R&F Pigment Sticks
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- R&F Pigment Sticks® are high quality oil paint with just enough wax added to maintain a solid stick form. They bring color, texture, and immediacy, allowing you to draw and paint directly or manipulate with a palette knife, brush, or brayer. Pigment Sticks® have none of the additives, extenders, or substitutes that are commonly used in industrial production. We use only beeswax and plant wax, linseed oil, and pigment. Our formulas are complex and our manufacturing is labor-intensive, handmade in small batches, carefully milled and molded.
Colors used in this demo include: Courbet Green, King's Blue, Neutral Grey Light, Indian Yellow, Quinacridone Magenta, Cobalt Blue, Ultramarine Blue Pale, Unbleached Titanium, and Malachite Green.
Materials used in this demo include: R&F Pigment Sticks®, R&F Blending Medium, Ampersand Gessobord, Arches Oil Paper, and Gamblin Galkyd Lite. Squeegees and brayers were provided by Cold Wax Academy and can be purchased at coldwaxacademy.... The stencil used was created by R&F Core Instructor Leslie Giuliani and can be purchased on her website at lesliegiuliani....
To read a post on this demo, visit our blog Unique Color: www.rfpaints.c....
R&F’s Resources page provides downloadable articles and lists to help you find a teacher in your area, download a color chart, learn the history of encaustic, and ensure you are practicing safety in the studio: www.rfpaints.c....
Music credit: Trips by Topher Mohr and Alex Elena.
More videos with these sticks!!
Will do!!
Interesting!!! I work with water-soluble oils, would I be able to use these with them?
Just wonderful, will be using this product for my next America Muscle Car Series soon to come.
First comprehensive demo of all techniques of R&F.. Thanks!
Thanks for watching! We're delighted you enjoyed it.
And there is so much more that can be done with these! I'm a huge fan..... And user!
These R & F sticks make me feel I am looking into the window of a French bakery.......and not gaining any weight only hyper venting! Can you tell me how you keep that gel pad so clean or do you just use a new one for each demo?????
I used Baby Oil and a paper towel to wipe it off between prints. And I am so glad you enjoyed the view from our bakery. :)
This video is making me hungry to get back to working with these. There's nothing like the richness, creaminess and delicious colors of R & F paint sticks.
We love them too! There is nothing else that comes close. :)
I 2nd that! I'm sooo glad it's spring and I can get outside and paint with them!
They are very good tools for drawing. but dry too slow. especially Black.
Nice to see such options for these sticks! I bought for use in encaustic work but hadn’t considered the use in some of these other applications!
We're so glad you found the video helpful and inspiring!!
The background music at the start of this video made my dog bark lol.
That's so funny! :) Thanks for sharing.
mine too!!
These are in my wish list.
Great timing in watching this video. I just did the first layer on a Gelli plate. While waiting for it to dry, I watch this video. I am going to use just one of my pigment sticks for the color of the second layer. Wahooo!
A suggestion- if possible go back in and add name of each color used... might need to do some shopPING. Thx.
That's a great suggestion! I just edited the description info so viewers can find out all the colors we used. Here they are for your shopping pleasure: Courbet Green, King's Blue, Neutral Grey Light, Indian Yellow, Quinacridone Magenta, Cobalt Blue, Ultramarine Blue Pale, Unbleached Titanium, and Malachite Green.
@@rfpaints all my favorites...love them
@@edyerae1000 thank you!! So glad to hear that.
are pigment sticks suitable for wall art? for interior use
So creative.
Can you use the colors on fabric?
We wouldn't recommend using the Pigment Sticks directly on fabric without some sizing and/or ground. The linseed oil in the sticks is likely to deteriorate the fabric over time
I am completely new to this amazing art. Learning how to use all of the different techniques to create something awe-inspiring is my mission. Thank you to each and everyone of you who share your remarkable skills and techniques, leaving nothing out, so that the ones who come after you can learn and grow into their own, is the most precious gift of all! You are the true forefathers / forepersons who set the bar! I, myself am so very grateful and proud to walk in your footprints! I bow down to you all!
Hello explain using the wax sticks with prints? Do you always blending Solution. What’s the difference between melting the wax and painting and using the sticks to paint do you not melt them in the video I was just watching I just saw someone using blending solution not any melting is that because it’s an oil stick versus the wax bars please let me know thanks
Our Pigment Sticks are a high quality tube oil in a stick form. They are a completely different paint line from our encaustic paint cakes. We do not recommend melting Pigment Sticks. For more information on working with Pigment Sticks, check out our website. We have a great resource section devoted exclusively to this product line: www.rfpaints.com/articles-links. Good luck!
What is the pallet material you are mixing on? It appears to be aluminum?? Also, once dry, does anything (ie varnish) need to be applied to the surface?
I mixed color on Jack Richeson Grey Matters Paper Palette. Once your piece is dry you can treat it like you would any oil painting - which includes varnishing it if you wish.
Hi how long does it take for an artwork made with pigment sticks to dry. Does it take months. Also can pigment sticks be used on top of a acrylic paintings. Also are they Ap approved or non toxic? Thanks so much. Thinking of buying these soon.
Hello! Thanks for your question. Drying times depend on a number of factors including humidity, temperature, how thickly they are applied, and what particular color you are using (the actual pigment itself can affect drying time). We did a blog post on this recently that you might find helpful. Here is a link: www.rfpaints.com/unique-color/2021/2/8/ask-richard-drying-times-for-pigment-sticks.
In regards to the second part of your question, here's a bit of information. The "AP" designation is a trademarked symbol created by the Art and Creative Materials Institute which is a for-profit toxicology group. We work with a our own Board Certified toxicologist who reviews all our materials to make sure that we meet the requirements of ASTM D4236, LHAMA as well as other regulatory labeling standards. When a pigment or other ingredient is considered hazardous we state that on the label but even when none is present we do not use the term "non-toxic".
