what brand of oil painting is considered the best and whats the worst?

Question

what brand of oil painting is considered the best and whats the worst?

Answer 1

Use an "artists" grade paint. There are many different brands but the "artist's" will have the highest load of pigment with no "fillers". M. Graham, Gamblin, DaVinci, Williamsburg, Sennelier, Old Holland, Holbein, Daniel Smith are some who don't make any but artist grade paint. Permalba is the best white paint brand. Every brand handles a little differently and you may have a preference, but any of those brands are artists. You may get a Winsor&Newton answer, but W&N make a student grade paint as well as artists, so not all W&N are always artists.

The worst brands are those sold by craft stores in little tubes or in "kits".

Answer 2

Apparently the best available are Michael Harding Oils, Michael is an artist who creates is own range of oils and if you are looking for a more intense finish and money is no object (trust me money would need to not a problem) then these are to go for, obviously the worst are always going to be any brought from general stores (though WH Smiths aren't too bad) but the best of both worlds and my opinion the best to be going for are Windsor and Newton Oils, they are relatively competitively priced, but are of great quality (the colours may not e quite as intense as Michael Harding's, but they are more then good enough) so I would advise you buy those if you can afford to, if not it depends how serious you are, but cheap but more serious that a fad, go with WH Smiths brand

Answer 3

I have always used Grumbacher, but not sure they are available everywhere. I am sure there are some other pretty good brands, the old adage, you only get what you pay for, and that applies here. I have had some of my lesser used oils for 40 years and they are still good, but don't know if that makes a difference for your needs. The ones I would stay away from are the generic, like store brands, not too crazy about them, they don't mix well, the colors don't seem true, and they seem to dry out. If I may add, some of the better artists I knew used what ever they could get their hands on, being one of those starving artist types, they said they were artists not advertisers.