Michael Harding

Michael Harding oil paints, powerful, vibrant colours, hgh pigment load.

David Hockney, Howard Hodgkin, Sean Scully all used these paints - handmade and consist of only pigment and oil.

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Titanium White No.1 - 40ml/225ml

A heavy pigment load and a very clear oil (safflower) make this a very bright, cold white. Powerful in mixes. …

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Titanium White No.2 - 40ml/225ml

The modern classic - titanium white, opaque, cold, white. Pretty much the white on every painter's palette, th…

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Warm White - 40ml/225ml

Conceived as an alternative to Lead White, this paint is in essence a warmer Titanium white. The temperature i…

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Warm Light Yellow - 40ml

In masstone a warm, very light, orange/yellow white. The real paint has slightly more chroma than swatch oppos…

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Unbleached Titanium Dioxide - 40ml

This paint just asks to be experimented with, I have found it will slightly 'grey' mixes in a very subtle way,…

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Lemon Yellow 40ml

A cool, single pigment, yellow. Sometimes known as Barium yellow, this paint is made from the pigment Barium C…

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Citron - 40ml

Citron is a single pigment paint from Michael Harding, based on the unusual pigment - PY175 - Benzimidazolone …

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Bright Yellow Lake - 40ml

This is powerful, yellow paint, made with one of the lake type pigments, arylide. Arylide pigments work except…

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Cadmium Yellow 40ml

A mid tonal value, warmish yellow is essential for most painters and really in terms of an opaque yellow that …

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Yellow Lake 40ml

One of the oldest established organic lakes, an arylide yellow pigment sometimes known as Hansa yellow, this i…

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Turners Yellow - 40ml

This is an unusual pigment, more often found in watercolour paint. The pigment PY216 is a complex of tin, anti…

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Yellow Benzimidazolone 40ml

Wow, that's a mouthful, and it's maybe better known as just Yellow Benzi. This is a single pigment paint (PY15…

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Yellow Lake Deep - 40ml

A very deep yellow, in fact I would say as to near to orange as you can get while remaining yellow! In masston…

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New Gamboge 40ml

New Gamboge is a more lightfast version of the original plant-based Gamboge, which we sell in the Wallace Seym…

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Indian Yellow - 40ml

Traditionally, and very unethically, this was made from force-feeding cows mango leaves, and then gently warmi…

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Indian Yellow Red Shade - 40ml

Indian Yellow is one of my favourite paints in terms of hue. Its transparency gives it such depth and the natu…

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Transparent Yellow Oxide - 40ml

As the name suggests a transparent pigment of very 'clean' yellow oxide. In masstone, a rather uninspiring raw…

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French Yellow Ochre - 40ml

Yellow ochre is my favourite paint and hue, again this version is a simple earth pigment and oil combination w…

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Yellow Ochre Deep 40ml

A synthetic iron oxide which basically is a deeper, slightly warmer hue of the classic yellow ochre, it brings…

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Cadmium Golden Yellow - 40ml

Very warm, orange leaning, Cadmium yellow. Warmer than most Cadmium yellows hence the name 'Golden', it also p…

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Cobalt Yellow (Aureolin) - 40ml

A really special, 'classic' hue this one, it is a testament to the integrity of colourmen like Michael Harding…

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Cadmium Yellow Lemon 40ml

A cooler cadmium yellow - it leans towards the green end of the yellow spectrum. The pigment cadmium sulphide …

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Cadmium Green - 40ml

A combination of the classic painter's pigments, cadmium yellow and viridian. A zingy, fresh, luminescent gree…

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Bright Green Lake 40ml

A greenish yellow, it is potent with strong tinting power, nearly as powerful as Phthalo green but warmer and …

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Emerald Green - 40ml

Not the deadly arsenic variety! In masstone a punchy, acidic green. Once white is added it just soaks it up du…

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Phthalo Green Yellow Shade - 40ml

An unusual pigment ground in linseed oil gives this very unique colour! Thankfully it's not quite as powerful …

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Terre Verte - 40ml

Literally meaning green earth, in the world of lakes, mars colours and phthalo's this is a gentle giant, very …

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Michael Harding

Oxide of Chromium - 40ml

Oxide of Chromium or Chromium Green was discovered in the mid-19th Century and made from a metallic oxide. A g…

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Cobalt Green Deep 40ml

Slightly magnetic, apparently, as all cobalt pigments are! Cobalt green is sometimes known as Rinman's gr…

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Hookers Green - 40ml

Hookers green, probably more familiar to watercolourists, is a new colour in the Michael Harding range. It is …

