[Assorted Artists' Color Charts & Resources]|[Brand/Trade Name Artists' Paint & Pigment Manfacturers]
[Industrial Pigment Manufacturers]|[Uncategorised Colorants, Pigments & Inks (Tattoo, Cosmetic, Food)]
I assembled these links to color charts because i refer to them whenever I'm about to buy a new paint, and it's nice to have them all in one spot. The only really useful charts are the ones that include the color index international pigment names. The color index names and numbers are internationally recognized by the AATCC, SDC, and the ASTM. In the brands that have the color index names & Color Charts on separate files, I have included a link to the technical specifications with color index names and the separate color charts. Be aware that the actual colors in the real world may look slightly different than they do online, due to your computer monitor brand & settings and/or the very nature of radiant (monitor display) vs. reflected light (painted surfaces). For more thoughts on the color charts see NOTES below
Info: Artists' Brands/Trademarks are sorted Alphabetically, the names are linked to a company's main web page. I can't put every single artist paint or pigment maker in the world here, but I've tried to make the list as comprehensive as possible, If you know any quality paint brands I've missed, let me know.
The color chart links are notated with:
(Web) = link to the website color charts, resources & info or
(PDF) = PDF color chart, technical sheets, SDS and other information pdf files available by either direct download or available on the website.
(JPG) = Jpg, Png, Bmp or other type of bitmap/raster images.
** Double asterisks next to a Web link, color chart or PDF file etc. indicate there are no Colour Index Pigment Names or pigment information available on that specific link only.
When possible, I have included some discontinued lines of paints with color charts and brochures, along with some older color charts for historical reference information only.
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HandPrint by Bruce MacEvoy: Handprint's Guide to Watercolor Pigments and The Complete Palette is the best resource for water color, paint & pigment information. The color/pigment pages are separated by color hue and include color index names, brand names, color swatches and Bruce MacEvoy's own, real world, lightfastness tests. Highly recommended.
Jane Blundell's Watercolour Swatches (Web): Jane Blundell at janeblundellart.com has an incredible web page with her own hand painted watercolour swatches. These swatches are listed by Color, Colour Index number, color name & paint brand; along with staining, lightfast rating, granulation and transparency information... Just excellent work! Highly recommended.
WetCanvas forums: Although, not color charts per say, it is one of the best art forum & artist discussion websites; with many members posting their own paint/painting experiences, tips, art tutorials, questions and paint test experiments; including all artist mediums/binders, paints and art techniques.
YouTubers:
Dr. Oto Kano, Oto Kano's YouTube Channel: Her 'about page' says why I've included her channel in this list,"I test out and experiment with watercolors thoroughly! ". She has a series where she compares similar water colors & pigments , along with reviews and complete breakdown of specific watercolor paints. She also makes her own line of handmade watercolors. This information is applicable to any artist interested in colors and making paints, not just watercolorists. Many of her color charts and tests are avalible free on her Patron page.
In Liquid Color, Denise Soden's YouTube Channel: I've been binge watching her videos ever since I first came across her channel. Denise is a watercolorist that specializes in animal paintings. However, it's her great color swatches that made me add her channel to this page. Some video series of note are the Color Spotlight series, where she focuses on a specific pigment, comparing brands and hues and the Swatch with me series, where she swatches out entire paint lines of watercolors including Colour Index names, and covering almost every brand of watercolors out there. The other product reviews are also great. Her channel is mostly about watercolors, but the pigment info and swatches can be useful to oil & acrylic painters or any artist that is a nerd about color and pigments. Some of her swatch cards are available as scanned JPG images for free download on her patreon page, and there are high definition scans and more color charts available to her Patreons. I am mostly an oil & acrylic painter, but after watching a few or her videos I dug out my old watercolors (that I never used), and started to have fun.
Walcott Fine Art, YouTube channel by Jason Walcott. I have to put someone who works with oil paints and acrylics here. He has many videos on pigments and pigment history, along with mixing tutorials and examples. He shows example swatches of oil paint brands and the pigments they are made of in a series that is divided into specific hues, such as red, blues, greens, etc. Well worth watching.
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Artistic Lineage | Art Spectrum | Blick Art Materials | Blockx | Blueridge Oil Colors
C.A.S AlkydPro | Ceracolors | Charvin | CJ's American Journey | Chroma | Colors of Nature | Cornelissen
Daniel Smith | Daler-Rowney | Davenport, Jane | Da Vinci | Doak | Earth Pigments | Ferrario
Gamblin | Genesis | Golden | Grapewood | Grumbacher | Guerra Paint & Pigment | Holbien | Isaro
Jackson's | Jaurena Art (Mir) | Kama Pigments | Kremer Pigmente | Kreul | Kroma | Langridge | Lascaux
Lefranc & Bourgeois | Leroux, Couleurs | Liquitex | Lukas | Maimeri | Matisse, Derivan
M. Graham | Master Pigments | Michael Harding | Mijello (Mission Gold) | Mont Marte | Natural Earth Paints
Natural Pigments | Nevskaya Palitra | Old Holland | Pebeo | Pfeiffer | QoR | R&F Handmade Paints
Redwood Willow | Renesans | RGH Artists' Oil Paints | Richeson | Royal Talens | SAA | Schmincke
Sennelier | ShinHan Art Materials | Sinopia Pigments | St. Petersburg - by Nevskaya Palitra | Stoneground Paint
Triangle Coatings | Tri-Art | Turner Colour Works | Umtom Barvy | Utrecht | Vasari Classic Oil Colors
Wallace Seymour (formerly Pip Seymour) | Weber (Martin F. Weber) | Williamsburg Handmade Oils
Winsor & Newton | Zecchi - Colori - Belle Arti
Artistic Lineage: Art Brands Top^
Made in South Louisiana, USA, founded by Cindy Rodger, a professional painter and designer. There are no PDF color charts available, but their site will show the C.I. pigment names and other color info when you click on the individual paint color swatches.
Oil paints
Art Spectrum: Art Brands Top^
Australian Makers of Artist' paints. These links take you to their web site where C.I. names are available
CI names/numbers available on the website by selecting the color and clicking all the way down to the specific pigment.
Entire 2018 Catalog (PDF) No CI names
Art Spectrum® Professional Quality Artists’ Oil Colours (Web) | Professional Quality Oil Colour Chart (PDF** ) no CI numbers
Art Prizm Studio Oil Colors (Web) | Art Prizm Studio Oil Paint Chart (PDF)**
Art Spectrum Artists’ Watercolours Pigment List (Web) | Artists’ Watercolours (PDF**)
Art Prizm Studio Watercolor Color Chart (PDF)
Artists’ Gouache Color Chart (2016 PDF**) no CI names
Art Spectrum Soft Pastels Color Chart (PDF**) no CI names
MSDS (SDS, SIS) Sheets can be found here
** no C.I. names on that specific file/pdf
Blick Art Materials: Art Brands Top^
USA Art Materials Company sells a wide range of art accessories and many popular paint brands including their own brand. Paint and Pigment Data along with MSDS sheets can be found on all of their products, and many other brands they sell on the site by clicking on the paint color or specific product. Blick art materials is an affiliate of this site and you can help support this site, at no extra cost to you, and get great deals and discounts in the process, by buying through these links.
Blick Artists’ Oil Color (Web), Blick Artist Oils (2009 PDF)
Blick Studio Oils (Web)
Blick Artists' Watercolor (Web) | Blick Liquid Watercolors (Web)
Blick Artists' Acrylic (Web) (PDF), Blick Matte Arylics (Web), Blick Studio Acrylics (Web)
Artists' Soft Pastels (Web)
Misc.:
Brushes (Web)
Blick Art Materials's Downloadable Catalog also has pigment info
Blockx: Art Brands Top^
Belgium paint makers since 1865. They still use stone mills and the pigments are ground with poppyseed oil, reportedly Salvator Dali's favorite paint. Color Charts with Colour Index names are on their website.
Extra-fine Artists' Oils (PDF) (Website) | Aquarelles Watercolor (PDF) (Website)
Pastels (PDF) (Web) | Pigments (Web)
Health, safety and environmental Statement (Web)
Blueridge Oil Colors: Art Brands Top^
USA family-run company. Eric Silver, the founder was an apprentice of Doak. These are top quality, high pigment load, minimal additive oil paints that can match or exceed all the best brands in the world. These links take you to their web site where C.I. names are available by selecting a paint color swatch.
I could not find any PDF files. Color Chart 2017 (JPG)
Oil Paints (Web) I Dry Pigments (Web) I Oil Mediums (Web)
Safe handling statement (Web)
C.A.S AlkydPro: Art Brands Top^
Professional fast drying Alkyd paints made in the U.S.A. Tested by the research dept. of the National Gallery of Arts: "The CAS alkyd paints were all single pigment materials. All of the CAS alkyd paints produced powder diffraction patterns containing the expected pigments. However, this is not the case with the Winsor and Newton Griffin Alkyds."
C.I. names are available at their website and in the PDF. Clicking on the color hue links will give the CI numbers.
C.A.S. AlkydPro color hues (Web) | Color Chart (PDF)
Ceracolors: Art Brands Top^
Ceracolor water soluble wax paints are manufactured in the US by Natural Pigments, LLC located in Willits, California. "Water-soluble wax paint can be used in a wide range of painting techniques from thick impastos to watercolor-like washes". On the website you can click on the paint swatches to get Color Index Names and more info.
Ceracolor water-soluble wax paint (Web)
Charvin: Art Brands Top^
French company. Charvin's web site has CI numbers in the color charts.
Charvin Extra-Fine Oil Colours (Web) - Extra Fine Oils & Elite Fine Oils (older catalog on Web w/ CI) - (2012 PDF)
Oil Paint MSDS, SDS (PDF)
Charvin Super-Fine Oils (Web)
Aquarelle Watercolours (Web) appears to only have whites?
Charvin Extra-Fine Acrylics (Web**), PDFs' w/ CI names (PDF) (alt PDF) (alt PDF)
Extra-fine Gouaches (Web**) | Charvin Pigments (Web**)
** no CI names available
Cheap Joe's American Journey: Art Brands Top^
Cheap Joe's proprietary brand of watercolors, Made in the USA?,
probably a private label jobby? If anyone knows who makes these let me know. Color Index names can be found by clicking on the product number, and selecting the "additional" tab below the images.
