Wax prevents oil/pigment separation into tube. It is also a matte agent. Not a filler, adding above 5% by volume into paint it can reduce adhesive properties. It is always bleed to the surface because of high migratory properties. And it makes paint film weaker. It can slightly plasticize paint film.

For a pigment list, go to Jerrysartarama.com and search for Lukas 1862. There will be a list of colors. On the line of color that you’re interested in, on the right will be a yellow box with a T in it. Click on that and it will list the pigments in that particular tube. Hope this helps.

Bradicus, I like the Charvins, but I think the Extra Fine are overpriced. I would compare them to a “good” (but not top-end) brand, like maybe Rembrandt or something. I’ve had a number of tubes arrive to me already well-stiffened in the tube. That makes me leery of buying many more of them, since it’s a hassle to have to return them.

I use plenty of the Charvin Fine (the cheaper line of paints, only available in 150 mL tubes) because I like the custom mixtures, like pale blue, etc. They seem fine to me but I’m not expecting top-end paints with them. I try to buy them when I can get a deal of around $10 a tube. Funny, I don’t recall getting a Charvin Fine tube from Jerry’s that is already really stiff. It’s mostly the Charvin Extra Fine (the really expensive ones) that come that way.

Lukas 1862 hasn’t had the problem (for me) of being stiff in the tube when it ships, but a few tubes have gotten stiffer over a year or so, in storage. Their price is so much more reasonable, however, that it’s not as much of a financial risk to order them. I encourage you to order a few of the smaller tubes and see what you think!

I can paint with everything, which have the name “paint” because I can add something to make pleasant working properties of any paint. The only interesting thing I like to see, is a list of pigment numbers.

But one thing can turn my head: GERMAN QUALITY! German’s paint quality is a philosophers’ stone of ART, a magic fluid, a mirage of Martian gold deposits, can give a sparkling effect to any boring piece of contemporary art!

I have never been one to be very enthused with beeswax as an addition to oil paints. It may be good for lubricating bagpipe fittings, but I leave it out of my paint, and mediums.:D