Oil paints are made with pigment that is suspended in a binder. Renesans uses the finest linseed and safflower oil as a binder. These are plant-based, all natural and nontoxic.
Oils for Art are unique artist grade paints produced with a sophisticated manufacturing process to meet the highest standards. They contain the best quality of traditional artist’s pigments. Additionally, there are several newly developed pigments. All of these are highly concentrated.
Opacity and glazing properties
The opacity of a pigmented colour is not only depending on the thickness of the colour application but also on the kind and concentration of the pigment as well as on the kind binder in the colour. all colours have been submitted to the same testing method: satndardized application on black and white striped saturated base. this allows a classification with the following 4 symbols:
opaque 
Semi-opaque 
Semi-transparent 
transparent
Lightfastness
This describes the durability of a colour in daylight. A number of influencing factors play a role too, like intensity of sunlight, temperature, moisture, oxygen or gas content of the air.
8 - Excellent 7 - Very good 6 - Good
Color Index and Pigments names
The Color Index system is an international standard to denominate dyes and pigments. A combination of letters and numbers indicate the colour category. For example: PO 20, means Pigment Orange 20. Color Index names are: PW (Pigment White) / PY (Pigment Yellow) / PO (Pigment Orange) / PR (Pigment Red) / PV (Pigment Violet) / PB (Pigment Blue) / PG (Pigment Green) / PBr (Pigment Brown) / PBk (Pigment Black).
01. Zinc White 02. Titanium White 04. Naples Yellow Light
05. Naples yellow red 06. Naples yellow deep 07. Zinc yellow
08. Yellow ultramarine 09. Cadmium lemon 10. Cadmium yellow (hue)
11. Cadmium yellow deep 12. Cadmium orange (hue) 13. Yellow ochre
14. Transparent gold ochre 15. Raw sienna 16. Light vermilion
17. Deep vermilion 18. Scarlet vermilion 19. Saturn red
20. Carmine 21. Pozzuoli red 22. Burnt sienna
23. Magenta lak 24. Alizarin madder lake 25. Geranium lake
26. Violet lake 27. Mnieral violet 28. Royal blue
29. Phthalo blue 30. Coeruleum 31.Mediterranean blue
32. Cobalt blue pale (hue) 33. Cobalt blue deep (hue) 34. Ultramarine
35. Prussian blue 36. Cinnabar green light 37. Cinnabar green deep
38. Paolo Veronese green 39. Permanent green 40. Emerald green (hue)
41. Hooker's green 42. Golden green 43. Olive green
44. Verona green earth 45. Raw umber 46. Burnt umber
47. Van Dycke brown 48. Pearl grey 49. Ivory black
50. Vine black 51. Higlighting titanium white 52. Titanium fast-drying white
53. Titanium white concentrate 54. Nickeltitanium yellow 55. Gamboge (hue)
56. Flesh tint light 57. Flesh tint deep 58. Flesh tint reddish
59. Indian yellow 60. Yellow lake 61. Bright rose
62. Rose dore madder lake 63. Crimson lake 64. Turquoise
65. Periwinkle 66. Paris blue 67. Indigo
68. Berlin blue 69. Green lake deep 70. Green lake light
71. Sap green 72. Bohemian green earth 73. Renesans green
74. Burnt green earth 75. Chromium oxide green 76. English red
77. Mars brown 78. Caput mortuum 79. Polish brown
80. Mars orange 81. Stil de grain brown 82. Munich lake
83. Sinopia 84. Transparent brown 85. Sepia