American Journey Professional Artists' Watercolors & Watercolor Sticks (Web), (PDF)
Chroma Inc. : Art Brands Top^
Australian makers of artist quality paints and supplies. The PDFs' have colour charts with CI information, The Archival Oils line have Blue Wool Scale ratings for lightfastness, to my knowledge they are the only artist paint manufacturer that does this. I wish they all did. Blue wool scales are far superior to the ASTM ratings or a company's own proprietary ratings for lightfastness.
Archival Oils (PDF)
Archival A4 Acrylic Paints (PDF) | Atelier Interactive Acrylics (PDF)
Absolute Matte Acrylic Paints (PDF)
Jo Sonja Acrylics (PDF) | Background & Iridescent (PDF)
Chroma Atelier A2 Acrylics (PDF)
MSDS Sheets for all products (Web)
Colors of Nature: Art Brands Top^
Natural Earth-friendly vegan paints & pigments made in Canada. In their words; "Made completely from natural ingredients, Safe for children and adults. Animal free, cruelty free, solvent free, and petroleum free. Professional quality performance and permanent or excellent light fastness. 'Vegan Action' certified to be vegan and cruelty-free, PETA certified to be vegan and cruelty-free. Certified by 'The Good Shopping Guide' to be an Ethically Accredited Company".
They have a small limited palette of mostly Earth colors & pigments, that come in small reusable jars. Color Index names
can be found on the website by clicking on the individual paint image to get full paint or pigment details.
Colors of Nature Artist's Oil Paints (Web)
Colors of Nature Artist's Watercolor Paints (Web)
Colors of Nature Pigments (Wedb)
Cornelissen (L. Cornelissen & Son): Art Brands Top^
Based in London, England. Cornelissen has specialised in the supply of artists’ pigments since 1855. "We source, process and pack more than one hundred different pigments from all over the world. We select pigments for their specific artists’ quality properties. Included in our range is a limited selection of relatively obscure pigments known as our Early Colours." Entire Catalog 2014/2015 in a downloadable (E-Book) has CI numbers for their pigments. The web pages have Color Index Names by slecting the pigment color image to view details. I'm not sure if they
ship to the Americas.
Dry Pigments, fillers & additives (Web), select the color hue category to view the different color ranges.
Misc.:
Downloadable How to make paint recipe book (Requires Adobe Flash) (Web)
Cornelissen Pigments at Jackson's Art affiliate link (Web), Has CI numbers when you click on the color image.
Daniel Smith: Art Brands Top^
Made in the USA, first manufacturer to make the high-performance Quinacridone pigments into artists’ paints, they also developed the exciting PrimaTek line of with unique natural pigments. On their website, most of the CI names are listed by selecting the specific color to get more details. You can also request their free catalog where they have all the CI pigments names for their paints listed. I Could only find a few current PDFs.
Original™ Oil Colors (Web), Oil Colors & Water Soluble Oil Colors (PDF) - MSDS (PDF)
PrimaTek™ Original Oil Colors (Web) - light fastness & Transparency info by selecting the specific color - MSDS (PDF)
Daniel Smith Extra Fine™ Watercolors (Web), Extra Fine™ Watercolors, Luminescent™ and PrimaTek™ Watercolors (PDF)
Primatek™ Watercolors (Web), Primatek™ Watercolors (PDF) - (Old 2010 PDF)
Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolor Stiks (Web)
General PrimaTek™ Info (PDF)
Discontinued products:
Acrylics discontinued (2015) | Dry Pigments discontinued
Daler-Rowney: Art Brands Top^
A UK manufacturer of art materials since 1783. Manufactures and distributes a whole bunch of art materials, including brushes, papers, pens, markers etc. etc. They make everything from artist quality paints to student brand paints to cheap elementary school supply type paints.
Pigment list (PDF) All product pigments on one list w/ C.I numbers.
Below are Color Charts (most have no CI names):
Artists' Brand Oil Colors Color Chart only (JPG**) (PDF) MSDS (PDF)
Georgian Oil Colours Color Chart (JPG) (PDF w/ CI names) MSDS (PDF)
Georgian Water Mixable Oil Paints (PDF w/ CI names) MSDS (PDF)
Graduate Oil Colours Chart (Gif) (PDF w/ CI names) MSDS (PDF)
Artists' Watercolour Chart (JPG) MSDS (PDF) | Aquafine Watercolour Chart (PDF w/ CI names)
Cryla Artists' Acrylic Technical Handbook (PDF w/ CI names) MSDS (PDF) | System 3 Acrylic Chart (PDF w/ C.I.N.) MSDS
Graduate Acrylic Chart (PDF w/ C.I. Names) MSDS (PDF)
Egg Tempera Chart (PDF) MSDS | Designers' Gouache Chart (GIF) MSDS | FW Ink Chart (PDF)
MSDS Sheets of entire product line
Davenport, Jane (Jane Davenport): Art Brands Top^
Popular crafter brand based in Australia. "Jane Davenport is an artist, best selling author and designer of her own art supplies." A lot of her products are sold in Michael's Craft supply stores in the US. and she he has a wide range of mixed-media and craft art supplies under her name. The watercolors & acrylics are a private label brand made in Korea. The water colors have some JPG images with the CI generic names available , but the acrylics only seem to be sold as sets and have no CI names available so I won't add them here.
Watercolor Pans Color Chart (JPG)
Da Vinci: Art Brands Top^
Da Vinci paints are handmade in California, USA. This is a sleeper brand, and deserve more recognition than they get as high quality paints at a reasonable price. The web site has C.I. names and color charts when you select the product category.
2012 catalog has CI names & color swatches for all their colors (may not be current) (PDF)
Professional Oils (Web) - MSDS
Fast Dry Alkyd Oils (Web) - MSDS
Heavy Body Acrylics (Web) - Fluid Acrylics (Web) - MSDS
Permanent Artist's Watercolor (Web) - Professional Watercolor (PDF) - MSDS
Professional Gouache (Web) - Professional Gouache (PDF) - MSDS
Discontinued products:
Professional Leonardo Oil with Alkyd discontinued (old PDF)
Scuola Semi-Professional Oils (PDF Old, Discontinued)
Scuola Semi-Professional Acrylic (PDF, Old, discontinued)
Scuola Semi-Professional Watercolor (PDF Old, discontinued
Doak: Art Brands Top^
Doak Shopify Page**
**No CI numbers available. Does not conform to
the voluntary ASTM specification D 4302-05.
Earth Pigments: Art Brands Top^
Natural earth & mineral pigment supplier based in the USA. They are a distributor for The Society of Ochers of France, operators of the last remaining Ocher quarry in the Provence region. In addition to the European colors, they also offer a unique selection of pigments from the US.
The following links take you to their web site where C.I. names are available by clicking on the pigment details button below the pigment images, then click the "show details" button.
Natural Earth and Ocher pigments (Web) | French Mineral Pigments (Web)
Primary Pigments (Web) | Oxide Pigments (Web) | Colonial Natural Pigments from the US (Web) | Mica Powders (Web)
MSDS Sheets
Ferrario (Italian site): Art Brands Top^
Ferrario was founded in 1919, and is one of the oldest manufacturers of Artist Paint in Italy. They do not be seem to be distributed or sold in the Americas, except a few Esty or Ebay listings. Their website is in Italian only, but it can be translated through Google translate. International Colour Index Names can be found on their website by clicking the CARTELLA COLORI (color Chart) down arrow on the paint series pages.
Oil colors:
FERRARIO 1919 Extra-fine oil colors (Web)
VAN DYCK Fine oil colors
(Web)
OIL MASTER Studio oil color (Web)
ALKYD Fast drying extra-fine oil colors (Web)
XPRESS Fast drying oil colors (Web)
IDROIL Fine oil colors soluble in water (Web)
Watercolors:
ACQUARELLI FERRARIO 1919 Extrafine watercolors for artists (Web)
TINTORETTO Fine watercolor colors (Web)
PRIMARY Extrafine tempera (Gouache) colors (Web)
TIEPOLOS Fine tempera (Gouache) colors (Web)
TEMPERELLA Studio tempera (Gouache) colors (Web)
Acrylics:
ACRILIC MASTER GLOSSY Glossy studio acrylic colors (Web)
PHOSPHORUS ACRYLIC Phosphorescent acrylic colors (Web**)
ACRILIC MASTER Student Acrylic colors (Web)
APA COLOR Fluid acrylic colors (Web**)
Misc.:
PASTELLI EXTRAFINI Extrafine pastels for artists (Web)
** means no Color Index Names available
Shoping:
Ferrario paint listings on eBay
Gamblin: Art Brands Top^
Portland, Oregon USA maker of Artist grade oil paints with a mission is to lead oil painting and printmaking into the future using safer and more permanent pigments and mediums.
C.I. names are available in PDF format and online, click the Color Swatches to bring up details.
Artist Grade Oil Colors (Web) (PDF) | 1980 Oil Colors (Websie has no CI numbers) (PDF)
FastMatte Aylkd Oils (Web) | Dry Pigment powders (Web no CI)
Gamblin Conservation Colors (PDF) (Web) Tech Data (PDF) | Pigmented Wax Resin (Web) (Technical Data PDF)
Gamblin Ecthing Inks (Web) | Gamblin Relief Ink (Web)
Discontinued Paints (Web)
MSDS Material Safety Data Sheets For all their art products
Genesis Artist Colors: Art Brands Top^
Makers of heat set oil paints, exclusive permanent oil paints that stay open (workable, blend-able) until set with heat.
Genesis Heat Set Oils (Colors with no CI names - Web US), (Colours w/ CI names JPG AU)
Geneva Fine Art: Art Brands Top^
Designed by realist artist Mark Carder to stay open (workable) for longer periods, and to have superior consistency and handling properties right out of the tube. Great for wet on wet techniques that require long painting sessions over a matter of days or weeks. Color Index Names are available by selecting the specific oil paint color to bring up details.