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Permanent Sap Green - 40ml

Like painting with moss, rich, deep, earthy - the only thing missing is the smell.Sap Green is the generic nam…

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Olive Green - 40ml

Olive green is a new colour from Michael Harding, based on a blend of pigments, including a greenish phthalo b…

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Moss Green - 40ml

This paint is a blend of the modern, transparent pigments ultramarine blue, nickel azo yellow and quinacridone…

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Green Gold 40ml

The green, green, gold of home... A modern, single pigment paint, this is not made of several pigments just on…

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Phthalo Green Lake - 40ml

The hardest pigment to control on the palette! Chlorinated copper or Phthalo Green as it is commonly known, wi…

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Permanent Green Light - 40ml

Michael's description; "Permanent or “Victoria” Green was the generic name given by 19th century E…

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Cobalt Turquoise Deep - 40ml

Cobalts are my favourite range of pigments, delicate but with a jewel-like quality of hue which other pigment …

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Cobalt Teal 40ml

Fluorescent, zingy, powerful, turquoise, really quite unlike anything else. Regardless of hue there are four o…

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Cobalt Teal Blue Shade - 40ml

Zingy, glowing, paint. Cobalt teal is a colour which seems very popular at the moment, this single pigment ver…

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Vivid Blue - 40ml

Vivid blue is a blend of pigments, titanium white, a green shade of phthalo blue and phthalo green.. The vivid…

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Kings Blue Light 40ml

The lighter version of King's Blue. The name was given by English manufacturers to Smalt, a cobalt-based pigme…

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Kings Blue Deep 40ml

A deeper version of King's Blue, lovely sky blue quality, straight out of the tube onto your palette, it is li…

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Phthalo Blue and Titanium White - 40ml

Phthalocyanine Blue and Titanium White. Michael Harding;"I devised this blend as a replacement for Manganese B…

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Phthalo Turquoise - 40ml

Please note this is not a single pigment phthalo turquoise. Originally turquoise was made from the mineral aft…

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Cerulean Blue 40ml

A unique hue, the greenish nature of this blue really doesn't appear with any other pigment. Rich, deep and a …

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Cobalt Blue - 40ml

This paint is made from the same blue pigment as used on Chinese porcelain vases and is perfect for painting b…

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Lapis Lazuli Afghan - Genuine - 40ml

RRP £120! The ultimate pigment, historically reserved for the highest painting commissions, I will leave…

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Ultramarine Blue - 40ml/225ml

Think blue skies, the depth and underlying warmth. A fantastically useful blue, I personally use this a lot mi…

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Phthalo Blue Red Shade - 40ml

I am excited about this paint, I have always found phthalo blue too cool for most uses and this is compounded …

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Phthalo Blue Lake - 40ml

Phthalocyanine Blue Lake is its full name, a chlorinated copper invented in 1935, this was one of the first sy…

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Prussian Blue - 40ml

The colour of Midnight! That's all you need to know!...However a little more info... Ferri-ammonium ferrocyani…

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Indanthrone Blue 40ml

This pigment was invented in 1901 as an extremely lightfast dye. Indanthrone is now used in a multitude of app…

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Indigo 40ml

This isn't natural indigo (which we sell in the Wallace Seymour range) however it is an excellent approximatio…

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Ultramarine Violet 40ml

Ultramarine originally described paint made from Lapis Lazuli. However, in the 1820's, through the use of chem…

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Cobalt Violet Dark - 40ml

A deep version of the pigment PV14. Beautiful violet tints when mixed with white. Cobalt violet is a superb pa…

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Perylene Violet - 40ml

In masstone (straight out of the tube) this is a deep reddish, purple with a rich chroma. The transparent natu…

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Deep Purple - 40ml

Sadly not the 1970's rock band, but the colour Deep Purple. Here is Michael's description; "After many years I…

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Amethyst - 40ml

Consisting of transparent red, blue and violet pigments, this is like turbo charged Cobalt violet deep, the sa…

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Manganese Violet - 40ml

The science of chemistry has turned the dull, silver grey metal element of Manganese into this a jewel like, l…

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Lavender - 40ml

Beloved by bees, the scent can induce sleep and distilled as spike oil it makes an excellent paint medium. Thi…

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Pale Violet - 40ml

Dioxazine violet and ultramarine blue, tinted with some Titanium white gives this pale violet hue. A super sta…

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Ultramarine Pink - 40ml

A fairly new colour from Michael Harding - Ultramarine Pink. It is a single pigment paint based on PR259 and p…

