He hand makes the labels.... they are all the same except the handwriting. That's why the info is on the site. He has all the pigment info there. He also has actual swatches on each tube, which is rare. Eric Silver is also the most responsive paintmaker I have ever dealt with- always quick to answer an email with even the most obscure question. He told me the ratio n the binder of his colors so I could have additional medium- with none of the snobbery I have encountered with other paintmakers (AHEM... George O'Hanlon AT Natural Pigments) Anyway....Wonderful paints. One of my top to brands. Have used them for 5 years (over 200 pieces) and never had a bad tube
A bit late in my response but even when making this video swatches on the tube are quickly becoming the norm. Tube swatches have been a staple in other paint tubes I've had for years. It's easy to be responsive when you're the only guy in the business...that's not unusual to me, though appreciated for sure!
Great vid! Yes I love blue ridge. Especially the cremnitz white and cobalt teal. The teal is very rich pigment and thick like Williamsburg 👍 but cheaper then those, and def cheaper than Old holland/mike harding
Ive been painting with oils for 40 years. I can always tell right away if the paint is short of pigment when I mix colors and I tend to mix a lot. I ordered several colors last month and started using most of them. They are vary buttery. Which is nice because I don't like using paint medium unless I simply have to or I'm doing a wash. They seem to have a fair amount of pigment but short of Michael Harding quality in most colors. That said, I think they are better than Williamsburg or Gamblin. The main reason I tried them out was because I got some old paint a couple of times from Blick on sale and was very disappointed. The thing about oil paint is that you need to try many different brands in different colors. Brands color varies. I tend to use 3 different brands, well now 4 since I'm using Eric's Blue Ridge. I seldom buy expensive brands for earth tones. I paint large canvases and use a fair amount of paint with pallet knives. I like seeing large areas with pallet knife and smaller shapes with brush. Like 2/3 pallet knife, 1/3 brush marks. A lot of times, I put on a rich color then drag a more grayish tone over it and pull some of the rich color up for an effect. If the paint is poor it turns muddy. Except muddy water is what I need sometimes. So I use cheeper paint for mud. Big Dah? That Eric doesn't stock enormous amounts of paint is a good thing. It insures the paint is always fresh. My 2cents.
Thanks for sharing your experience! I've really found that oils can vary wildly between brand. Personally Williamsburg is what I've found to be the one that works best for me, but I can understand your apprehension toward them. I'm primarily an acrylic painter so my experience using the blue ridge colors is very different from what it seems your painting style is like. Also always super cool to hear from artists who have been working longer than I've been alive XD
Eric hand letters every tube which is why the information is minimal. As you said the info is availabile on the website. Seems like a real First World problem you have there 😉
I hadn't noticed the "thalo" spelling. I do like the 150 ml tubes available for ALL colors (if in stock). Not very many oil colors do that, I can't think of any but BlueRidge & Gamblin.
most manufacturers do have larger tubes for some/most of their colors, though they won't be in stores usually. It is strange to see it across the board in every color though for sure.
Super quality reasonably priced hand made paint so I don't mind at all to go his website and learn all about the color before I buy it. If the labels were less simple it would cost more so again, I don't consider consulting the website for details a con at all.
@@cinderblockstudios it works quite well and some of the top painters in the hobby use it all the time. The process is different than canvas painting and you work with very small amounts of paint at a time. James Wappel for example, multi time golden demon winner, uses oils now and he gets really great results in a short amount of time. Also, some people mix mediums with great results. Such as oils over acrylics.
You did a review of a product without actually showing footage of you using the product??? Im thinking of buying a big tube of one of their colors but I was hoping to see a vid of someone working with their paint
Put in a little from my tests, but don't really use oils a whole heck of a lot in the first place. I did talk about their working properties being most similar to Gamblin and Utrecht though.
@@cinderblockstudios i see. Ive been using oils for a couple years, but Im still a beginner-intermediate with the technical aspects and am definitely still figuring out what I like. Have you tried Mgraham's oils? They are highly pigmented, ready-to-go out of the tube, and very viscous. I seem to like mgraham for the beginning/underpainting stage and I seem to prefer stiffer paints like gamblin in the later stages.
@@cinderblockstudios i work on mdf board mostly... So in lieu of the traditional mineral spirit washes in the beginning (since it drips straight down the board) im usually pushing paint around the slick surface thats mixed with alkyd and lifting off with paper towels. Its messy lol.
@@SnkobArts Haven't used the M.Graham ones no. If I'm using oils I'm usually using them as a finishing medium over an acrylic base painting. Pretty much all artist/professional paints are going to be highly pigmented though, so that's rarely an issue at a certain price point. I'm also not sure I've ever seen paint that wasn't "ready to go" out of the tube.
A lot of oil paints are stiffer and require some type of medium to improve brushability. From my experience, gamblin is one of those. Mgraham has good brushability without adding any medium to it. Thats what I mean by "ready to go".
adding all that info is redundant, it's not like your in a store buying something and you need to look at the ingredients or description. the only way to buy these is on-line, and that is where all the info is, if you need it while your painting then something is wrong, that should already have been tucked away upstairs
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He hand makes the labels.... they are all the same except the handwriting. That's why the info is on the site. He has all the pigment info there.
He also has actual swatches on each tube, which is rare. Eric Silver is also the most responsive paintmaker I have ever dealt with- always quick to answer an email with even the most obscure question. He told me the ratio n the binder of his colors so I could have additional medium- with none of the snobbery I have encountered with other paintmakers (AHEM... George O'Hanlon AT Natural Pigments)
Anyway....Wonderful paints. One of my top to brands.