Geneva Artists' Oils (Web)
Golden Artist Colors: Art Brands Top^
An employee owned US company of high quality artists' acrylics. GOLDEN acquired Williamsburg Oil Colors in 2010, any fairly recently introduced the Qor brand of watercolors. I have listed Williamburg Oils and Qor Watercolors under there own entry. Most of these links take you to their website, click on the paint swatches to get Color Index Names and more info.
Acrylics:
Pigment Information can be found all on one page (Web)
Heavy Body Acrylics (Web) (Munsell Color System list)| Fluid Acrylics (Web) | High Flow (airbrush) Acrylics (Web)
Open Acrylics (Web) | Matte Acrylics (Web)
GOLDEN Interference & Iridescent Acrylic Colors (Web) | Fluorescent & Phosphorescent Colors (Web)
Conservation: Mineral Spirit Acrylic MSA Colors (Web) (Tech Data PDF) | PVA Colors (PDF) MSDS (PDF)
New! Watercolors:
QoR Modern Watercolors (Web), (Color list w/ CI names), MSDS/SDS (PDF)
QoR Modern Watercolors at Blick Art Materials affiliate link (Web) has CI names and MSDS sheets for every color.
MSDS, SDS Sheets:
MSDS Master Sheet (PDF) | All MSDS Sheets (Web) | The Nomenclature of Color (Web)
Grapewood Colours: Art Brands Top^
Grapewood Colors (Demetriou Pigments Division) was established 1973 in Cyprus. "The hard work of selecting, working and making of earth and inorganic pigments has been handed down for two generations". I could find no Color Index names or information on the website, except for a few of the colors that are seperated out on the main menu.
Artists' Oil Paint (Web)
Artists' Dry Pigments (Web)
Grumbacher Art Brands Top^
"Since 1905, Grumbacher has been a brand trusted by art conservationists, and professional artists throughout the United States". Grumbacher was aquired by Chartpak, Inc in 2006, the jury is still open as to weather Chartpak can deliver quality to match the original. C.I. names are available on their website, click the color swatches to bring up details.
Pre-Tested® Professional Oils (Web), MSDS (PDF) | Academy® Oil student line (Web), MSDS (PDF)
Max® Water Mixable Oils (Web), MSDS (PDF)
Finest® Astist's Watercolors (Web), MSDS (PDF) | Academy® collegiate line watercolor paints (Web), MSDS (PDF)
Academy® Acrylic Paints (Web), MSDS (PDF)
Old charts for Pre-Tested Oils Color Chart (PDF), Spec Sheet (PDF) for historical interest only.
Guerra Paint & Pigment: Art Brands Top^
Artist-owned shop in the USA, specializing in raw pigments & other components for designing unique paint colors. Founded in 1986, Guerra Paint & Pigment Corp. has amassed the largest rare pigment collection in the world. These links take you to their web site where C.I. names are available by selecting the color and clicking down to the specific pigment.
Catalog/Pigment List 2016 (PDF) This is an older catalog, and some of the extinct pigments in the list are sold out, and it also may not have pigments recently added to their line.
Dry Pigments (Web)
Pigment Dispersions (Web)
Dispersions Color Chart 2016 (PDF) Dispersions Color Chart 2015 (PDF)
Pealescents Chart (PDF) | Metallic Powders (Web) | Flourescent Pigments (Web) | Interference/Pearlescent Powders (Web)
Pearlescent Mica powders (Web) | Phosphorescent "Glow in the Dark" pigments (Web)
Additives (Web) | Acrylic and Polyurethane Binders/Mediums (web)
Guerra Paint & Pigment NYC YouTube Channel
Holbien US: Holbien Japan Eng.: Art Brands Top^
HK Holbien is a Japanese maker of artist quality paints. The E-books are mosty in Japanese, but the Colour Index Names are international. The old PDFs are in English but may not match the current line. The US website has no CI information, just color charts.
Artists Oil Paint (Web US), (Current E-Book), (2014 PDF)
Yuichi Artists Oil Paint (Current E-Book), (2014 PDF)
Vernét Superior Astist's Oil Paints (Web US), (Current E-Book)
Pop Ecolse Oil Paint (Current E-Book), (2014 PDF)
Duo Water Soluble Oil Paint (Web US), (E-Book), (2014 PDF)
Artists' Transparent Watercolors (Web US), (Current E-Book), (2014 PDF)
Artists' Watercolor Pans/half pans (Web US), (Current E-Book), (2014 PDF)
Artists' Designer Gouache (Web US), (E-Book), (2014 PDF)
Acryla Acrylic Gouache (Web US), (E-Book)
Heavy Body Artists Acrylic (Web US), (Heavy Body, Fluid & Ink E-Book), (2014 PDF)
Drawing Inks (Web US), (2014 PDF)
Artist's Soft Pastels (Web US), (E-Book) | Arist's Oil Pastels (Web US), (E-Book) | Pan Pastels (2014 PDF)
Dry Pigments (Current E-Book), (2014 PDF)
All Holbien Product E-Books Here
Below is an old PDF with CI names for their entire line, but is from 2002, so it may not match current product line. For historic research only.
Hobien Technical Specifications (2004 PDF)
Isaro: Art Brands Top^
Made in Belgium. "Colourwoman, Isabelle Roelofs was born into a family of artists and colourmen, inheriting their passion and expertise for creating colour. In 2008 she decided to breathe new life into this heritage by creating a unique range of oil paints using traditional and modern pigments, selected using both her know-how and family tradition. She named the brand of paints ISARO (ISAbelle ROelofs). ” The manufacture of Isaro colours is done on an artisanal, small-batch scale."
You can get Colour Index Names on their web site by clicking on the color image and scrolling down on the specific colour page to the to the "Color Data Sheet". They sell the oil paint line exclusively through Jackson's. Jackson's ship internationally and their website has CI information by clicking on the color swatches to get more details.
Isaro Artist Oil Colours (Web)
Isaro Artist Watercolors (Web)
International shopping links:
Jackson's Isaro oil colours page (Web)
Jackson's: Art Brands Top^
Jackson’s in London, England is a well-established maker and supplier of art materials. "Jackson’s Professional paints are made by skilled artisans using the finest grade pigments and the purest refined binders. You will find our paints are luminous, vibrant, and full of character." Their paints are probably private-label made by some other company... just a guess, let me know if I'm wrong.
They ship internationally but Customs Duties (tariffs) may apply depending on your country. To select your preferred currency you can select it via the drop down menu on the upper right hand side of the page. Jackson's Website has CI names by clicking the color swatches
for more color details. A few of the links below are Affilliate links you can help support this site, at no extra cost to you, and you can get great deals & discounts.
Oil paints:
Jackson's Professional Oil Paints (Web), (Color chart PDF)
Jackson's Artist's Oil Paints (Web), (Color chart PDF), MSDS SDS (PDF), MSDS SDS Cadmium (PDF)
Jackson's Aqua Oil Watermixable Colour (Web), (MSDS SDS PDF)
Watercolors:
Jackson's Artist's Watercolours tubes & pans (Web), (MSDS SDS PDF)
Jackson's Watercolor Pick Your Own Pan Sets (Web)
Acrylics:
Jackson's Artist's Acrylic Paints (Web), (Color chart PDF), MSDS SDS (PDF)
Pastels:
Jackson's Handmade Soft Pastels (Web), (Color chart PDF)
Misc.:
Jackson's E-Book Catalogs
(Downloadable as PDF files, they include Color Charts and Color Index Names for all the brands they sell):
Whole Catalogue (2016 E-Book**)
Oil paints (E-Book) | Watercolor (E-Book) | Acrlyics (E-Book) | Pastels (E-Book)
Art Materials (E-Book)
** means no CI pigment names in that specific file or link
Jaurena Art (MIR): Art Brands Top^
Distributors of Mir Oil colors & other artist brands, headquartered in Barcelona, Spain. These links take you to their web site where C.I. names are available.
Mir Oil Colours | Mir Water-colours | Mir Acrylic Colours
Kama Pigments: Art Brands Top^
Supplier and Manufacturer of handmade paints & pigments based in Quebec, Canada. These links take you to their web site where C.I. names are available.
Dry Pigments & Aqua-dispersion pigments (Web):
Kama’s Professional Artist Handmade Oil Colors (Web), (2015 PDF)
Kama Oil Sticks (Web)
Kama Pigments Full Web Catalog product list 2018 has CI names for their products & pigments
Kama Pigments Full Catalog (2008 PDF)
Kremer Pigmente International: Art Brands Top^
Supplier and manufacturer of pure mineral pigments, modern & historical pigments & other fine-art supplies. Has shops in New York, US and Germany. Color Index Numbers, Lightfastness, MSDS (SDS, SIS) sheets and other information is available by selecting the specific pigment/product on their website.
KREMER-made and historic Pigments - Pigments of Modern Age
Earth Pigments - Iron Oxide Pigments
Pearlescent Pigments & Glitter - Mother of Pearl & Glimmer - Metal Powders
Daylight Fluorescent Pigments - Phosphorescent Pigments
XSL-Pigments disigned to disperse in water, treated with dispersing agents
Iwa-Enogu® - Glass Pigments - Iwa-Enogu® Mineral Pigments
Dyes & Vegetable Color Paints
Mediums, Binders, Glues
Fillers & Building Materials - Solvents, Chemicals & Additives
Complete Catalog (PDF) Has CI names & other info towards the end.
Pigment Color Index Names & Suitabilities List (2016PDF)
Kreul: Art Brands Top^
KREUL is the first German artists’ paint factory, established in 1838. There are no Color Index names on their website, color charts or catalog that I could find.
SOLO GOYA Finest Artists’ Oil Colors (Web**), (Color chart JPG), (German Brochure PDF**)
SOLO GOYA Student Acrylic Colors (Web**), (Brochure PDF**)
Kroma:
Canadian manufacturer of Acrylics since 1970. "Our paint is made by hand in small batches, ensuring quality and freshness. We use 100% acrylic resin and light fast pigments selected from worldwide sources, with the maximum pigment loading possible for each colour. No fillers or extenders are added. All our colours, mediums and gessos are formulated, ground, processed and packaged at our workshop on Granville Island." For the paints, C.I names can be found by going to the specific, color product page, the dry pigments have C.I names in the listings.
