R&F | Pigment Sticks | 38ml
R&F Pigment Sticks are oil paint manufactured with enough wax for the paint to be molded into stick form. They allow the painter to draw or paint directly onto a surface without brushes, palettes, paint tubes, or solvents. R&F Pigment Sticks use only the basic traditional materials: natural wax (beeswax & plant wax), linseed oil, and pigment. The result is an oil stick with a lipstick soft consistency.
R&F Pigment Sticks have none of the additives, extenders, substitutes, or facilitators that are commonly used in industrial production. While the use of these adulterants can save time and reduce cost, they lower the quality of the paint. To do without them it is necessary to create a very precise balance of the ingredients. Consequently R&F Paint formulas are complex and our manufacturing is labor-intensive, handmade in small batches, carefully milled and molded.
R&F Pigment Sticks are recognized as the premier oil-based painting stick, but their use goes far beyond painting alone. The product breaks barriers between artistic disciplines, allowing the painter to draw or paint directly onto a surface without brushes, palettes, paint tubes, or solvents. Made by hand using only the basic traditional materials: natural wax (beeswax & plant wax), linseed oil, and pigment. The result is an oil stick with a lipstick soft consistency.
R&F Pigment Sticks are available in three sizes and 102 vibrant colours plus Blending Sticks. The 38mL stick (equivalent to a tube of oil paint) measures 1.9cm x 12.7cm.
Using R&F Pigment Sticks:
Oil paint in stick form means that the paint can be applied directly to a surface without the distancing factor of the brush. This makes it possible to dispense not only with the brush, but with knives, palettes, and solvents, thereby making oil sticks more immediate and portable than standard oil painting materials.
Suggestions
• Used as Oil Paint: One way to use R&F Pigment Sticks is to treat them as if they were regular tube oils or use them in combination with tube oils. You can work on any surface just as you would with oils. Use brushes, solvents, and rags once the paint is on the surface. Some artists use them to start a painting with a quick sketch. Others do their painting with brushes and put in final details with the sticks.
• Used as a Drawing Tool: R&F Pigment Sticks as stand-alone painting and drawing tools. They are a wonderful bridge between drawing and painting and their very nature causes artists to loosen up, use more color, and be spontaneous and gestural.
• Monotypes: Printmakers fall in love with Pigment Sticks. Anyone who has spent hours trying to mix colours with only nine or ten printmaking inks will find the palette of 91 colours very liberating. Their immediacy, and mark making ability afford an endless range of options.
Other Benefits to Working with R&F Pigment Sticks:
• They can be thinned with turpentine or mineral spirits. • They can be worked with mediums by dipping them into stand oil, linseed oil, alkyd mediums, or resin gels. • They can be mixed alongside tube oils or used to draw over dried oil paintings.
Blending Sticks
• Blending Sticks are colorless Pigment Sticks® – essentially a stick without pigment. They can be worked into a color to increase its transparency or to blend two colors together on the painting.
Shipping policy
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