Some paints are named after… b) the colourman who commercialised them

WHYEVER?Hues in Tubes… and how they made a name for themselvesSome paints are named after… someone who could be… You might think dozens of artists have had such a strong connection with a colour that their names would be all over the tubes but, strangely enough, there are probably more paintmakers’ names on these than…

in bed with… the Sennelier family

I could have subtitled this post “12 shades of grey” but perhaps, just perhaps mind you, it might have been going a little too far… and yet they exist: Cold grey, Blue grey, Light grey, English grey, Yellow grey, Grey green, Reddish brown grey, Medium grey, Violet grey, Grey deep, Payne’s grey, Charcoal grey… see…

Along the Left Bank of the Seine…

you can now browse into not only two but three amazingly charming and interesting art stores. Across from the Louvre, 3 Quai Voltaire, there has always been -since 1887 anyway- the delightful Sennelier shop. Sennelier is still the most comprehensive of the three stores as it represents not only their world renown brand of watercolours,…