General Pigment Information (Web**)
Artist's Quality Acylic Colours (Web)
Dry Pigments (Web)
** no CI names on that specific page
Langridge Artist Colours: Art Brands Top^
David Coles is the colourman behind Langridge, a boutique maker of high-end handmade oil paints and the only one of its kind in Australia.
Langridge Oil Colours are made solely with pigment & linseed oil and are unadulterated by fillers or modifiers, they are full-strength paint with maximum pigment loading.
Color Index Numbers can be found on the website by clicking on the color swatches/pigments images to get more information.
Langridge Handmade Oil Colour (Web), (2010 Brochure PDF-may not match current line )
Pure Pigments (Web), (Pigment compatibility chart PDF)
Lascaux: Art Brands Top^
Made in Switzerland. Their website has Colour Index Names by clicking the selected color.
Lascaux Artist Acrylics (Web), (PDF) | Artist Metallic Acrylics Web, (PDF) | Studio Acrylics (Web), (PDF)
Lascaux Studio Bronze (web), (PDF) | Lascaux Sirius Primary Colours Acrylic (Web), (PDF, no C.I.N.)
Lascaux Aquacryl Water Colors (Web), (PDF) | Lascaux Sirius Primary Watercolours (web), (PDF, no C.I.N.)
Lascaux Crystal Interference Acrylic Colours (Web), (PDF)
Lascaux Perlacryl Pearlescent Acrylics (Web), (PDF) | Neon Acrylic fluorescent colours (Web), (PDF)
Lascaux Gouache Acrylic (Web), (PDF) | Lascaux Resonance Gouache Acrylic w/ Sage Oil (Web), (PDF)
Lefranc & Bourgeois (French): Lefranc & Bourgeois (English Translated): Art Brands Top^
Heritage rich French brand ‘Lefranc Bourgeois’, founded in 1720, was relaunched by Colart in 2017. Most of their site is currently only in french, I added a few English translated links. On their website you can find the Colour Index Names by clicking on the specific color, except for Gouache and Flash Vinyl.
LEFRANC Extra Fine Artists Oil (Web French), (Web English Translated), (PDF French)
Fine Oil Colors, (Web French), (Web English Translated), (2012 PDF) (2018 PDF), (alt PDF) MSDS (French)
FINE Acrylic Colours (Web French), (PDF no CI) MSDS
Extra Fine Gouache (Web) | Fine Gouache (Web)
FLASHE vinylic (PDF)
Leroux (Couleurs Leroux French): Leroux Colors (Google English Translated): Art Brands Top^
Manufactured in Joigny, France, since 1910, Leroux colors are handcrafted artisan Fine and Extra-Fine Artists' Oil Colors of superior quality . Their site is in French, and it appears they only sell direct, and may not ship to the Americas. Colour Index names are International and they provide them on the website by clicking on the specific color swatch/images, or in the PDF color chart/pricelists PDF files (price lists may not be current). The color chart PDF is in French & English.
Color chart PDF with all oil paint grades (Extra Fine, Fine & Etude oils PDF)
Leroux Extra Fine Artist Oil Colors (Web French), (Color/Pigment price list PDF)
Leroux Fine Artist Oil Colors (Web French), (Color/Pigment price list PDF)
Leroux Etude (Student) Colors (Web French), (Color/Pigment price list PDF)
Pure Pigments (Web) CI names are only on the website
Liquitex: Art Brands Top^
Liquitex is a US based company, they created the first water-based acrylic paint. Liquitex was created in 1955 in Cincinnati, Ohio by a company named Permanent Pigments.
The PDF links here automatically download in the Chrome Browser, check your download folder, or adjust your settings in Chrome, if you do not what the PDF files to auto download.
Heavy Body Acrylics (PDF) | Soft Body Acrylics (PDF) | Super Heavy Body discontinued (2015 PDF)
Acrylic Inks (PDF) | BASICS (PDF) |
Professional Spray Paint (PDF) | Paint Markers (PDF)
MSDS Sheets here | Cadium Free Leaflet (PDF)
Discontinued:
BASICS MATTE discontinued
Liquitex Oil Colors discontinued
Lukas: Art Brands Top^
German paint manufacturing company, acquired by the FILA Group in 2016, who also own Daler-Rowney.
The only new color charts with CI names I could find are in German and take a while to down load, but they have the color index names. The old PDF files may not show their current line, for historical reference only.
2018 Product listing (Eng PDF**) Product list does not have CI names, but includes color swatches of their entire line
1862 Oil (2012 German PDF) English(PDF) (2007 PDF) | Studio Oil (German 2012 PDF) (2007 PDF)
Berlin WS Oil (2012 PDF) (English PDF) (2007 PDF) | Terzia (2018 Eng. PDF) (2012 Eng.PDF) (2007 PDF)
Aquarell 1862 (German 2012 PDF) (English PDF) (2007 PDF) | Aquarell Studio (German 2012 PDF) (2007 PDF)
Cryl Pastos Acrylics (2012 German PDF) (2007 PDF) | Cryl Studio Acrylics (2012 PDF) (2007 PDF)
Gouache (2007 PDF) Studio Gouache (Eng. 2018)
Misc.:
Lukas at Jackson's Art supply affiliate link (Web)
** Indicates there are no CI names in that specific link or document
Lutea: Art Brands Top^
Made in Belgium. "Pigments are extracted from plants chosen for their high quality dyes and lightfastness." "The unique beauty of the colours, their specific characteristics and their use on the painters palette will give you the privilege to rediscover and to work with a range of rare and distinguished organic colours produced with care by the artisan Anne-Sylvie Godeau."
Lake paint pigments made from plants, there are no Color Index names on the website, but most of these would fall into the "Natural Pigment" Color Index category, NP.
Lutea’s Extra Fine Plant-based Watercolours & Pigments (Web)
Lutea’s Extra Fine Plant-based Watercolours at Jackson's Art affiliate link (Web)
Maimeri: Art Brands Top^
Artist paints made in Italy since 1923. Except where noted, these links take you to their web site where C.I. names are available by clicking on the color swatches.
Full Catalog 2017 (PDF)
Maimeri Puro Oil Colors | Artisti Oil Colors | Classico Oil Colors | Italian Natural Earth Oil Colors - Terre Grezze D'Italia
Mediterraneo Oil Colors | Olio HD
Maimeri Blu Watercolor | Venezia Watercolor
Maimeri Gouache Colours | Tempera Fine Gouache Colours
Brera Extra Fine Acrylics | Maimeri Acrilico Acrylic Colours | PolyFluid Fluid Acrylics | One Acrylics
Polycolor Body Acrylic Modeling Paste | Polycolor Reflect Tints | Polycolor Fine Vinyl Colours
Restauro varnish colours
Maimeri Pure Pigments Powders (Web), (2012 PDF)
Artist Pastels | Classico Oil Pastels
Decorative Arts (Idea Stoffa Fabric Paints, Idea Glass Relief Colours, Idea Glass Colors and Effect colors)
Discontinued Paints and Pigments:
Polycolor pastels discontinued (2010 JPG)
Polycolor 3D discontinued (Old JPG)
Rinascimento Oil colors discontinued (2014 PDF)
Maimeri Olio discontinued (2010 PDF)
Matisse, Derivan (Derivan Matisse): Art Brands Top^
Australian maker of artists' acrylics.
Mattsse Structure & Flow Artist Acrylics Color Chart (PDF)
Matisse Acrylics Technical Guide (PDF)
MSDS entire Range (webpage with PDFs}
M. Graham: Art Brands Top^
Made in the USA, M. Graham specializes in traditional hand-crafted paint made with the "historic natural bases of walnut oil and honey." The web will take you to their web site where C.I. names are available. CI names are also on the PDF.
M. Graham Oil Paints (Web), (PDF) | MSDS
Watercolor (Web), (PDF) | MSDS
Acrylic (Web), (PDF) | MSDS
Gouache (Web), (PDF) | MSDS
Master Pigments: Art Brands Top^
A US maker of natural pigments & oil paint made from scratch using raw minerals and ore in the way of the old masters.
Including rare mineral pigments like Lapis Lazuli Fra Angelico blue, Ultramarine Ash, Volkonskoite, Chrysocolla and Vivianite (Blue Ochre). They don't indicate any Color Index names, but it would be easy to deduce them from the minerals used. You can watch how the pigments are made on the Master Pigments YouTube Channel (Web)
Attila Gazo Pigments (Web) | Via Gaza Oil Paints (Web)
Michael Harding: Art Brands Top^
UK maker of handmade oil paints with a high pigment load.
Michael Harding Color Chart (Web), New Colors (Web), (2017 PDF), (2010 PDF for historical purposes only)
Paint Tech Specs (2015 PDF) | Addendum Pigment/Paint List (2012 PDF archive only)
Mijello: Art Brands Top^
Aged Korean watercolors. "South Korean artist Minjin Seo designed and patented a wide range of unique and innovative artists' palettes and her signature watercolor, Mission Gold, under the Mijello line of products. Mijello™ introduced Mission Gold Watercolors to the Korean and U.S. markets in 2012." "In 2018 Mijello and Chartpak entered a partnership that brought this brand of watercolor products, previously under exclusive North American Distribution by Martin F. Weber, to Chartpak, Inc."
Mijello™ Mission Gold Watercolors (Web) (JPG) | MSDS
Mijello™ Mission Gold Watercolors at Jackson's Art (Web)
Mont Marte: Art Brands Top^
You can get more info & MSDS sheets on the artist quality paints and products by
selecting the specific paint image, Colour Index pigment info is downloadable on the products detail page, or in the PDFs' linked here.
Full Mont Marte Catalog (E-Book)
Professional Series Oil Paints (Web), (2015 PDF)
H20 Water mixable oil paints (Web), (2015 PDF), not related to the discontinued Van Gogh H2oil paints.