@@rfpaints Hello thank you so much for the response. I really appreciate it. I think I read the drying time info on the website before hand, but I guess I wanted to find out what is a minimum drying time overall. I am exhibiting professional contemporary art painter. I usually use acrylic paint. So wanted to try something new with these pigment sticks. They act like oil paints right. So they could not dry in a day or week? And can they be used on top of a Acrylic painting ?
@@bekind7885 There is no minimum drying time because it depends on the color, how thickly you apply it, and the humidity in your studio. It could take a few days if it's a thin layer of a quicker drying Pigment Stick or a week or longer if you apply it thickly. Just to be safe, you want to give yourself as much time as possible for work to dry before presenting it to a gallery. Yes, they can be used on top of an acrylic painting.
How do you clean the gel plate if using pigment sticks? Blending medium, oil? Is there something you have to the gel plate in order to go back to using acrylic? Like a thorough clean? If so what cleaning item would that be? Or is it easier to have a plate dedicated to oil and another dedicated to acrylic?
It is probably easiest to have separate plates, but we used Baby oil to clean the plate and then washed it with soap and water. That did the trick. Have fun creating!
Does anyone have any experience using these sticks for doing weathering effects, highlighting etc. on scale models? I'm thinking they might be used the way oil paints are used for weathering techniques. Can they be thinned with regular white spirit or does it require the proprietary thinner?
You can treat Pigment Sticks the same way you would any high quality tube oil.
I just bought a couple of these pigment sticks and they are so luscious. What kind of paper can I use them on? For example, can I use standard watercolor paper with a couple coats of gesso?? Thanks!
We encourage experimentation, but recommend Arches Oil Paper. Our Pigment Sticks are best used with any papers that are prepared for oil-based media. Good luck!
@@rfpaints thanks!!
can I use R&F pigment sticks on a collage that was made with Golden Matt Medium?
Yes, these would work on an acrylic base like Golden Matte Medium.
Where do you find the metal scraping tool (like the rake)? Thanks
That tool is from Sculpture House. It's called a wax scraper. Looks like they don't have the medium sized version I used in the demo anymore, but they have a smaller and a larger version, both of which are on sale. Here's a link: www.sculpturehouse.com/p-989-small-straight-scraper-for-clay-and-encaustics.aspx
Excellent video, so much you can do with RF pigment sticks!
Thanks Eileen!!
This is perfect !
I live in Malaysia. Do you have any local sellers/suppliers there? I tried to search for it and fail.
Hi Mika! I just did a quick search on our store finder. We do not have any local sellers in Malaysia. I think the closest retailer would be in the Philippines. The Oil Paint Store
2115 Manuel Hizon St, Santa Cruz, Manilla, 1014 Metro Manila, PHILIPPINES.
@@rfpaints oh my, that us an ocean away
What is a gel plate for cold mono print making? Do you make them yourself or do you buy them somewhere?
Hi Lori. A gel plate is literally a clear gel-based plate. There are several companies that manufacture them. You can find one at your local art supply store or online. Good luck!
@@rfpaints Thank you so much! I found it at Jerry's. What a great new tool to have!
was a Gel Plate used for the printing? Its not listed....how do you clean it after if it was a Gel plate?
Yes - we did use a gel plate in this demo. We clean it with baby oil and then wash with soap and water.
then more gel plate pigment stick demos, please! Did the demos use a thinner stick size?
@@selenadixon3108 we used our 38ml Pigment Sticks for this demo.
When you were using the geli plate, and creating the circles what kind of paper did you use? Wondering, because this could be placed into a collage.
I was using Japanese rice paper. You can definitely collage it. Artist Deb Claffey teaches some different monoprinting and collage techniques. Here's a link if you want to check out her offerings: debraclaffey.com/workshops/
@@rfpaints what adhesive would you use, - rice paste?
@@susanernst1329 you can collage it into your encaustic painting using encaustic medium. Our newest demo video shows you a few different ways to incorporate paper!
Excellent! Have not tried on my gel plate!!
Enjoy!! Also keep an eye on workshops by Debra Claffey - she shows how to pull monoprints and incorporate them into your paintings. debraclaffey.com/workshops/
WHat did you thin it with in the video? It looked like and oil.
What material are you using ofr a pallet?
Hi Linda. I'm not quite sure I understand your question. We listed all the materials used in the description notes. Let us know if you still have a question about one of the materials featured in this demo.
I'm wondering if you were referring to the palette paper I was using. It is Jack Richeson Grey Matters Paper Palette. Let me know if this answers your question!
Yes! Thankyou
why no olive greeen?
We make 16 different greens in our Pigment Stick line. You can find all of our colors on our website here: www.rfpaints.com/pigment-stick-color-line. There are a few that might meet your needs for olive green.
Nice but to expensive, even for the more sensitive frugal pro.
Most art supplies is…
These are my favorite paint sticks, and I love working with them, unfortunately I can’t afford them.
Get a couple at a time
LOVE R&F pigment sticks! Always looking for fun and different ways to use them!
So glad you are enjoying them and hopefully we provided a few new ideas... :)
Honestly....these artists that can not truly paint are getting tiresome. You would think that R&F and WINSOR NEWTON could find SOMEONE to actually paint something and show others how to create beautiful artwork instead of just making messes and calling it art.
…Huh? These were demonstrations. The purpose is to demonstrate the use of the pigment sticks, not the showcase the abilities of the artist. Just because you don’t like what they’ve done/created, doesn’t mean they “can’t paint.”
I think it was more to show off the textures lol relax