WilliamsburgArtist Oil Colors by GOLDEN, Cold Black, 150 ml tube, Professional Oil Paint, Opaque

Wiliamsburg is an excellent paint. It is well worth paying a tiny bit more for the quality of the paint you receive. It is creamy so it spreads easily but not too wet. It works well with Linseed Oil and other oil mediums. The colors are very true to classic pigments and each tube is consistently the same. The lids are even larger than some brands which makes it easier to grab and twist off and on.Regarding the color Courbet Green: It's a super deep green with black undertones. The difference in hue once dried is minimal but just enough to show it's beautiful green color. I've included a picture of the the Courbet Green dried on canvas paper. It's a 1st layer under painting. The foliage below the sky is this paint. I cannot recommend this brand enough.

Anyone who has been painting with oils for any length of time (or passion) is most likely familiar with the Williamsburg paint line. This isn't the Grumbachers, Reeves, or even Winsor & Newton oils from your craft stores. Even many small art supply stores don't carry it because of the higher prices for some of the pigments. It is considered up there with the other top paints such as Old Holland, Harding, Blockx, etc...much higher quality of product and a much higher amount of top-notch pigment loaded with minimal oil/fillers/binders. This doesn't mean that it's not wonderfully creamy to use, though. It just means that when you squeeze out a small nut of paint on your palette, that an equal amount of separated oil doesn't ooze out first and puddle around the color. While some people might be only familiar with using oil color straight from the tube and actually may prefer the thinner consistency of those oil paints, I much prefer a thicker, higher pigment-load product. I always figure that I can quickly and easily thin it to the consistency (and flat, smooth-brushing capability) of thinner oil colors by using various mediums or turps. But when you want to be able to see expressive brush strokes, it really helps to use one of the best.As far as this color goes, I originally bought it just because it was available on Amazon Prime for a good price (plus it is a pigment that is in a lower price range to start with). I've been VERY pleasantly surprised at how many times I've found a use for it though. It isn't one of the mixes of oil colors that you can achieve by mixing a bit of sienna or umber into titanium white. Instead they heat titanium dioxide until it reaches this color...sort of a creamy grayish-buff color (think of pale latte). And the uses? I sometimes use it instead of titanium white for mixing tints...it creates much softer hues when mixed with other colors. It is finding the occasional palette spot for mixing flesh tones for portraits. And sometimes it just comes in handy for its nice, soft neutral color. It started out as a color that I doubted I'd use much. Now I see myself needing to restock it in the not too distant future.Some paint manufacturers make a version of it that is merely titanium white mixed with a speck of raw umber. You can mix that yourself; but in my opinion, it doesn't look the same. Other high-end paint makers do as Williamsburg does by heat-altering titanium dioxide. I haven't tried their versions yet; but I do highly recommend the Unbleached Titanium that Williamsburg produces.

Williamsburg is my favorite oil paint, not too runny, good consistency. The French is my favorite ult blue. Beautiful. Worth it.

I love this set. The colors are beautiful. Good consistency, very easy to work with.

Great paint brand to use.

I utilize primarily most of all their transparent and semi transparent oil paints. I paint in multiple thin glazing layers, very similar to Leonardo da Vinci, and by doing that you get color, beauty and depths and luminosity in your oil painting that you cannot get by just painting one color on your surface. The magenta here is a gorgeous and once again a series 5, which is a very high-quality pigment and the beauty is, it's only made with one pigment to maintain that color, so that is a almost pure color would be very hard if you mixed a red and a blue primary to get that magenta would be very hard so once again, if you love that particular color exactly the way it is for your painting then you got a winner. One of the things I like to share with you that I do that's a little different all the manufactures all of them will send you a color printed brochure of their color palette of all the colors they have an offer to sell to each artist, but I make up my own journals and make my own color patch of every color with all the technical data, and at the drop of a hat I can go into my art journal with whatever manufacture, and I use mini and look up the data, a real color patch to look at the real color not a printed color tells you what you wanna see And then you make better choices just a suggestion have a great day and keep painting Amazon does a tremendous job and offers a tremendous price and shipment of these great Williamsberg oil paints, and I have bought mini through Amazon and very happy of course.Jim Springett, wild

I've used Utrecht titanium white for decades. It is very good and economical and I'll continue to use it when a section of a painting requires large volumes of white. I recently tried this Williamsburg Titanium White and wow, it just feels perfect when lightening colors with it. It has a very rich consistency and blends very easily. It is when you apply it with either brush or painting knife that you begin to really appreciate it -- it has a certain "touch". It's not as inexpensive as others, but unless you're going to use a lot it isn't a big consideration.

The color is exactly what I was looking for ... a glittery silver. The texture, however, was unexpected. I was hoping for a more fluid buttery texture. I feel like I can only use it if blended with 50% Solvent-free gel painting medium.

For me.. this is the best paint on the market.. the Colors are amazing.. which give an incredible finished product

Una maravilla de pintura al óleo, sin embargo es una lástima la falta de constancia con la que este producto está disponible, lo cual hace necesario obtener otro proveedor para conseguirlo.

Absolutely love Williamsburg Oils, and this set is an asset. Just good ol’ fashioned quality.

Merci

One of the best oil paints made. Expensive but you truly get what you pay for