Dimension Heavy Bodied Acrylic (Web), (PDF) | Satin Acrylic (Web), (PDF)
Natural Earth Paints: Art Brands Top^
Small retailer of non-toxic pigments and paint making kits based in Ashland, Oregon, US. "Founded in 2011 by professional artist, mom and environmentalist, Leah Fanning."- "Right from the start she wanted to focus on eco-friendly and completely non-toxic art supplies and very high quality archival products. She is committed to an eco-friendly business model as reflected by their prestigious 'Gold' certification from Green America - the highest rank for a green business. " They use 100% recycled packaging, biodegradable plastic bags and recyclable glass bottles. The one color chart they show has all the available colors and includes Color Index pigment information.
Individual Pigment Packets (Web), (Color Chart JPG)
Bulk Pigments (Web)
Eco-Solve Paint Thinner (Web) Soy-based and vegan oil paint thinner & brush cleaner
Natural Pigments: Art Brands Top^
Pigment and paint manufacturer & supplier based in the USA, with a large range of natural & synthetic pigments from all over the world. Specializes in historic pigments. These links take you to their web site where C.I. names are available by clicking on the color swatches/pigment images. They provide interesting details and pigment historical information too. MSDS sheets also available.
Dry Pigment Powders:
Dry Pigments for Oil Paints (Web)
Oil Paints:
Rublev Colours Artists' Oils (Web), (Full line JPG Web)
Armenian Artist Oils (Web)
Oil Mediums/Binders & Additives (Web)
Watercolors:
Rublev Colours Artist Watercolors | Watercolor Mediums/Binders & Additives (Web)
Ceracolors Water-Soluble Wax-Based Encaustic Paints (Web), MSDS
Old Holland: Art Brands Top^
Respected paint makers, located in the Netherlands, still make oil colours using the traditional recipes and the production process used by the Old Dutch masters. Web links take you to their web site where most C.I. names are available by selecting the color swatches.
Classic Oil Colours (Web), (Color Chart PDF**), Oil drying Times with CI Info (PDF), MSDS
Classic Watercolour (Web), Color Chart (PDF**), (2004 PDF)
New Masters Classic Acrylic (Web), (Color Chart PDF)
Classic Pigments (Web**), (Classic & Ancient List PDF**) | Ancient Pigments Web**)
All MSDS (SDS, SIS) PDFs
** No pigment color index names
Misc.:
Old Holland Oil Paints, Watercolors, Acrylics & Pigments at Blick Art Materials (affiliate link)
has CI names and MSDS sheets for every color.
Pebeo: Art Brands Top^
French Company founded in 1919.
Full Catalog (Current E-Book), (Full Catalog 2014 PDF for historic reference only)
Oil Paints:
Huile d'Art super fine oil Color Chart (PDF), (Paint information PDF) |
Studio Fine XL Oils (PDF), (Paint information PDF)
Watercolors:
Fine Watercolours (PDF**). (Paint information PDF)
Acrylics:
Extra fine Artist's Acrylic (PDF), (Paint Information PDF)
Studio High Viscosity Acrylic Paint PDF, (Paint Information Studio HV & Fluid PDF)
Mat Pub Extra Matte Fluid Acrylic (PDF), (Paint Information PDF)
Pebeos T7 Extra Fine Gouache (PDF), (Paint Information PDF)
Studio Acrylic Gouache (PDF**), (Paint information PDF**)
Artist Acrylic Liquid Pigmented Acrylic Ink (PDF), (Pigmented Ink information PDF)
Misc.:
4Artist Pigmented Markers (PDF**), (Pigmented Marker Information w/ CI names PDF)
Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) Request Pebeo has you request a SDS on their site.
Blick Art Materials has MSDS sheets for all Pebeo Products they carry, Select the product, and on the right hand side there is a MSDS (SDS, SIS) link for that paint or product. (Pebeo at Blick Art - affiliate link)
** Means there are no pigment color index names on the web or in the PDF
Discontinued Paints and Pigments: PDF files are for historic reference only.
Fragonard Aquarelle extra fine watercolour discontinued (2014 PDF)
Fragonard Extra Fine Oil Paints discontinued (2014 PDF), (Still available as of 2018 at Blick Art - affiliate link)
Fragonard Pigments discontinued (2014 PDF)
Pfeiffer Art Supply. Art Brands Top^
Truely handmade watercolor paints made in the San Diego California area.
They state: "Pfeiffer Art Supply began with wanting to craft pure, vibrant, non-toxic pigments and other natural ingredients such as: organic honey, a natural preservative, and gum arabic into beautiful, buttery watercolor pans of paint.", "The pigments are all mulled by hand on a glass slab. Also, each paint is poured by hand into their half or whole sized pans. Each color takes about a week from start to finish to create and no two will look "perfect" or alike. It is normal for some cracking to appear." All their colors are named after birds.
On their site,
Color Index names can be found by selecting the watercolor hue image, but CI names are visable on the most of the handpainted swatches in the product photos.
Handmade Watercolor Pans (Web)
Handmade Watercolor in Tubes (Web)
QoR Modern Watercolors: Art Brands Top^
Made by Golden in the US.
"The exceptional color strength of QoR Watercolor is achieved through the use of a unique binder called Aquazol®. Conservators have been using Aquazol since the early 1990's as an adhesive, consolidant, and inpainting medium. The properties that make it ideal for use in conservation also make it a great binder for watercolor paint. It is highly soluble in water and remains resoluble over time. It remains stable after accelerated light aging tests with no significant change in color, and it is very safe to work with. Aquazol can hold much greater amounts of pigment than the same amount of gum Arabic, while retaining a strong and flexible paint film."
On the website CI names can be found by selecting the color swatches to open detailed information.
QoR Modern Watercolors (Web), (Color list w/ CI names), MSDS/SDS (PDF)
QoR Modern Watercolors at Blick Art Materials (affiliate link) has CI names and MSDS sheets for every color.
R&F Handmade Paints: Art Brands Top^
R&F Handmade Paints are made in NY, USA. One of the only ready-made manufacturers of encaustic wax paints. Their line includes professional quality handmade encaustics and Pigment Sticks® a unique richly pigmented oil stick.
These links below take you to their web site where C.I. names are available by clicking on the color patches. Both the pigments sticks and Encaustic paints are on one chart that includes color index information.
Encautic Paints (Web) | Pigment Sticks® oil sticks (Web)
Pigment Oil Sticks and Encaustic Paints (interactive color chart Web), (Color Chart Web), (PDF)
Pigment Stick MSDS (PDF) | Encaustic MSDS (PDF)
Redwood Willow: Art Brands Top^
A small company in the US, creating artist grade paint by hand. They "begin by making a variety of binders that work perfectly for each individual pigment. Each color is then lovingly created using traditional tools - a glass muller and granite slab - to properly disperse the pigment into the binder. The liquid paint is then added in 4 layers allowing the paint to dry completely, ensuring the pan is filled to the brim."
They must be good, because they're always sold out...
Color Index Names are found by clicking the paint image.
RedwoodWillow Watercolor Half Pans (Web)
Renesans: Art Brands Top^
Polish Company. "The professional range of Renesans paints offers high quality at a reasonable price. Thanks to the application of refined linseed oil and saffron oil in whites and careful selection of European and American pigments."
Oils-for-Art oilpaint (Web) | Extra Renesans oil paint (Web) inorganic pigments and with high quality saffron oil;
Extra Fine Watercolours (Web) | Liquarel liquid watercolours (Web) Colour Chart only, no CI names
Colour Acrylic matte paints (web) | Maxi Acril gloss acrylic paint (Web)
A’KRYL semi-matte colours (Web) | Flow Acryl acrylic paints (Web)
Gwasz Gouache (Web) | Tempera One paints (Web)
Artistic Renesans Extra Soft handmade pastels (Web**) | Renesans Astists' Oil Pastels (Web**)
Screen Printing Inks (Web) | Tusz China drawing Indian Inks (Web**) | Pen Arcyic Inks (Web**)
Paint Color for Professional Restoration (Web)
Dry Pigments (Web)
** indicates that no C.I. Pigment names are found in that specific color chart or file
RGH Artists' Oil Paints: Art Brands Top^
US company, founded in 1989, offering affordable professional grade artist oil paints & pigments for more than 25 years with over 140 colors. On their website, current paint information & Color Index Names are available by clicking on the color hue images.
RGH Oil Paints (Web) | Dry Powdered Pigments (Web)
Old 2008 Technical Specs (PDF) for historical information only, listed colors may not match their current line or include new colors added to the line.
Richeson (Jack Richeson & Co., Inc.): Online Catalog: Art Brands Top^
US based distributer and manufacturer of many lines of art materials. They do not sell directly to the public, but distribute or wholesale their brands to US art supply retailers. Most of the PDF files linked here do not have color index names, except the Richeson/Shiva Oils & Quiller Watercolors.
Their full catalog here (PDF in E-Book form), (2016 PDF), Catalog Addendum (PDF) has color index names for Richeson Oils and Steven Quiller Watercolors
Richeson Artist Oils Shiva series (Web), Color Chart with CI (PDF), MSDS
Richeson Casein Color Chart no CI (PDF)
Quiller Watercolor Color Chart (Web), (PDF w/ CI pigment names)
Quiller Acrylics Colors (Web) (2006 PDF w/CI)
Shiva PaintStik Color Chart (Web), (2012 PDF**)
Made In Russia and distrubted in the US, by Jack Richson & Co.:
St. Pertersburg Yarka White Knights Extra Fine Artist's Watercolour pans (Web), MSDS (PDF)
St. Petersburg Yarka Color Chart for historical reference only (2015 JPG)
Discontinued:
Daniel Greene Professional Artits' Oils discontinued (appears to be discontinued, I couldn't find any info, let me know if anyone has an old color chart so I can post it for historic purposes)
Robertson (C. Roberson and Co.): Art Brands Top^
"English Manufacturers and suppliers to the trade of fine art materials, started in 1810 in London." "Roberson was one of the most important colourmen in London. Among its customers were artists such as Turner, Whistler and Sargent, designers such as William Morris, William de Morgan and Walter Crane and the royal and famous including Queen Victoria, Lady Randolph Churchill and Winston Churchill." Roberson moved to its present location in Holloway in 1987. Their products are still made in the UK with many made to original 19th Century formulations and recipes.
