2007-03-07 19:17:35 · 4 answers · asked by Karen V 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Painting
More expensive paints are made with more expensive materials. For example, any oil paint with "cadmium" in the name will be in the higher levels and more expensive. "Cadmium Yellow" will cost twice the price of "Lemon Yellow", because Cadmium is a kind of metal that is mixed into the paints to make it higher quality: Looks better, paints better, holds better. Unless you're a professional painter you can just buy the cheaper, series 1 paints. It will still look good.
2007-03-07 19:37:03 · answer #1 · answered by D L 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The series is used with almost every manufacturer because of different pigments used, some pigments are more expensive than others. The companies are using series to price the paints and to put them in different pricing categories. Hues are colors that are not made up of one pigment but are made up of couple different pigments mixed together, the paint might behave a little different than one pigment paint..
Also check out color saturation, opacity and color lightfastness.
2007-03-08 09:06:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Students quality paints are fine for amateur or professional use. If the colour has the word 'hue' in it's name it has a cheaper synthetic substitute for the pigment. The expensive one will last for centuries. Perhaps some of the cheaper ones might fade a bit after 100 years or so!!!
2007-03-08 05:48:52 · answer #3 · answered by chris s 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The cost of pigments. Some pigments are more permenant than others.
You'lll find, therefore, that W&N Cadmium Red is much the same price as the Professional Rowney Cadmium Red.
Most paint manufacturers produce "student" and "artist" quality ranges.
2007-03-08 01:26:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