From the beginning, WILLIAMSBURG was guided by Carl Plansky's desire to create the richest and most beautiful handmade oil colors imaginable.
Getting the proper pigment is just the beginning. So much of the quality of oil paint is in the grinding. Each color is ground to enhance the beauty and luminosity specific to that particular pigment. Some colors will feel slightly gritty; others extremely smooth. Cerulean Blue will have a beautiful velvet, light-absorbing surface with an extremely strong covering power; Sienna will often be chunky or gritty to allow light to travel through the vehicle, exposing rich golden or mahogany undertones instead of just heavy, dull browns.
PIGMENTS are ground in pure, premium, alkali-refined and PH- balanced LINSEED OIL and made in batches no larger than five gallons at a time. This gives total control over the product, much like the late nineteenth-century French color makers. All the materials are hand measured, and every ounce of paint is scrutinized.
