Not too long ago for my birthday my wifey bought me some dry pigments/muller/glass to start making my own paints. This not only is cheaper than buying tubes of paint, but the quality of paint is pure without any additives. Straight up pigment and cold pressed linseed oil. I bought some empty tubs the other day and will experiment with tubing the paint I've been mixing. I have to mix correctly and disperse the oil throughout the pigment and not add too much oil or else when I open the tube to go use the paint, oil with flow out without paint! not good. We'll see what happens... I went out looking for pigment stores around NYC. At first I checked out - http://guerrapaint.com/ which is fairly close to my house by subway. I went in and asked about linseed oil. The guy chuckled a bit. Soooo I guess you don't have any? Well I guess Guerra paint is all about acrylics. The guy was really nice and showed me how to mix my own acrylics and the possibilities I had no idea acrylics could achieve. BUT I paint in oils so no thanks. He did have an assortment of dry pigments though so I picked a bunch up to try. Next stop was http://kremerpigments.com which wasn't too much further away. Aaah yes, this is my kind of store. The guys were really nice there and I picked up a liter of swedish cold pressed linseed oil for $25. Seriously if you go to Pearl or Dick Blick and want to buy cold pressed, a liter will cost at least $45, no thanks.... They had everything you could want and at very good prices. I'll be back. Hopefully I'll have some work up soon. Moving was a bitch and getting settled in NYC is even harder, but I'm getting inspired finally and the studio is pretty much set up.