Sennelier professional artist quality oil paints are rich and heavy but never stiff. The colors are luminous, their feel is smooth and buttery. The oil chosen for each individual color is selected according to the specific properties of the color's pigments. This custom oil to pigment matching makes Sennelier oil paints resistant to fading and cracking. The evidence of this is in museums worldwide on the canvases of the impressionists, as well as artists such as Chagall, Kandinsky, Modigliani and Yves Klein.
All colors enjoy either a good or excellent lightfastness rating.
Imported from France. Sold in 34 ml tubes. It is by far the best technically manufactured paint. Ground 3 to 5 times as necessary to achieve a universally consistent viscosity. Each color is modified to compensate for the inherent differences in the working characteristics of the pigment.