Just Three Ingredients.

When people think of oil paint, they often picture something complicated — a chemistry set of solvents, thinners, and mystery additives. Mine are not that.

Vegetable oil

This is the binder — the thing that holds everything together and lets the paint spread smoothly. It's the same basic principle artists have used for centuries: pigment suspended in a drying oil, which slowly hardens as it's exposed to air. It makes up roughly half of every tube.

Calcium carbonate - Chalk!

A simple, inert mineral filler. It gives the paint body and consistency without adding any colour of its own — it's the same substance found in chalk and limestone.

Pigment

This is where the colour comes from. Every shade in your kit — from Titanium White to Prussian Blue to Burnt Umber — gets its colour from a specific pigment blended into the oil-and-filler base. Different colours use different pigments, but the basic formula stays the same.

That means:

It's not flammable. There's nothing volatile in the mixture to catch or evaporate.

There's no solvent smell to worry about. The strong "paint thinner" odour some people associate with oil painting comes from a separate product (used for cleanup or thinning) — not from the paint itself.

It's straightforward to work with. No special ventilation or handling beyond ordinary care with any craft paint.

No solvents. No added alcohol. No thinners. Just oil, filler, and pigment, mixed to a workable paste and packed into the tube.

I know a lot of people are trying oil painting for the first time through a kit like this, and it's natural to wonder what you're actually putting on your brush. The honest answer is: not much. Oil, chalk, and colour. That's it.

It's part of why I love working with this medium — it's simple by nature, even if the results don't look simple at all.