Also, I want to know what kind of oil is the vehicle of Boysen oil tinting colors.
http://www.boysen.com.ph/oncolors.shtml
They are not oil, they are alkyd. That means that, in addition to oil, there is a resin of some kind in there. I’m guessing it will be a petroleum-based vehicle, not the linseed oil in artists’ oils. If you want to know the exact composition, you’ll have to read the side of the can, or contact Boysen.
You’ve asked about this product before. Again—they are designed to tint HOUSE PAINT. It is probably a fine product when used for its intended purpose, which is to mix evenly into a gallon of house paint. If you want to use them for painting canvases, go ahead. But the Boysen people are not creating art supplies, and were probably not concerned with things like how these colors will mix on a palette, or how well they will adhere to a canvas (the house paint is supposed to do the adhering), or how lightfast or colorfast they are (housepaint isn’t meant to last forever).
If you’re determined to prove these tinting colors will perform as well as oil paint for a lot less money, no one can stop you. But it would be ethical to disclose to anyone who wants to buy your work that you used housepaint tints, not oil paint.
Personally, as a professional, I would prefer to work in a less expensive REAL medium rather than waste precious money and time experimenting with a product of such dubious quality and permanence.
March 5th, 2010 at 6:32 am
http://www.boysen.com.ph/oncolors.shtml
They are not oil, they are alkyd. That means that, in addition to oil, there is a resin of some kind in there. I’m guessing it will be a petroleum-based vehicle, not the linseed oil in artists’ oils. If you want to know the exact composition, you’ll have to read the side of the can, or contact Boysen.
You’ve asked about this product before. Again—they are designed to tint HOUSE PAINT. It is probably a fine product when used for its intended purpose, which is to mix evenly into a gallon of house paint. If you want to use them for painting canvases, go ahead. But the Boysen people are not creating art supplies, and were probably not concerned with things like how these colors will mix on a palette, or how well they will adhere to a canvas (the house paint is supposed to do the adhering), or how lightfast or colorfast they are (housepaint isn’t meant to last forever).
If you’re determined to prove these tinting colors will perform as well as oil paint for a lot less money, no one can stop you. But it would be ethical to disclose to anyone who wants to buy your work that you used housepaint tints, not oil paint.
Personally, as a professional, I would prefer to work in a less expensive REAL medium rather than waste precious money and time experimenting with a product of such dubious quality and permanence.
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March 5th, 2010 at 7:02 am
Helene makes some really good points.
Also, if you look right beneath the title on her link, it says "non-drying oil" – it could be anything from petroleum-based (like motor oil) to Peanut oil. This is not something you want to use in place of artists’ paint, especially if it never dries.
Since this product is used for tinting larger quantities of paint, it means there is no binder in it. You would have to mix it with linseed oil and other ingredients to make it into paint.
Also, from a brief scan of the product, I can see the colour numbers are very different from artist’s pigment colour numbers – these are quite possibly made from dyes (which are NOT permanent) instead of pigments (which are permanent). I would avoid these like the plague.
You do owe it to your potential buyers to disclose the nature of your materials. If Boysen can’t tell you what they’re made of, you don’t want ‘em in your art.
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30+ yrs an artist, 14 yrs selling artists materials