Have used them for 5 years (over 200 pieces) and never had a bad tube
A bit late in my response but even when making this video swatches on the tube are quickly becoming the norm. Tube swatches have been a staple in other paint tubes I've had for years.
It's easy to be responsive when you're the only guy in the business...that's not unusual to me, though appreciated for sure!
Great vid! Yes I love blue ridge. Especially the cremnitz white and cobalt teal. The teal is very rich pigment and thick like Williamsburg 👍 but cheaper then those, and def cheaper than Old holland/mike harding
Ive been painting with oils for 40 years. I can always tell right away if the paint is short of pigment when I mix colors and I tend to mix a lot. I ordered several colors last month and started using most of them. They are vary buttery. Which is nice because I don't like using paint medium unless I simply have to or I'm doing a wash. They seem to have a fair amount of pigment but short of Michael Harding quality in most colors. That said, I think they are better than Williamsburg or Gamblin. The main reason I tried them out was because I got some old paint a couple of times from Blick on sale and was very disappointed. The thing about oil paint is that you need to try many different brands in different colors. Brands color varies. I tend to use 3 different brands, well now 4 since I'm using Eric's Blue Ridge. I seldom buy expensive brands for earth tones. I paint large canvases and use a fair amount of paint with pallet knives. I like seeing large areas with pallet knife and smaller shapes with brush. Like 2/3 pallet knife, 1/3 brush marks. A lot of times, I put on a rich color then drag a more grayish tone over it and pull some of the rich color up for an effect. If the paint is poor it turns muddy. Except muddy water is what I need sometimes. So I use cheeper paint for mud. Big Dah? That Eric doesn't stock enormous amounts of paint is a good thing. It insures the paint is always fresh. My 2cents.
Thanks for sharing your experience! I've really found that oils can vary wildly between brand. Personally Williamsburg is what I've found to be the one that works best for me, but I can understand your apprehension toward them. I'm primarily an acrylic painter so my experience using the blue ridge colors is very different from what it seems your painting style is like. Also always super cool to hear from artists who have been working longer than I've been alive XD
Eric hand letters every tube which is why the information is minimal. As you said the info is availabile on the website. Seems like a real First World problem you have there 😉
Been told no zinc in blueridge paints! That's a plus as well
Except in the zinc white of course.
I hadn't noticed the "thalo" spelling. I do like the 150 ml tubes available for ALL colors (if in stock). Not very many oil colors do that, I can't think of any but BlueRidge & Gamblin.
most manufacturers do have larger tubes for some/most of their colors, though they won't be in stores usually. It is strange to see it across the board in every color though for sure.
Super quality reasonably priced hand made paint so I don't mind at all to go his website and learn all about the color before I buy it. If the labels were less simple it would cost more so again, I don't consider consulting the website for details a con at all.
Are these good for miniature painting? Small pigment size faster drying etc?
I wouldn't paint minis with oils, period. I can't imagine linseed oil behaving with plastic at all.
@@cinderblockstudios it works quite well and some of the top painters in the hobby use it all the time. The process is different than canvas painting and you work with very small amounts of paint at a time. James Wappel for example, multi time golden demon winner, uses oils now and he gets really great results in a short amount of time. Also, some people mix mediums with great results. Such as oils over acrylics.
@@bacawaka2813 sounds like you already have the answer to your original question then
You did a review of a product without actually showing footage of you using the product??? Im thinking of buying a big tube of one of their colors but I was hoping to see a vid of someone working with their paint
Put in a little from my tests, but don't really use oils a whole heck of a lot in the first place. I did talk about their working properties being most similar to Gamblin and Utrecht though.
@@cinderblockstudios i see. Ive been using oils for a couple years, but Im still a beginner-intermediate with the technical aspects and am definitely still figuring out what I like. Have you tried Mgraham's oils? They are highly pigmented, ready-to-go out of the tube, and very viscous. I seem to like mgraham for the beginning/underpainting stage and I seem to prefer stiffer paints like gamblin in the later stages.
@@cinderblockstudios i work on mdf board mostly... So in lieu of the traditional mineral spirit washes in the beginning (since it drips straight down the board) im usually pushing paint around the slick surface thats mixed with alkyd and lifting off with paper towels. Its messy lol.
@@SnkobArts Haven't used the M.Graham ones no. If I'm using oils I'm usually using them as a finishing medium over an acrylic base painting. Pretty much all artist/professional paints are going to be highly pigmented though, so that's rarely an issue at a certain price point. I'm also not sure I've ever seen paint that wasn't "ready to go" out of the tube.
A lot of oil paints are stiffer and require some type of medium to improve brushability. From my experience, gamblin is one of those. Mgraham has good brushability without adding any medium to it. Thats what I mean by "ready to go".
Thanks ... I may try some oils soon.
Once you go oils, you never go back. :-)
@Dark Phoenix I disagree
@@cinderblockstudios maybe you just didn't get broken in properly 😆.
adding all that info is redundant, it's not like your in a store buying something and you need to look at the ingredients or description. the only way to buy these is on-line, and that is where all the info is, if you need it while your painting then something is wrong, that should already have been tucked away upstairs
Already tucked away? You expect me to memorize 3 dozen pigments and transparency across multiple brands on the fly? Your memory must be impeccable!
They’re actually not artistry they’re professional grade. They have a higher pigment.