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I ordered 11 tubes of Michael Harding paint from the Italian Art store on Monday. Tuesday morning it was delivered to my door. It is really different from Williamsburg. It's much softer and more translucent. It completely changes the way I am painting.
There is a huge difference between Old Holland Cremnitz white, Williamsburg Flake white, and Michael Harding cremnitz white. Williamsburgs is thick and sticky. OH is thick and slippery(waxy feeling). Michael Hardings is literally like warm butter. I bought the cremnitz ground in walnut oil. I am going to try the cremnitz ground in linseed oil and see if there is a difference. The use of whites seems key to the rest of the painting. The texture of your white greatly effects everything else, The white works like a medium for the rest of the paint.
Michael Hardings paint is most similiar to Doaks I think, in texture. It's very good stuff. I will stay with it.
I am using their red umber, venetian red, and alizarin crimson, raw umber, raw sienna, yellow ochre, naples yellow genuine, ivory black and burnt sienna. The burnt sienna is very near the red umber in color. The raw sienna is the same as Williamsburgs Italian green ochre . The red umber is similiar to Williamsburgs Terra rosa. The venetian red is similiar to Williamsburgs pompeii red. The texture is much softer though and very slippery. It's very very nice.
PS. There is no "texture" here with the Michael Harding paint. Instead you have thin veils of translucent color with soft edges. Oh no, yet another option. Actually I love this and will probably discard the heavy texture idea. Maybe I will start with the Williamsburg and then switch to Michael Harding for the top layers. Hmmmm
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