paint) such as Old Holland might suit someone who would like to use impasto and leave visible brush marks. Long paint (fluid and smooth) such as Vasari would be more suitable for painters who work into small details and prefer a soft and smooth effect.

All normal oil paints can be mixed together, regardless of brand so there is no reason to stick to one brand. Each colour will have its own lightfastness rating, which is often provided on the tubes themselves or else online or can be requested.

Vasari: American brand. Handmade oil paints of beautiful quality. Superb subtle colours of great depth, spreads easily without losing colour. Not suitable for impasto or thick brush work. My favourite brand. Some favourites are Bice, Brilliant Yellow Extra Pale and Bluff is a great skin colour.

Old Holland: Dutch brand. Ancient brand (started in the 17th century) of fantastic quality paint. Thick and buttery, a huge range of beautiful colours (often with for me nostalgic place names like Scheveningen and Delft). Fabulous quality but very thick.

Michael Harding: British brand. Handmade paints. Great quality and a great story. Michael Harding is incredibly involved and full of knowledge he shares happily. Beautiful paint and very rich deep colours. Sometimes a tad grainy. I am currently loving the Alizarin Claret.

Winsor & Newton Artists Oils: British brand. All round wonderful quality and affordable pricing. Very consistent and reliable paint. Good quality and price balance. I use W&N for large tubes of white, burnt umber and black.

Schmincke Mussini: German brand. Wonderful quality paint, especially the earth and grey tones. Lovely transparent colours. Oils are manufactured with resin, linseed oil, safflower oil and poppy-seed oil through a sophisticated process which results in very beautiful and deep colours with excellent and consistent drying properties. One of my favourite paints. I love their greys, Mineral Brown, Brilliant Scarlet, Translucent Yellow, Indian Yellow and Indigo Tone.

Faltan algunas pinturas de calidad. Solo quiero preguntarle si se puede mezclar pintura al leo, ejemplo: un azul preparado con aceite de linaza y un blanco preparado con aceite de cartamo, para obtener un azul ms claro, por decirlo as.
Gracias por sus artculos.

Hi David, I never tried Charvin! And yes, the best paint does come at a price. Most of the top rated paints are not cheap. If you are after more affordable, try W&N or perhaps even student quality paint.

Hi Sophie. About to take the plunge into oils. As my style in pastel is quite detailed I expect to do the same in oils. I expect glazing in layers will be what I want to do. Do you have any experience with alkyds. Coming from pastel, the drying time is freaking me out!

Thanks for the reply sophie ,today I looked into your paintings more closely,you are simply superb,a modern master just two questions,which WHITE do you use as your main white, second do you make an underpainting if yes,how?

Thanks Inigo! I know all about what you are saying. I often want things from the US but it is just too expensive to get it into Europe! Vasari is beautiful paint though, I love it. Worth it if you can afford it. Thanks for popping by! Sophie

I love Vasari paints for the reasons you mentioned. I also use Natural Pigments Rublev colors. They, especially the ochre colors tend to be a bit grittier, in my experience, and I like the texture. I also use their Oleogel as a medium.

When it was painted in 1505, The Battle of Anghiari was regarded as the best work by Leonardo da Vinci, arguably the most well-known painter of the Renaissance era and today. This one battle scene, commissioned by Italian statesman Piero Soderini to be painted in the Palazzo Vecchio, was said to surpass any other painting produced during the Renaissance. A century later, however, painter Giorgio Vasari was told to paint over it by the Grand Duke Cosimo I. After this, there are no known records of The Battle of Anghiari. Art historians knew it should rest in the Palazzo Vecchio, but found nothing more than copied sketches by Peter Paul Rubens and da Vinci himself. Nothing could point them to the original.

Brushability: In what I consider the ideal paint the mixture that comes out of a tube should be soft and workable. Not soupy and runny, and not stiff and dry. Different artists will have a preference for different qualities in this regard and most of that is determined by how thickly you like to apply paint to the canvas.

Price: You are going to pay more for a quality paint than for a student grade paint. More pigment in a tube costs more money to make than less pigment. That is certain. However, beyond a certain point you will be paying only for the name and for the marketing romance. This can be seen in many industries, but is probably most obvious in the clothing and accessory world. Many people will pay more money for the same product if it has a certain brand stamped on it. Watch for this because it exists in the world of paints as well. Extremely good paint can be found for a decent price.

Tube quality: I hate it when caps split or tubes break open and paint oozes all over my other tubes. This can be messy and costly and so I prefer to buy paint that comes in decent packages.

Synopsis:_Producing colours in SMALL AMOUNTS is a limitation, not an advantage. Each batch has a significant chance of being slightly different than the previous one. One of our first jobs was mixing paint for Autobody shops and we always mixed more than needed for precisely this reason. The SECRET OF THE OLD MASTERS this claim is often made by boutique brands to justify the particle size of their pigments. AUTHENTIC Pigments_this is just fluff marketing used in this context. Vasari passionately refuses to dull, stiffen, or weaken their colours with fillers such as chalk or wax. Most of the brands, if not all make this claim. It is up to the individual to determine rather it is good or bad. Each pigment has its own individual characteristics and may require additional ingredients for those pigments to perform well. None of the pigments tested were devoid of these ingredients. Below specified percentage ingredients are not required to be listed on the label. It should also be noted that formulating individual recipes for different pigments is a time consuming and expensive proposition. It requires having a staff of chemical engineers and years of experience. Like the other brands reviewed much of the PROSPECTUS is marketing hyperbole. Vasari seems to have patterned part of its line in the manner of Blockx, a good choice because Blockx makes an excellent part. Vasari has a strong following of professional painters and they make a Professional-Grade line of paints.

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