Robertson's downloadable E-Catalog is for product information only, does not have current pricing. (2014/2015 e-Catalog) - curiously, the catalog only only has CI names for their 'Charles' oil paint line & Pigments' but not for their top of the line brand paint.
Roberson Oil Colours Proffesional Artst paint (p. 18 Refer to the e-Catalog Above**)
Roberson ‘Charles’ Oil Colours (p.20 Refer to the e-Catalog Above)
Dry Pigments (p.22 Refer to the e-Catalog Above)
** no Colour Index Names for that specific series of paint.
Royal Talens: Art Brands Top^
Made in the Netherlands, Talen’s manufactures and supplies high quality painting, drawing and colouring materials for artists, creative hobbyists, designers, children and educational institutes, with well known brands like Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Amsterdam, Cobra, Bruynzeel and Sakura. In 1949 Queen Wilhelmina, an avid painter, made Talens Royal.
Current Full Catalog on issuu.com (E-book) can download the PDF from there.
Color Booklet - A guide to colour and colour mixing (PDF)
Rembrandt Series Pro Quality:
Rembrandt Artists’ Quality Oil Paints (Full Leaflet PDF), (Single pigment mono brochure PDF), (Color Chart PDF)
Rembrandt Artists’ Quality Extra Fine Watercolour Paints (Full Leaflet PDF), (Color Chart PDF)
Rembrandt Acrylic Paint (Full Leaflet PDF), (Color Chart PDF)
Rembrandt Artists’ Quality Extra Fine Soft and Carré Pastels (Full Leaflet PDF), (Color Chart PDF)
Water Mixable Oils:
Cobra Water Soluble Oils (Full Leaflet PDF), (Color Chart PDF) | Cobra Study WS Oils (Leaflet PDF), (Color Chart PDF)
Van Gogh Series:
Van Gogh Oil Paints (Full Leaflet PDF), (Color Chart PDF)
Van Gogh Watercolor Paint (Full Leaflet PDF), (Color Chart PDF)
Van Gogh Acrylic Paint (Full Leaflet PDF), (Color Chart PDF)
Van Gogh Soft Pastels (Full Leaflet PDF), (Color Chart PDF)
Van Gogh Oil Pastels (Color Chart)
Gouache Extra Fine Quality (Color Chart PDF)
Amsterdam Series Standard Paints:
Amsterdam Expert Acrylic Paints (Full Leaflet PDF), (Color Chart PDF)
Amsterdam Standard Series Acrylic Paint (Full Leaflet PDF), (Color Chart PDF), (Amsterdam Special Series PDF)
Amsterdam Acrylic Pigmented Inks (Full Leaflet PDF), (Color Chart PDF)
Amsterdam Pigmented Markers (Full Leaflet PDF), (Color Chart PDF)
Amsterdam Spray Paint (Full Brochure PDF), (Color Chart PDF)
Talens Art Creation Series Student Colors:
Talens Art Creation Oils (Full Leaflet PDF), (Color Chart PDF)
Talens Art Creation Watercolours (Full Leaflet PDF), (Color Chart PDF)
Talens Art Creation Acrylics (Full Leaflet PDF), (Color Chart PDF)
Talens Art Creation Gouache (Full Leaflet PDF)
Talens Art Creation Soft Pastels (Full Leaflet PDF)
Talens Art Creation Water Soluble Oil Pastels (Full Leaflet PDF)
MSDS (SDS, SIS) Safety Information:
MSDS (SDS,SIS) Safety Sheets (Web)
Discontinued Paints and Pigments: provided for historic art information only.
Amsterdam Oil Paints discontinued (old Color Chart JPG)
Van Gogh H2Oil (H2Oil) discontinued (old 2016 Color Chart w/ CI PDF)
Misc.:
Rembrandt Oils, Watercolors, Acrylics and Pastels at Blick Art Materials afflillate link (Web)
Van Gogh Oils, Watercolors, and Pastels at Blick Art Materials afflillate link (Web)
SAA (The Society for All Artists): Art Brands Top^
The SAA is an artists' membership organization with over 43,000 members based in the UK,
they have some private label brands of paints under the SAA name. Colour Index pigment info can be found by clicking on the individual color swatches and the clicking the "Read More" link in the product description.
SAA Oil Paints (Web)
SAA Watercolour Paints (Web)
SAA Acrylic Paints (Web)
Schmincke: Art Brands Top^
Made in Germany, Schmincke's goal is "making and providing the very best finest artists' colours for demanding artists". Established in 1881, Schmincke entered a partnership with Chartpak, Inc. in 2009.
Full color brochures have Colour Index Names, colour charts and
paint information. The colour charts only have paint color swatches, the brochures have C.I. Names and other paint information.
Oil Paints:
Mussini Oil Colors Finest Artist Resin Oil Color (Web ), (Brochure w/ Color Chart PDF), (Color Chart only PDF)
Norma ® Professional Finest Oil Colors (Web), (Brochure w/ Color Chart PDF), (Color Chart only PDF)
AKADEMIE® Fine artists Oil Color (Web), (Brochure w/ Color Chart PDF), (Color Chart only PDF)
Watercolors:
HORADAM ® AQUARELL Finest Artists' watercolours (Web), (Brochure w/ Color Chart PDF), (Color Chart only PDF)
AKADEMIE® Aquarell Fine Artists' watercolours (Web), (Brochure w/ Color Chart PDF), (Color Chart only PDF)
Acrylic Paint:
PRIMAcry and PRIMAcry Fluid Finest Artist Acrylic Colors (Web), (Brochure w/ Color Chart PDF), (Color Chart only PDF)
AKADEMIE® Fine Artists' Acrylics (Web), (Brochure w/ Color Chart PDF), (Color Chart only PDF)
AERO COLOR® Professional Liquid acrylic colours (Web), (Brochure w/ Color Chart PDF), (Color Chart only PDF)
Gouache:
HORADAM ® Finest artists' gouache colours (Web), (Color Chart only PDF)
Designers' Gouache (Web), (Color Chart only PDF)
HORADAM ® Finest artists' gouache colours & DESIGNERS’ GOUACHE full color Brochure (PDF)
AKADEMIE® Fine Artists' Gouache (Web), (Brochure w/ Color Chart PDF), (Color Chart only PDF)
Finest Artists’ Calligraphy Gouache (Web), (Brochure w/ Color Chart PDF), (Color Chart only PDF)
Airbrush Colors:
AERO COLOR® Professional Airbrush Colors (Web), (Brochure w/ Colour Charts PDF), (Downloads Web)
Pigments:
Pure artists’ pigments (Web), (Brochure w/ Colour Charts PDF)
Genuine Artists' Bronzes - metallic bronze and aluminium pigments (Web), (Brochure PDF)
Printing Inks:
aqua LINOPRINT Colours (Web), (Brochure w/ Colour Chart PDF)
See below for College® Linol Ink
College® Student Paints:
College® series student Oil Paints( Web), (Color Chart PDF)
College® series student Acrylic Paints( Web), (Color Chart PDF)
College® series Linol litho print Inks ( Web), (Brochure all College Series w/ color charts PDF)
Health & Safety:
MSDS (SDS, SIS) Safety Sheets, all downloads (Web)
Technical Data Sheets Downloads (Web)
Misc.:
Schmincke products at Blick Art Materials afflillate link (Web)
Sennelier: Art Brands Top^
Sennelier began in Paris, France in 1887, "it has been making highly pigmented paints with high intensity, permanence, and lightfastness ever since". Finest Artist Oils have a heavier body and are made with Safflower oil.
Oil Paints:
Sennelier Finest Artist Oil Colors (Web), (Color Chart PDF), Oil additives (PDF)
Rives Fine Artists' Oil Gouache (Web), (Brochure PDF), (Color Chart PDF)
Oil Sticks (Web), (Oil Sticks Brochure PDF)
Watercolour Paints:
L'Aquarelle French Artists' Honey Based Watercolours Tubes & Pans (Web), (Brochure PDF), (Color Chart PDF)
Acrylic Paints:
Artist Quality Extra Fine Heavy Body Acrylics (Web), (Brochure PDF) could only find in French, has CI names.
Abstract® Innovative Heavy Body Mixed Media Acryics (Web), (Brochure PDF)
Gouache & Egg Tempera:
Gouache Extra Fine & Sennelier Artists' Egg Tempera (Web), (Leaflet Gouache PDF), (Leaflet Egg Tempera PDF)
Pastels:
Soft Pastels Color Chart (PDF**)
Oil Pastels (Web), (Brochure PDF)
Dry Pigments:
Pure Pigments (Web), (English Brochure w/ binders & additives PDF), (Colourchart & Pigment list Brochure PDF)
Inks:
Sennelier inks & Indian Inks (Web), (Color Chart PDF**)
** Color chart only, no Color Index or pigment information
Misc.:
Sennelier products at Blick Art Materials afflillate link (Web)
Discontinued products:
Schira Porcelain Paints & Powders (PDF**) for historic reference only
Etude Student Oil Colors discontinued (PDF) for historic reference only
ShinHan Art Materials: Art Brands Top^
Shinhan Art was originally founded in South Korea by Rin Han as “Haneel” in 1967, in 1973, they changed the name to Shinhan. Their professional paints are "renowned the world over for excellence in quality." All PDFs' have C.I. information.
Current Catalog (PDF), Brochure Page (Web)
Shinhan Professional Artists' Oil Color (PDF)
Shinhan SWC Premium Extra Fine Water Color (PDF)
Shinhan Professional Korean Water Color (PDF)
Shinhan PASS Hybred Watercolor & Gouache (PDF)
Shinhan Professional Acrylic Color (PDF)
Shinhan Poster Colors (PDF)
All MSDS sheets as downloadable PDFs' (Web)
Misc.:
2014 Catalog (PDF) for historal research only
Shin Han Professional Oils at Jackson's affiliate link (Web)
Shin Han SWC Premium Extra Fine Artstists' Watercolor at Jackson's affiliate link (Web)
Shin Han Special Watercolors at Jackson's affiliate link (Web)
Shin Han PASS Hybred Watercolor & Gouache at Jackson's affiliate link (Web)
Sinopia Pigments: Art Brands Top^
Made in San Francisco, CA USA. Sinopia has one of the largest selection of high quality pigments in the United States. They also make a unique Artisan Milk Paint. This link goes to their web site where some color index names can be found for some items, not all of the pigments have CI names indicated and some colors are pigment mixes.
