Winsor & Newton

Oh, yeah.

It's Artist Opus, Winsor & Newton.

[coughs] Yeah.

Yeah.

... recently when I was in Leeds.

Um, and I've tried to just keep that sacred.

Winsor & Newton Raphael 807 size two, best brush you'll ever buy, if you can find it in stock anywhere.

It's, like, the, it is the workhorse of most Golden Demon painters.

It's actually on a per colour basis.

So all my paints are either Winsor & Newton or they are Mike Harding and there are certain special colours that Mike Harding produces which I think are better than the Winsor & Newton equivalent but as an artist I also have to look at cost and so Winsor & Newton are a very economical way of doing very high quality colors but I do find probably 30% of my palette is Mike Harding equivalents because he does seem to get more chroma into his colors.

Yeah I've just started purchasing Sennelier recently and I haven't started using them yet but it's because certain colors were available that I haven't haven't seen before because we don't have the same art shops in north wales as you will have in london so that's why i kind of buy things as a an opportunistic purchase when i see them and think ah there we go uh you know a rose of some sort you know so i'll get a rose but it'll be so i'm curious to see how that compares to windsor and newton or michael harding you know

yeah yeah i mean in windsor and newton i always use permanent rose instead of alizarin crimson It's slightly less harsh.

And my carding, it's more oranges.

I use cadmium red light rather than cadmium red.

I find cadmium red way too intense, but cadmium red light isn't available by Winsor & Newton, so I go for a Mike Harding equivalent.

And manganese violet is a wonderful colour for night paintings, but Mike Harding is the one that does the best one.

Oh, wonderful.

But I have got that and I collect Winsor & Newton, you know, paintbrushes.

Oh, that's good.

Paintboxes.

When I was, I think probably five, I had a paint box, uh, a present, and it was green, and it was, it was proper.

It was Winsor & Newton.

It wasn't plastic.

It didn't have little pla- uh, pl- It, it wasn't a child's paint box.

I've seen those, yeah.

And there's another one called Winston Newton.

That was just Winston, but

yeah.