Eight pastes with extremely plastic consistency. Rich, doughy, dense and painterly. They can be spread on canvas and any other support like three-dimensional modeling materials. The pearly white of seashells, gold, silver and bronze in paste, coarse-grain quartz, stainless steel, bitumen as black and dense as asphalt and a super-light white paste to amplify thickness. Use pure.
Eight exceptional tints that capture the light and reflect and multiply it. The primary colors plus white, black and the three metal colors most in demand, formulated with latest-generation pigments. Pearlescent pigments, products to accentuate color luminosity to the hilt. Fragments of light incorporated into paint to give even more extraordinary shadings to artwork. To experiment with light directly with the paintbrush.
The Artist's daily bread and butter. Anyone - professional or amateur - who picks up a tube of Classico oil paints will find in it just what they need. Classico fine oil colours are versatile, offering an unsurpassed price to quality ratio. These colours are produced by strict principles that yield a top quality product. They revolutionise the criteria by which a economical (rated "fine") range is judged. They contain no waxes or thickeners, (no manufacturing shortcuts). The colour palette includes the best original natural earths and true cadmium pigments. Average pigment concentration is very high. Formulas are perfected to balance the drying times of all colours. Bright, lively colours with overall harmony in the palette, Classico colours are made with modern non-toxic, non-polluting pigments that improve lightfastness. All colours may be intermixed together in any ratio or proportion, without limits. All this thanks to Maimeri's vast experience, summed up in an oil line that has proven to be so successful it has become the daily workhorse of a whole generation of artists.
The Artist's daily bread and butter. Anyone - professional or amateur - who picks up a tube of Classico oil paints will find in it just what they need. Classico fine oil colours are versatile, offering an unsurpassed price to quality ratio. These colours are produced by strict principles that yield a top quality product. They revolutionise the criteria by which a economical (rated "fine") range is judged. They contain no waxes or thickeners, (no manufacturing shortcuts). The colour palette includes the best original natural earths and true cadmium pigments. Average pigment concentration is very high. Formulas are perfected to balance the drying times of all colours. Bright, lively colours with overall harmony in the palette, Classico colours are made with modern non-toxic, non-polluting pigments that improve lightfastness. All colours may be intermixed together in any ratio or proportion, without limits. All this thanks to Maimeri's vast experience, summed up in an oil line that has proven to be so successful it has become the daily workhorse of a whole generation of artists.
The Italian Natural Earth Colours are created with pigments of antique origin that have always been used to make the colours that until a few years ago characterized the regional schools of painting throughout Italy. The colours of Roman houses, of Venetian palaces, of the Umbrian or Tuscan hill-towns. They are perfectly mixable with any other type and line of oil paints and egg yolk-based temperas, and can even be used with all the mediums made for this painting technique, the colours in the Italian Natural Earth Colours series have which it is important to know about for their optimal use. The way they are formulated makes them very similar to those used in the long-ago past for oil painting, traditionally done with earth colours. Italian Natural Earth Colours have larger grain size than other oil paints currently being formulated and so create slightly opaque and rougher coats. Any differences in shine between one type of paint and another, used on the same work, can be remedied with retouching and even final varnishes. The paints may be somewhat denser than those in other series and so it may be best to thin the colour with substances like Oily Thinner, Oilyn or even just a few drops of Poppy Oil or Lavender Essence. Even when thinned, paint coverage is ensured by the maximum concentration of pigment sustainable in formulation. We recommend using bristle brushes to work or mix the paints on the palette, while generally softer brushes, to the user's taste, can be used for actual painting. The white "White Earth of Carrara" is a thin blending white, created to lessen the tonal density of the individual earth colours without interfering with the final chromatic result by altering its character, as other whites would do. As an exception it can be used pure in fairly thick coats, always bearing in mind that you will get a warm white tint offering little coverage, slightly rough to the touch and extremely soft to the eye. Slight discontinuities in colour tones are a guarantee of the authenticity and naturalness of the product, which contains no additional colorants of organic synthesis.
Oil and pure pigment, nothing else. The product of a dream and of outstanding technical achievement, Maimeri Puro superior oil colours are the most advanced and yet the most traditional of oil colours. Restoring the outstanding simplicity and quality of original oil colours to paint formulas: that was the dream of painter and paint manufacturer Gianni Maimeri, though his dream which did not take on concrete form as paste in a tube until three generations down the line. Striving for simplicity and purity, putting years of technical experience to work, Maimeri's company came up with the formulas for the 80 colours in this range one by one. Using the best quality safflower-poppy seed oils that will not yellow and stable pigments which require no additives to produce a perfect impasto, Puro offers top quality, the perfect manufacturing process and the correct balance between binder and pigment. Squeeze a tube of Maimeri Puro, and you're squeezing the very idea of oil colours.