Pigments (Web)
St. Petersburg - by Nevskaya Palitra, - aka. Yarka St. Petersburg, Leningrad, White Knights: Art Brands Top^
Made in Russia by Nevskaya Palitra since 1934, distributed in the US by Jack Richeson & Co., Inc. I listed these under the St. Petersburg name as practically no one, at least in the US, have ever heard of Nevskaya Palitra. St. Petersburg was formally known in the U.S.S.R as Leningrad. Usually sold in the US under the brand names Yarka, St. Petersburg, and White Nights, and also Jack Richeson, they are high quality artist watercolors in pans & half pans. Yarka, Leningrad, St. Petersburg, and White Nights watercolours are the same, just different box designs and target markets. Nevskaya Palitra also has lines of artist oil and acrylic paints, along with some student grades. I'll include here some of the other brands made by Nevskaya Palitra here. CI names are on their site.
Master Class Extra Fine Artists' Oil Colors (Web)
White Knights Extra Fine Artist's Watercolour pans (Web) MSDS (PDF)
Sonnet Studio Acrylic, Oil & Watercolor paints (all on same page Web), WC Color Chart (JPG), Oil Paint CC (JPG)
Ladoga artistic student acrylic paints (Web)
Richeson St. Petersburg White Knights Pans at Blick Art Materials afflillate link (Web)
The Stoneground Paint Co.
A small manufacturer of handmade watercolors in Saskatchewan, Canada. Their paints are available
online or in some local shops in Canada, they do not appear to sell internationally at this time, but may in the future. From their website: "Each pigment is bound within a unique combination of the highest-grade gum arabic and locally sourced organic honey. Stoneground's watercolour paints are made in small batches. We do not use any fillers or extenders in our paint in order to keep our colours as pure as possible." C.I. pigment information is avalible for most colours on the website by selecting the specific colour swatch to bring up details, you may have to scroll down a bit ato find the CI names. They have individual pans and also offer a number of pre-made of custom palettes.
Stoneground Watercolour Pans (Web)
Triangle Coatings (Corp. Website): Triangle cCoatings Online Store Art Brands Top^
Canadian Triangle Coatings’ business began in 1932 as a small, regional paint manufacturer. They offer immediate access to chemical information and technical advice. Triangle Coatings, Inc. offers a full line of Architectural & Decorative Paints, Oil Paints, Concrete Sealers, Industrial Maintenance Coatings, OEM Product Finishes, and Government Specification Coatings. CI names can be found on the website by selecting the specific color swatch for more information.
Danacolors CLASSIC Artist Oils™ (Web)
Black, White, Neutral | Yellow, Orange, Red | Violet, Blue, Green | Earth Tones
Technical Data Sheet (PDF) | MSDS (PDF) for carbon black only?
Tri-Art: Art Brands Top^
A Canadian manufacturer distributed in the U.S.A. by Jack Richeson & Co. Inc. Tri-Art Mfg. is a family run company that started producing artists' acrylic paint as an off-shoot to an art supply store and gallery in Kingston called Art Noise. The family of products has grown to include acrylic, oil, ink, airbrush, watercolour tempera and specialty paint lines for the professional to the beginner painters, visual designers and artisans.
CI names are available on the website by clicking on the "Composition of colors" to get to the paint composition pages.
Oil Colors:
Finest Quality Professional Oil Colours (Web) - (Color Swatches) - (Paint Composition)
Water Colors:
Finest Quality Professional Watercolours (Web) - (Color Swatches) - (Paint Composition)
Acrylic Colors:
High Viscosity Professional Acrylic (Web) - (Color Swatches) - (Paint Composition)
Finest Quality Professional Liquid Acrylics (Web) - (Color Swatches) - (Color Composition)
True Colour Acrylics (web) - (Color Swatches) - (Color Composition)
Rheotech Acrylics (Web) - (Color Swatches) - (Color Composition)
Tri-Art Professional Liquid Acrylic Pigmented Inks (Web) - (Color Swatches) - (Ink Composition)
Misc.:
MSDS sheets for all products (Web)
Full Catalog with Color Charts but no CI names or numbers (PDF)
Turner Colour Works: Art Brands Top^
A Japanese company established in 1946. Manufactures an Artists' water color line that includes the new Mayan colors, and acrylic Gouache.
Artsts' Water Colour (PDF) | Design Gouache (PDF) (Web) | Turner Acryl (Acrylic) Gouache (PDF)
Turner Neo-colors (PDF)
Misc.:
Turner Artists' Watercolors at Jackson's Art affiliate link (Web)
UMTOM BARVY: Art Brands Top^
Czech Manufacturer. After the fall of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia in 1989, the developing democracy in Czechoslovakia enabled the business to go private to the hands of a company employee. After the dissolution of Czechoslovakia and foundation of the Czech Republic the legal status of the DÍLO product trademark became uncertain, therefore in 1996 the company changed it's name to UMTON BARVY and since that time all it's products (artistic oil and water colours, designer gouaches and preparations for artistic painting) have borne this name.
Appears to be unavailable is the US. The website includes Colour Index Names on it's colour charts
Finest Artistic Oil Colours (Web)
Artistic Water-colours (Web)
Artistic Designer Gouache (Web)
Utrecht: Art Brands Top^
Utrecht in the USA, manufactures it's own line of art materials, including artist canvases, artist grade papers, and professional artists' paints. It also retails many other professional artists' brands of art materials. These links take you to their web site where C.I. names are available by
clicking on the color chip links ot quick view buttons. CI names are also available in the MSDS PDF files. MSDS Sheets Here. Artiscreation.com is affiliated with Utercht and and you can help support this site by purchasing art materials through these links:
Deals & Free offers (Web), Clearance Items (Web).
Oil Paints:
Utrecht Professional Artists' Oil Paint (Web), MSDS (PDF with CI names)
Utrecht Studio Series Oil Paint (Web), MSDS (PDF with CI names)
Watercolors:
Utrecht Astists' Watercolor (Web), MSDS (PDF with CI names)
Acrylics:
Utrecht Artists' Acrylic Paints (Web), MSDS (PDF with CI names)
Utrecht Artists' Fluid Acrylics uses same pigments as Artists' Acrylic paints (Web**), MSDS (PDF w/ C.I. names)
Utrecht Studio Acrylics, uses same pigments as Artists' grade Acrylic paints (Web**), MSDS (PDF w/ C.I. names)
Gouache:
Utrecht Designer Gouche (Web**), MSDS (PDF w/ CI Names)
Discontinued products & Miscellaneous Products:
Utrecht Pure Pigments discontinued MSDS (PDF w/ CI names) for historical reference
Utrecht Canvases discontinued (Web) | Utrecht Drawing papers discontinued (Web)
only a few Utrecht Canvases and drawing papers left on clearance (06/13/18).
All MSDS Sheets
** means link has no CI names available
Vasari Classic Artists' Oil Colors: Art Brands Top^
Handcrafted oil colors made in NY, USA. Their line of colors of includes the traditional colors that have been the staple of artists over time, but they’ve also taken the classic paintmaking techniques of the old masters and brought them into the 21st century with the addition of modern pigments.
In addition, they have some proprietary colors & pigment combinations exclusive to Vasari Classic Artists’ Oil Colors and not available from other makers. Vasari is now listing color index numbers on their website, click on the details button under the color swatches.
Artist Oil Colors all (Web)
Oil Paint Color collection links:
Yellow & Orange | Cadmiums | Red & Violet | Cobalts | Blue | Green
Earth Colors, New Earh Color selections | Mars & Antiquity | Grays | Black & White
MIsc:
Here is a link (for historical purposes only) to an old 2005 price list that included CI Pigment names, it may not include any or all of the pigments in the current product line, the prices in this document are absolutely no longer valid.
Wallace Seymour (formerly Pip Seymour): Art Brands Top^
Rebecca Wallace and Pip Seymour formed the UK company Pip Seymour fine art products in 2011. "We looked at long forgotten colours, alongside ancient and modern pigments to create colour palettes to suit the needs of the most progressive and challenging artists". They have some interesting sets & paints using rare old pigments. Some of their watercolors are made with gum arabic & gum tragancanth and may need to be activated with warm water or let soak a bit. Well known in the UK & Europe, but hard to get in the Americas. They do not sell direct to artists - "our vision is to support the independent retailers".
Colour Index Pigment information is available for Oils & Acrylics on their website but for some reason they do not indicate the watercolour pigments, instead they ask you to refer to' The Artist's Handbook by Pip Seymour'. They appear to have exclusive kits, paints & and pigments available with certain art supply distributors such as Turners Art Materials in the UK, and Pigment Lab in Australia. Turners will ship to the Americas if you e-mail them, Pigment Lab appears to ship internationally to the US and other countries. Turners has some PDF color charts available, but they don't include pigment info.
Some handmade colour swatches with CI pigment info available on Jane Blundell's Blog (Web)
Seymore (formally Pip Seymour) Artist Oil Colours (Web),
Seymore (formally Pip Seymour) Watercolours (Web - Colors only**),
Wallace Seymour Acrylic Colours - Extra Fine (Web)
Turners Art Materials exclusive colours:
Wallace Seymour Bespoke (custom) oil paints (Web**)
Wallace Seymour Vintage Watercolours (Web**, (Color Chart PDF**)
Wallace Seymour Early Historic Watercolour Pans (Historic names only, Web**),
Wallace Seymour 18th Century Watercolour Sets (Historic names only, Web**),
Pigment Lab:
Wallace Seymour Products (Web**)
** means no CI pigment names
Weber (Martin F. Weber Co.): Art Brands Top^
US maker and distributer of art materials and paints, doesn't sell directly to the public. Bob Ross paints are distributed in the EU by Lukas, not sure if Lukas makes them for that market or not. The website has CI names for most of their line, except Permalba & Bob Ross. I have made a list of the Bob Ross Colors, I could not find any pigment info on the Bob Ross site or Weber's, so I compiled this myself from Bob Ross colors I own and may be out of date.
