WN Griffin Alkyd Ultramarine Green davinci The colour strength allows them

The colour strength allows them to be diluted to watercolour like washes or used undiluted to make bold

buttery consistency and as such is often used as an additive to Titanium White oil paint (even if it not mentioned on the tube) to tame Titanium’s more difficult and “ropey” nature

French Ultramarine is a wonderful sky pigment

Dioxazine Violet is a very deep purple

Use it when less stain and more granulation is desired

WN Griffin Alkyd Ultramarine Green davinci The colour strength allows themFollowing the popularity of acrylic colours, which dry in 10 20 minutes, oil painters began requesting a product which dried faster than traditional oils. Winsor & Newton responded in 1976 by developing a range of alkyd colours, which has today become Griffin Alkyd Fast Drying Oil Colour. Alkyds are made from a naturally derived vegetable oil that is polymerized. The result is a resin like product that, when mixed with a solvent, is very similar to