Sennelier Artist Extra-Fine Oil Colour 40ml – Antique Red 661

Sennelier has made artists’ colours in Paris since 1887, when Gustave Sennelier opened his shop on the Quai Voltaire, across the Seine from the Louvre. The family firm supplied painters such as Cézanne and Gauguin, and its colours are still prized for their intensity and depth. Sennelier Artist Extra-Fine Oil Colour is the house’s flagship oil paint, ground with safflower oil for exceptionally rich, luminous colour.

The 40ml tube gives access to the full palette of well over a hundred colours, including genuine cadmiums and cobalts, historic earths such as Cassel Earth and Italian Earth, and colours unique to Sennelier like Sennelier Red and Bonnard Blue.

Safflower oil is pale and yellows less than linseed, which helps whites and light tints stay clean, and it gives the paint a soft, creamy body that blends beautifully on the canvas. The colours are graded into series by pigment cost, and every tube is labelled with its pigment information so you can plan glazes and mixes with confidence.

Key features

• Extra-fine artists’ oil colour made in France
• Ground in safflower oil for clean whites and luminous colour
• Soft, creamy texture that blends easily
• High pigment load for intense, saturated colour
• Graded in Series 1 to 6 by pigment
• The full colour range in the standard 40ml tube

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