Born in 1980, Michael Klein was nineteen when he began his serious training in classical ateliers and workshops. His first teacher was Richard Whitney. One of New Hampshire's most prominent portrait painters, and a pupil to the teaching of R.H. Ives Gammell of the Boston School Tradition. After two years with workshop classes under Whitney's guidance, Klein continued studying in Minneapolis at the former atelier Lack which was founded by Richard Lack, a classical painter whose efforts were largely responsible for the revival of traditional painting in the United States. Seeking to broaden his education, Klein then left his home in the midwest to move east, where he began studies at the Art Students League of New York, most notably under the tutelage of portraitist Nelson Shanks. In 2002, Klein entered what would become his final school, the Water Street Atelier (now Grand Central Atelier), where he apprenticed under founder Jacob Collins until 2005.
His passion is to depict an accurate representation of our human experience interacting with the created order around us. By poetically blending pigments from the earth, adding oil, and his inborn artistic capability he recreates the world around us and injects his personal spirit into each piece throughout the process. Due to many years training in the classical tradition under well known artists, Klein has emphasized that working from life is an important part of the creative process. Michael Klein
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Inorganic – No. 113 is an obviously beautiful mid-blue. The discovery in the 1820s of a Sodium Sulphosilicate compound, which had appeared as a mysterious blue deposit on soda-ash furnaces, was a liberating moment for financially challenged artists everywhere. Up to then the only available version of this compound was the often-unobtainable Lapis Lazuli ore, mined in Afghanistan. Ultramarine has a high tint power, and our chosen shade produces strong green shade blue hues and makes wonderful violets with Magenta and the red Lake colours. It is also useful in greens and greys. The only chemical weakness is a recorded sensitivity to atmospherically borne acids, which can bleach it out. Ultramarine Blue is one of the more difficult paints to make, as it forms an intractable runny syrup when first ground into oil, which must then be stabilized with a small amount of wax.
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Organic – Michael Hardings Caribbean Turquoise is made from organic pigments, is transparent and fast-drying, and has a high tint power. Turquoise is one of many coveted ancient gems, adored by the Egyptians and carved by Chinese artisans more than 3000 years ago. Turquoise has long been considered a stone that guarantees health, good fortune, and protection from evil. Where might one go nowadays for good health, good fortune, and protection from evil? Let yourself be swept off the beach and into the ocean for that refreshing, long-deserved break in beautiful, tropical islands. Michael created Caribbean Turquoise because whether you paint like an Old Master, a famous Plein Air painter, or a Modern Abstract artist, this colour will help create the mood you want to convey with the stroke of a brush to canvas.
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Inorganic – Introduced at about the same time as Ultramarine, Cobalt Aluminate is a synthetic, inorganic pigment. It is more greenish-blue, with a heavier, more mineral appearance when seen as a dry pigment. The hues formed from it are correspondingly heavier and greyer. But it has a certain shade that the less expensive ultramarine cannot quite match. The paint film, when cured, is quite soft.
PLANT BASED – SOLVENT FREE.
Our Miracle Medium™ Resin Oil Wax Medium is a soft painting paste, derived from pure bleached beeswax then mixed with dammar resin and linseed stand oil, and MH Miracle Medium™. This popular medium creates a satin sheen and gentle impasto in paint layers.
– Blend with oil paints to create a resin-oil wax mixture, offering unique handling and textural effects.
– Provides artists with the ability to alter the body and surface quality of oil paints for varied artistic expressions.
ADD 5-10% TO OIL COLOUR AS NEEDED.
Ingredients:
Miracle Medium, Bleached Beeswax, Dammar Resin, Linseed Stand Oil.
Settling of the medium may occur so allow jar to stand in hot water and stir contents until dissolved.
Available in 100ml and 250ml
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Inorganic & Organic Mix – Brilliant Pink is luminous and has an intense presence. The complementary vibrations it sets up with the greens, particularly Emerald Green, have to be seen to be believed. It forms a lean surface, and since the red is supplied by Quinacridone, a permanent organic pigment, the undertones are bluish yet warm, and are disclosed in further hues and mixes.
Essentially a Walnut oil based Oleogel.
Walnut Oil Gel is a thixotropic (meaning the more it is worked the more fluid it becomes) painting medium made with walnut oil and pyrogenic silica. lt is a clear pale amber gel that adds transparency and thixotropic body to paint. Add pigments or extenders to thicken it for creating impasto effects that do not sink in. It will increase the drying time of oil paint.
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Organic – Bright Yellow Lake is an arylide organic lake pigment. It has an incredibly high oil content and transparency, with an enormous tint power that shoots through mixes with a pervasive range of bottle green undertones. Beginners should handle this paint with care when adding it to other paints. It can heighten the Phthalo Lakes without making them opaque, and when it is made itself opaque with the addition of white, the results are almost luminous.
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Organic – Michael Harding formulated this blend of organic pigments Arylide Yellow and Phthalo Green to fill the gap previously occupied by the Lead Chromate Greens, long discontinued by manufacturers because of their tendencies to darken or react with other paints. This paint differs from them not only in being a permanent lake but also in sheer power. A fruity, loud, tropical green with exotic undertones, it almost fluoresces on its own and cuts right into mixes to reveal light, sappy yellows.