Stephen Quiller Watercolors
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Quiller Watercolors that if you purchase over $100 of any other brand
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Made in the traditional stone ground milling process.
Many years ago, Jack Richeson made the decision to
develop and then manufacture a top line
of watercolor. He was convinced that he
could whip up a formula in minutes and
enter the market in weeks. How naive we
can all be at times. It was in 1994 when he
first consulted with his late dear friend,
Zoltan Szabo.
"Zoltan was a gentle man but a demanding
monster when it came to watercolor. Thank
goodness he was my friend because he
made the lectures gentle. I consulted the
Ralph Meyer Book, I read Hilary Page’s
great book and then studied the several
books by Wilcox. I had many discussions
with several old Grumbacher color
chemists. I also had many discussions with
famous color maker Jacques Blockx.
"Two things became obvious.
1. My "quickie" watercolor project
would not be quick and certainly not painless.
2. So much of the information
was not fact but in many cases opinion from a variety
of very learned people. The problem was
that the opinions started out the same and
became very different as you got deeper
into the project.
"Six times I threw away all that I had done
and seven times I started over. Finally I
started having long serious conversations
with Stephen Quiller. Steve’s opinions ran
very close to those of Zoltan Szabo’s.
Although the two greats had different
styles, strong threads tying the varying
opinions started to surface. I then began
to study the work of Tom Lynch, Chris Van
Winkle, Tom Fong and Milford Zornes.
"Always going back to Zoltan and Steve
Quiller, the basis for the line started to
develop. My dear friend and great advisor
Zoltan Szabo passed away in 2003. I will
miss him always. The burden then shifted
totally to my friend Steve Quiller. There
were many times that I would ask him
‘
why that company’s red’ or ‘why just
one color in that brand? What do you
mean by staining colors?’
"But with all of his input, we still had the
problem of ‘lightfastness’ and health safety.
After nine years and tons of headaches, I
believe that we have developed the true
professional watercolor. The paint is made
through the traditional stone ground
milling process. The color is pure, and it’s
expensive, but as a collector, it’s what I
want the artist to use in any watercolor that
I buy. In my den at home, I have the first
watercolor that I ever purchased. I was
making $78.00 a week as a truck driver at
the time and I paid four hundred dollars
for the painting. Now 54 years later, I have
this white framed paper hanging on my
wall. All that is left of the beautiful artwork
is a pale ghost of the artist’s work.
"I truly believe that the Stephen Quiller
range of watercolors is the finest ever
made. Available in 35 colors in 15ml
open stock tubes and sets."
"I think
these paints are fantastic. The mineral colors, and there are many,
have an incredible granulation. This is
very important to me because I am a
landscape painter and texture is critical.
I noticed years ago that John Singer
Sargent's watercolor paintings –
particularly when using ultramarine
blue – have this type of granulation.
I have ordered this color from many
different companies but all of their
milling is too fine and the granulation
does not happen.
"What I am saying is that there is a
character to these colors that is unique
and while it may not be for every
painter, there will be many that will
respond to these paints if they know
all they have to offer." - Stephen Quiller |
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