GENESIS ARTISTS COLOURS
“With Genesis you can just start painting each session without wasting time preparing your palette.”
When Genesis Heat Set Oil paints were developed, they had all artists in mind, including artists who suffered with allergies from using the traditional solvent based oils, and users of acrylics who fought the quick drying times and the loss of that brilliant lustre and sheen found only in oils. Genesis Heat-Set Oils were developed many years ago by two professional artists living in Hawaii. They required an artists’ medium that had the highest light fastness and permanence rating available for archival qualities. It also needed to allow artists to be in total and complete control of their paint’s drying time. No matter what the climatic conditions were, it would need to stay in a wet and workable state for as long as the artist required - whether it was for an hour, a day, a week, a month or a year or two.
For many years Genesis Heat-Set Oil Paints have been regarded by many as the world’s most versatile, quality fine artist paint ever made. It also provides today’s artists and students with a wonderfully safe medium to work with, without enduring harmful toxins or solvents found in many artists mediums. Not only are they non toxic, they are also odour free and contain NO heavy metals.
Due to their very high pigment content, colours are strong and vibrant, even after drying. Unlike acrylics there is no colour shift from wet to dry state. Genesis instantly gives your paintings depth and allows far better coverage. A tiny amount goes a long way. Of the 87 colours in the Genesis range, 79 colours are in category 1 for light fastness, and eight are in category 2 (diox/purple values). The full range of paints, mediums and varnishes all conform to ATSM D-4236 standards, guaranteeing strong archival qualities. Genesis Heat-Set Oil Paints are not solvent or water based. The paint has its own specially formulated base carrier. The full range of colours and their mediums are all certified Odourless and Non-Toxic, which allows the many artists who suffer from allergies to get back to or commence using oils.
“Genesis Heat-Set Oil Paint allows you to work wet on wet, or wet on dry. No stopping and waiting like conventional oils force you to do.”
Genesis also has a Thinning Medium for when you want finer control or detail, Glazing Gel for layering and a Thick Medium Extender for impasto style painting. The Thick Medium can also be used to make the paint go
