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Gamblin Oil Paints and Mediums have arrived!

Gamblin oil colors are luscious, intense, pigment-rich colors. Colors that do not succumb to age. Colors true to historic working properties, in a palette carefully constructed by America's premier colorman.

Rather than copy any other style of paintmaking, Robert Gamblin developed his own. Made from the finest quality raw materials, Gamblin's oil paints invite artists to enjoy each color's unique tinting strength, transparency and texture.

Similarly, Robert organized Gamblin's palette to help artists best match materials to their artistic intent. Our colors are grouped by era of pigment history and organized according to their position in color space.

- from the Gamblin website

Gamblin FastMatte Alkyd Oil Colors are formulated to give oil painters a fast-drying oil color with excellent working properties and permanence.  The balanced color palette allow for great color mixing potential in a variety of oil painting techniques and styles.  When used for underpainting, the matte surface allows for maximum adhesion with subsequent layers.

Free gift of FASTMATTE trial 3 pack (Titanium White, Ultramarine Blue, Transparent Earth Red) or trail size Gamsol, Galkyd Lite, Neo Megilp or .37ml tube of Ultramarine Blue Artist Color. Limited Quantities!

Free .37ml tube of FASTMATTE Titanium White with the purchase of 4 tubes of Artist Oil Paints

Limited Quantities!

Artist Oil Colors

Mediums

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Gamblin Artist's Colors Dry Pigments

These pigments are the same used to create Gamblyn Artist Oil Colors. You can use them to create paints using different binders including Encaustic Medium.

2011 Gamblin Torrit Grey Painting Competition

"If you took all the pigments in the color spectrum and mixed them together, what color would you make?

Every spring, Gamblin Artists Colors collects a wealth of pigments from our Torit® Air Filtration system. We filter the air around the areas where we handle dry pigments so that our workers are not exposed to pigment dust. Rather than sending any of our high quality, expensive pigments into the landfill, Gamblin paint makers recycle them into "Gamblin Torrit Grey".

"Pigment dust should not go into the earth, water or landfill, but into paint," says Robert Gamblin.

Gamblin Torrit Grey on CopperThe mix of pigments is different every year, so Torrit Grey is always unique and will never be repeated. Torrit Grey tends to have a greenish tinge because of the great strength of the Phthalo Green pigment, which is a dark bluish green. Torrit Grey varies from a medium dove grey to a dark earthy grey.

We are now dating the tubes, so artists can collect them from year to year and enjoy the unique qualities of each edition. Whatever you create with these popular limited edition colors is solely up to you and your imagination.

Our Torrit Grey store promotion, which runs each year through the end of April in celebration of Earth Day, not only recycles pigment dust into paint but focuses artists on the importance of recycling, studio and environmental safety. Complimentary 37ml tubes of Torrit Grey are only available while supplies last through your local fine art materials retailer. Last year, we distributed more than 11,000 tubes of Torrit Grey! Limitations are often your greatest creative assets and it is remarkable what talented artists can achieve with a color palette limited to white, or black and Torrit Grey.

The Torrit Grey Painting Competition, conducted annually in the Fall, attracts more entries every year. In 2009, we received over 160 submissions from painters willing to take the challenge of making a value based painting using only Torrit Grey and any black or white oil paint. The competition is judged by Robert Gamblin and the winners receive a supply of Gamblin Artists' materials.

Come into Van Gogh's Gear and pick up a free tube and enter the competition.

Inks

FW Artists' Acrylic Inks

"The major development of inks in recent years has been the increasing use of pigments and acrylic resins. The differences between the dye based inks and the pigmented inks were slight reduction in colour intensity, but much improved resistance to fading.

FW Artists’ Ink is an acrylic based pigmented water resistant ink (on most surfaces) in a range of 38 colours, all of which have either a 3 or 4 star rating for permanence. Such a high degree of lightfastness over such a range of fully intermixable colours makes them ideal for use by artists in the production of pictures for permanent display.

Equally, however, colours can be substantially diluted to achieve the most subtle of tones, very similar in character to watercolour. Such washes will dry to a water resistant film on virtually all surfaces and successive layers of colour can be laid over a highly predicable manner. FW Artists’ Inks work well through airbrushes and technical pens." from Daler-Rowney website.

Regular $5.99

Pearlescent $5.09

New Encaustic Products

Cold Flexible Tools

The Cold Flexible Tools can be used with or without heat to create a refined surface. Designed after the tools that the first practitioners of encaustic used in ancient times these tools bring a modern sensibility to today's encaustic artist.

These tools are made of high carbon steel and are expertly finished.

4 Tool Set
$56.89

Encaustic Color Sets

Encaustic Color Sets are designed to present artists with a wide palette of color choices at an economical price, 20% off open stock prices. Select from four vibrant sets (each including six 40ml cakes) that offer many interesting color combinations and are packaged in a free cradled 6" x 6" Encausticbord™.

Cadmium Set
$67.02

Starter Set
$59.50