Here's a standard artist oil tube from Winsor & Newton at it's actual size.
What's the colour of this tube? I almost need my rarely used reading glasses to see the colour name. Now fill a paint box with these things. smear a little paint on some of them, and of course roll up the tubes as you use them.
At the one third mark you lose the little colour marker. Roll them up to the half way point and you lose the pigment name as well. Then you just have "Winsor & Newton Artist's Oil Colour" in large to remind one to never, ever, buy this dam brand again!
As much as the poor function I think it the degree of systemic stupidity that bugs me. No one in the chain of design or okaying it had the intelligence, will or power to stop this reaching production. And every time I I look at these things, I can't stop thinking about it.
What's the colour of this tube? I almost need my rarely used reading glasses to see the colour name. Now fill a paint box with these things. smear a little paint on some of them, and of course roll up the tubes as you use them.
At the one third mark you lose the little colour marker. Roll them up to the half way point and you lose the pigment name as well. Then you just have "Winsor & Newton Artist's Oil Colour" in large to remind one to never, ever, buy this dam brand again!
As much as the poor function I think it the degree of systemic stupidity that bugs me. No one in the chain of design or okaying it had the intelligence, will or power to stop this reaching production. And every time I I look at these things, I can't stop thinking about it.