Paint List is an independent artists’ paint testing, review and information website and YouTube channel created by Melissa Carmon and Jonathan Myers.
I’m not sure how I was unaware of this until now; there is quite a bit of accumulated material, though the YouTube channel was only started two years ago.
This is an excellent, well arranged, highly searchable and useful index of artists’ paint information that can be accessed an a number of ways.
From the home page you can search for a brand, pigment name, or pigment index code, and sort initially by medium. Once with a search you can click “Open Filters” and refine your search from there, including by additional criteria specific to the medium, such as different binders for oil paints.
There are in depth articles and reviews as well as brief blog posts.
The YouTube channel, while less extensive, features informative, pleasantly and effectively presented reviews of various brands (such as their review of Vasari Classic Artists’Oil Colors), and topics comparing the same pigment in different brands or spotlighting individual pigments.
They point out that the site is supported by affiliate links, but from what I’ve seen, I don’t think they let that interfere with their desire to be accurate and even-handed in their reviews.
