Range of oil Winton, of Winsor & Newton
In 200 ml., we have de colours most demanded in Winton oils. Wiht the Winsor & Newton warranty, designed for artists who are new to the art and enthusiasts who want a good quality oil with an affordable price.
Winton is the oil colour you start with and the one you work with every day. It suits anyone learning the technique, anyone painting large formats who needs to cover surface without the cost running away, and the classroom and the studio. It is not a lesser paint: it is made by Winsor & Newton to a formulation designed to cost less.
In professional ranges the price follows the pigment: genuine cadmium or cobalt costs several times what an ochre does. Not in Winton. All 55 colours in the range carry the same price, and that changes how you work — you can reach for the red and the yellow as freely as for the white.
Several colours in the range carry the word Hue: Cadmium Red Hue, Cobalt Blue Hue, Viridian Hue. It means the colour reproduces the look of the original pigment using a blend of cheaper modern pigments rather than the genuine one. That is exactly what holds the single price across the range.
On canvas the colour reads the same. The differences show in transparency and in mixing behaviour, not in the hue itself. Colours without the word Hue — the earths, Prussian Blue, Phthalo Blue, the quinacridones — carry their usual pigment.
If you need pure pigments, maximum permanence and the full chart of genuine cadmiums and cobalts, the range is Artists, Winsor & Newton's professional oil colour. If what you want is to paint a lot, learn, and not ration the paint, Winton. Plenty of painters use both: Winton for grounds and underpainting, Artists for the accents that have to last.
Yes. It is made by Winsor & Newton to the same controls. The difference from the Artists range is pigment concentration and the use of substitute pigments in some colours, not the manufacturing. For learning and for painting every day it is more than enough.
Artists uses pure pigments, a higher pigment load and series pricing according to the pigment. Winton uses substitute pigments in the expensive colours (the ones marked Hue) and has a single price. Artists is for finished and commissioned work; Winton for study, learning and volume.
Yes. All traditional oil colours are compatible with each other, since the binder is oil in all of them. What does not mix with traditional oil is water-mixable oil, which is a different thing.
Yes. If a commission calls for maximum long-term permanence, it makes sense to use Artists at least in the colours that will be most visible.
The range runs to 55 colours and every one costs the same, including those that imitate cadmiums and cobalts. We work with the 200 ml tube.
Yes, downloadable as a PDF from this page. It is the most reliable way to pick a colour, since a screen never reproduces the pigment exactly.
