If you love how linseed oil makes your paints flow but aren’t keen on how it yellows over time, you might want to replace it with walnut oil. While typically more expensive and slower to dry, walnut ...

WALNUT CREEK — Nancy Post Hunter picked up a paint brush again as a tonic for a stressful job. As a newly minted children’s occupational therapist at Children’s Hospital Oakland in the 1980s, she ...

Editor’s Note: David Coles is the founder and head paint-maker of Langridge Artist Colours. This is an edited extract from “Chromatopia: An Illustrated History of Color,” published by Thames & Hudson.