Oil paints

Pappy o' daniel

Hi, Im looking for good quality but reasonably priced oil paints, I dont mind if its online or bricks and mortar shop, I live in cork.
Thanks

Reef

Cork Art Supplies...in the city. or you can buy online too

Bubs99

the best art shop i found is on the quay in the city centre., its called Vibes and Scribes, its also a book shop, its close to the Crawford Museum. Im not from Cork so i dont know the exact address. it is the best art and craft shop i have EVER been in...ever and Ive been in quite a few.

filmifan

Hi - I'm new to oil painting, and have just signed up for an on-line oil painting course, and I'm very excited to begin the course. First up, though, is buying some specific oil paints by specific manufacturers.

I've found everything else that's 'required' for the course, except two things: one is a specific colour by a specific manufacturer. It's called Ice Blue - the Shiva Series, and it's made by an American art company, called Jack Richeson Paints. I've seen it on-line on American art supplies shops (like Jerry's Artarama and Dick Blick's Art Supplies), but, with the whole Pandora's box about customs and import fees buying stuff on line from a US-based website, I'd much prefer to keep it local, and buy some an art supplies shop here in Ireland.

The course also is asking for this interesting thingie - normally used by sculptors, but artists/painters also are using it more and more - called the Kemper Wipe-Out Tool. Again, this is easily available in the US and via US-based on-line shops, but I've not been able to find such an item here.

I've been to Kennedy's and K&M Evans in Dublin, and I've emailed Cork Art Supplies also, but no one stocks these items or these brands. I've also looked a bit further afield by checking out Jackson's Art Supplies, Ken Bromley's Art Supplies, the Skipton Art Store and Tindall's Art and Craft Supplies...all based in the UK...but none of these shops have Richeson oils (but do have something similar to the Kemper Wipe Out Tool, which I may just cave in and buy, if I can't find it anywhere else).

So....very long story turned into a short question: does anyone know if there's an art supplies shop that stocks Jack Richeson oil paints (Ice Blue - the Shiva Series, specifically) and also, that magic little sculpting and painting tool, called Kemper Wipe Out Tool?

Thanks for reading this far, and thanks in advance for anyone out there able to help me on my art supply quest.

looksee

You do realise that on-line courses such as this get paid by firms to recommend their products? Unless they are going to teach you to do automatic copying with no creative input from you, you do not need precise colours and named products. It would be more to the point if they showed you how to achieve Ice Blue with white and one of the standard blues (ultramarine, cerulean, etc). And you can achieve the effects of the gizmo with a plastic spatula or a carved eraser.

filmifan

Hi Looksee - Thanks very much for replying. Yes...I do realise that I can mix up my own batch of something very similar to Ice Blue. And yes, the art teacher does encourage us all to find our own favourite colours, brands and experiment with our own colour recipes.

In her e-course, she is absolutely *not* requiring (I realise that I've used the word 'require' in my initial post, but I put the word in quotation marks for that reason - it was never insisted upon or required from this art teacher that we *must have...or else* these speciifc colours, so sorry if it came across that way...my fault for poor choice of wording there) or insisting that we buy these exact colours and these exact brands and these exact tools (like the Kemper Wipe Out tool). She is simply showing and explaining and demonstrating her technique, as well as her favourite and go-to colours for her own palette and her favourite brands. Nothing written in stone (or in a specific tube of a specific brand of paint). As this is an art course, she has provided each student with a list of items that she uses when she teaches workshops, and which she provides for each student when they take her in-person on-site painting workshops. But again, this is her preferred and go-to method and go-to favourites of paints and brands, that she has listed for the course.

I'm asking about this specific colour because a friend did happen to have a bit of this colour/this brand left over from when he was into oils (he's since switched over to watercolour), and he gifted me with the remnants of what was in that tube. And I loved it. It was perfect for painting shadows underneath clouds and also, when painting still life objects like pastries with whipped cream, for example, that Ice Blue (with a helping of Titanium White) toned down the harshness of the Titanium White ever so subtly.

With all due respect to you, I do realise full well that I can mix up my very own batch of something very, very close to this Richeson Ice Blue colour. Call me lazy, if you wish...but I'd love to get more of this colour, straight from the tube, if I can.

That's all I was asking...if anyone knows where I might be able to obtain this colour anywhere in Ireland or the UK.

looksee

evidently you know what you are at, so many people go new into these things, spend a fortune and hope that it will mean they will be brilliant! Anyway, sorry I don't know where you would get it, I am in the south of the country and the only paints available are the standard W&N etc. Hope you enjoy the course!

filmifan

Thanks, Looksee. I'll keep looking. It really is such a great colour to have on the palette. If I ever do find it, I'm going to buy at least three tubes of it, lol.

cutlass

looksee wrote: »

You do realise that on-line courses such as this get paid by firms to recommend their products? Unless they are going to teach you to do automatic copying with no creative input from you, you do not need precise colours and named products. It would be more to the point if they showed you how to achieve Ice Blue with white and one of the standard blues (ultramarine, cerulean, etc). And you can achieve the effects of the gizmo with a plastic spatula or a carved eraser.

Yes unfortunatley allot of courses and tutorials promote products, but I guess they have to get paid aswell.