Permalba® Oil Colors, color chart only, no CI (Web), CI pigment info for Permalba is on the Blick Art affiliate link (Web)
wOil® Water Mixable Oil Paints w/ CI (Web), (old 2013 PDF)
Prima Acrylic (Web) | Prima-Flo Acrylic (Web) | Prima Oils (Web)
Bob Ross Oil Colors | Bob Ross Soft Landscape Oil Colors | Bob Ross Soft Oil Floral Colors
Bob Ross Oil Colors at Blick Art Materials affiliate link (Web)
Williamsburg Handmade Oils: Art Brands Top^
Williamsburg Oils began in the mid-eighties in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York USA. Williamsburg Handmade Oil Colors was acquired by Golden Artist Colors after the death of founder and artist Carl Plansky in 2009. Williamsburg is known for its quality and extensive palette of colors including genuine Italian Earth Colors. Since joining the Golden Artist Colors family, the palette has expanded to include French Earth Colors and a range of colors made with Safflower Oil, as well as special edition and custom colors. These links take you to their web site where C.I. names are available. Hover over the swatches and wait a couple seconds to get Color Index names and other pigment info.
Oil Paints | Dry Pigments | List or all the pigments in their line without color swatches | MSDS
Misc.:
Williamsburg Handmade Oil Colors at Blick Art Materials affiliate link (Web)
Williamsburg Pigments at Blick Art Materials affillite link (Web)
Winsor & Newton: Art Brands Top^
A world renouned brand of art materials, founded in 1832 in London, England by William Winsor and Henry Newton. The firm was originally located at Henry Newton's home. A few months before his death, Henry Newton sold the business to the newly incorporated firm of "Winsor & Newton Ltd.", which included members of both families amongst the shareholders.
Winsor & Newton were granted its first Royal Warrant by Queen Victoria in 1841, and have received that endorsement ever since. Today Winsor & Newton remains by Appointment to HRH the Prince of Wales, and may display The Prince of Wales’s coat of arms.
In 1990, Winsor & Newton was bought by AB Wilh. Becker, a subsidiary of Lindéngruppen - a privately held company based in Höganäs, Sweden. W & N was then put in the hands of Colart (the art materials segment of AB Wilh. Becker) in 1992.
These links will take you to the web site where color index names and other pigment information is available by selecting the specific color swatch. The technical specifications are on a sperate page on composition and light fastness and some of the Leaflet PDF files.
W&N Oil Colors:
Artist Oil Colours (Web), Composition & Permeance (Web), Color Chart (PDF), Leaflet (PDF)
Winton Oil Colours (Web), Composition & Permeance (Web), Color Chart (PDF**)
Artisan Water Mixable Oil Colors (Web), Composition & Permeance (Web), Color Chart (PDF**), Leaflet (PDF)
Griffin Alkyd Fast Drying Oil Paints (Web), Composition & Permeance (Web), Color Chart (PDF**), Leaflet (PDF)
Artist's Oil Bar (Web), Composition & Permeance (Web), Color Chart (PDF**)
W&N Watercolours:
Professional Artist Water Colours (Web), Composition & Permeance (Web), Color Chart (PDF**), Leaflet (PDF) (alt.)
(Watercolor 1910 Color Chart JPG**)
Professional Artist Watercolour Sticks (Web), Color Chart (PDF**)
Cotman Watercolours (Web), Composition & Permeance (Web), Color Chart (PDF**)
Designers' Gouache (Web), Composition & Permeance (Web), Color Chart (PDF**), Leaflet (PDF)
W&N Acrylics:
Professional Artist Acrylic Colours (Web), Composition & Permeance (Web), Color Chart (PDF**), Leaflet (PDF)
Galeria Acrylics (Web), Composition & Permeance (Web), Color Chart (PDF**), 2008 Leaflet (PDF*)
MSDS, SDS, SIS Sheets:
All MSDS Sheets
* means old leaflet/color chart, may not be representative of current line.
** means no CI names in chart,
Discontinued Products (links are for historical reference only):
W&N London Watercolors (70's/early 80's) discontinued, rebranded to the Cotman line
Finity Slow Dry Acrylics discontinued Leaflet (PDF*)
Artists' Soft Pastels discontinued Brochure (PDF in Dutch, w/ CI Names*), Color Chart (PDF**), MSDS (PDF)
Misc.:
Winsor & Newton at Blick Art Materials afflillate link (Web)
Zecchi - Colori - Belle Arti: Art Brands Top^
Art Supplier in Florence, Italy. "Studio Fiorentino, the first University of Florence (dated 1348) that gave the street its current name. The paint store - located in this street for centuries - has always been an important reference point for Florentine artisans and painters." "Zecchi - which took over the business in the fifties - based on the Cennino Cennini’s treatise I Libro Dell’Arte, has succeeded in finding, reviving or reproducing all the colours and materials used by pre-Renaissance and Renaissance painters. The major Florentine works of art - but also some of the most important international art masterpieces - have been restored with the help of Zecchi’s products." Their paints are very hard to find in the US.
I could find only a few color charts, and could not find any color charts that included CI Pigment names, although they
do have some traditional pigment names, there is no way to tell in the "hue" colors what pigments are in the paint. Maybe they're in Cennino Cennini’s treatise?....I guess they really believe in that "old world" stuff.
Zecchi "Firenze 1915" Artists' Oil Colours (Web)
Special series oil colours: lapis lazuli oltremare, Genuine Vermilion and Genuine Naples Yellow (Web)
TOSCANA Honey Watercolours in pans (Web), (Color Chart JPG)
Lapis lazuli blue - gum tempera & watercolor (Web)
"Cennini" Egg Tempera Tubes (Web), (Color Chart JPG)
Historic pigments no.1 (Web)
Historic pigments no.2 (Web)
Gereral list of Pigments (Web)
Page Top^Included here for OEM pigment information, generally these companies do not sell to the public, unless you're willing to buy a 55 gallon drum for 2+ grand. I'm including them as a resource for more information onthe pigments. Some companies offer samples if you are a legitimate customer.
BASF:
Automotive/transportation Coatings & Pigments (2013 PDF) | Pigments for General Industral paints (PDF)
Pigments for powder coatings (PDF) | Pigments and Dispersions for Architectural coatings (PDF)
Colorants for Sensitive Applications (plastics & food contact) (PDF) | Pigments for Printing Inks (2014 PDF)
Pigments (Web): Color Index numbers and MSDS sheets are available by clicking on the pigment line trademark/brand name.
Clariant:
Entire Pigment Sales Range (Web 2018 PDF link) Click on the Download Sales Brochure Link, it will have you enter name & e-mail info to get actual pigment information download link.
On the Clariant site, they have colorants/pigment color chart brochures available for coatings, plastics and printing, along with make-up and ECO label compliant colorants. You may have to enter your name & e-mail info to get the actual pigment information download link to these brochures.
Ferro:
Pigment Literature (Web) Lots of PDFs of their full product range
Color Spaces (Web) Interactive Pigment listing with CI numbers
Lansco:
Pigments for Coatings (2017 PDF) | Pigments for Inks (2017 PDF) | FDA Compliant Pigments (2017 PDF)
Organic Pigments (Web) CI names, oil absorption & light fastness ratings available by selecting the specific color names.
Inorganic Pigments (Web) CI names, oil absorption & light fastness ratings available by selecting the specific color names.
Shepherd Color Company:
CLASSIC® Complex Inorganic Color Pigments (Web) Technical Data with color index numbers and other pigment info are available by selecting the specific pigment (uncheck all the other colors) on their "Color Finder", and clicking on the "Technical Data" button. MSDS sheets are only available by request.
YInMn Blue (Web) | ShepherdColor (YouTube Channel)
SunChemical:
Pigment Products (Web) No PDFs or brochures on site that I could find. You'll have to drill down multiple layers product/market categories to get to the color swatches; there are no CI names, but it appears the pigment trademark names use the Colour Index number as a modifier?
Organic Performance Pigments (2015 PDF) | Pigments for Coatings (2011 PDF) | Core pigments for Ink (2016 PDF)
Organic & Inorganic Pigments for Cosmetics (2012 PDF)
Uncategorised Colorants & Pigments: Page Top^
Chemical Substances in Tattoo Inks (2012 PDF) Safety of tattoo Inks
FDA approved food colors, cosmetic colors and additives (Web)
ACMI (Art & Creative Materials Institute) Certified Products List (PDF)
NOTES: Many brand name paints are convenience mixtures and some have misleading color names (indicating an overall hue, or historic pigment hue, instead of the actual pigments used) and these specifications & charts help to sort them all out. It is essential to know what colors are mixtures and which ones are single pigments. I feel single pigments paints are necessary to get clean mixes when mixing your own paint. Some companies mix as many as 5-7 colors to get a "hue" substitute to the a historic color and if you attempt to further mix with a pre-mix like that, you can end up with mud. I can't see any reason a company would need to use 7 different pigments to get a "Naples Yellow" Hue. I have also seen mixes with fugitive or marginally light fast pigments included in the paint formula, with the paint manufacturer claiming high light fastness simply because one of the pigments in the entire mix was light fast.
Using convenience mixes and artist paints directly from the tube, especially when in alla prima and expressionism techniques, is great, but it is still useful to know what pigments are in the mixtures. Convenience color mixes may also give brighter mixes than one can make in the studio, because a paint manufacturer can make extremely intimate mixes using equipment usually unavailable to the average artist.
Knowing the specific pigments in a artists paint and the chemical makeup is also helpful for those who have concerns about toxic ingredients, health and allergies. Some pigments may effect other pigments in your paintings too, especially if you are fond of using historic pigments such as Lead White, Chrome Yellow or Orpiment etc.
Color Index Names are the only sure way to know exactly what pigments make up the paint, but some paint manufacturer's do not list their pigment content on the tube or even a separate sheet or color chart. Although I can understand that some companies may have a legitimate concern about guarding trade secrets, they also might be just hiding inferior or toxic ingredients. One should be wary of any paints that that do not conform to the voluntary ASTM specs and list the color index pigment names. Generally any artist paints that do not indicate color index names/numbers are, with a few exceptions, low grade paints.
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