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Wisteria - 40ml

Wisteria is named after the plant which bears the same name and similarly coloured flowers. The image on left …

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Cobalt Violet Light 40ml

I love how this interacts with light orange when used in landscape painting, it makes some of the most delight…

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Quinacridone Purple 40ml

Quinacridone purple from the family of modern, robust Quinacridone pigments. In my experience they all glow an…

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Magenta - 40ml

A descendent of the aniline dyes developed in the 1850's which fundamentally changed the colour producing indu…

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Alizarin Claret - 40ml

A single pigment alternative to Alizarin Crimson for those who are concerned about lightfastness, this is a hi…

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Crimson Lake - 40ml

Made with a modern Perylene pigment, this is a high chroma, extremely lightfast paint. Not as cold as Alizarin…

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Alizarin Crimson 40ml

Perfect for glazing, although it will lift almost any mix, a thin glaze of this over your reds and oranges wil…

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Quinacridone Rose 40ml

I reckon Quinacridones are some of the best modern pigments, extremely lightfast, transparent and really unbel…

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Rose Dore - 40ml

Literally meaning in English 'golden rose', this is a deep red hue with slight yellowish undertones. A superb …

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Quinacridone Coral - 40ml

Quinacridone coral is a lightish red, single pigment paint. The quinacridone pigments are an excellent additio…

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Pyrrole Red 40ml

A rich, glowing, red. A modern pigment that really excels and could function as the primary red on your palett…

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Madder Brown - 40ml

Madder brown is based on the wonderful quinacridone magenta pigment with a bit of red iron oxide in there, jus…

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Permanent Brown - 40ml

I was excited to try this one, having never come across it before and being partial to transparent pigments - …

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Indian Red - 40ml

This was originally an even more purplish, natural iron oxide imported from India. However, like nearly all mo…

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Venetian Red 40ml

The classic portrait painters earth pigment...add white get pinky flesh hues. Then add ochres, umbers & bo…

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Cadmium Red Deep 40ml

'Deep' means this paint is positioned closer to violet than orange on the red part of the colour wheel. Contra…

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Scarlet Lake - 40ml

A powerful, single pigment, red. Based on a Napthol pigment it is a powerful tinter, in masstone not disimilar…

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Cadmium Red - 40ml

This is the classic Cadmium Red oil paint. It will be on most palettes and this is one of the best; a beautifu…

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Napthol Red 40ml

Napthol Red, the napthol pigments were first patented in 1911 and used initially as cotton dyes, then in the 1…

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Herculane Red - 40ml

A punchy, single pigment paint made with the ubiquitous PR101 - a synthetic red iron oxide responsible for col…

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Orange Sunset - 40ml

Orange Sunset is a new addition to Michael's range - a single pigment paint based on pyrazolone orange (PO34),…

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Quinacridone Gold - 40ml

A paint made from two of the best modern pigments, Quinacridone and Nickel Azo, both are very high chroma, ver…

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Cadmium Red Light - 40ml

Cadmium red light...the light referring not to its tonal value but to its position on the colour wheel, it lea…

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Orange Benzimidazolone 40ml

Punchy and bright - this is Orange Benzimidazolone - an unusual single pigment paint. In masstone it reminds m…

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Cadmium Orange 40ml

A Cadmium orange which leans towards red, like all Cadmiums a powerful tinter and wonderfully opaque. Such is …

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Brilliant Orange - 40ml

A single pigment banger, also known as permanent orange, the pigment is PO62, a modern synthetic pigment which…

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Permanent Orange - 40ml

If you are just starting out in painting and maybe you are confused by the terms warm and cool colours, this i…

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Opera Rose

Ok this colour truly is fluorescent, it glows even in low light. A vivid reddish pink in hue. The swatch doesn…

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Brilliant Pink - 40ml

Brilliant pink! Why? It would be almost impossible to reach the intensity of this hue by mixing on the palette…

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Yellow Ochre - 40ml

My favourite earth, if not my favourite colour. A classic iron oxide and linseed oil blend. A higher-keyed and…

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Raw Sienna 40ml

Again another perfect combination of Earth and oil... Used in mixes and as ground tone since the beginnings of…

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Burnt Sienna 40ml

No introductions needed here, earth and oil. A paint used throughout the history of art and present on most pa…

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Red Umber - 40ml

Interesting one! I expected this to have a real reddish glow like a transparent iron oxide however it doesn't …

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Transparent Red Oxide 40ml

An Iron Oxide processed to such a small pigment particle size that it shows almost lake-like characterist…

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