Gamblin Artist Oils Radiants, Blacks & Greys, Whites

Gamblin Artist Oils give artists the tools to paint in any style they choose, with confidence in the permanence of their work and the safety of their studio. The luscious artist-grade oil colors are made with pure pigments and only the finest refined linseed oil.

Colours are divided into Radiants, Greys, Whites, Blacks, Mineral, Modern, Metallic, Fast Matte.

Radiant Colors: 8 high-intensity tints - mixtures of pure color and white - at Value 7 on the Munsell System evenly spaced around the color wheel. Using the Radiant tints, painters can build traditional under paintings, then glaze for optical effects of light and shade - enabling painters of today to explore a technique of the past.
Using tints (pure color + white), painters can make the brightest paintings. Using shade [pure color + black], painters can make deep, luminous paintings, accenting with white and tints. Using tone [pure color + white + black], painters can build paintings by value of pure light tints and grey.

Blacks & Greys

While overusing black in a painting will make it look dirty, neutral greys made from black and white are the same as neutral greys made from exact complements. Greys made from complements are more lively because they are incomplete mixtures of one color next to another. So come back to black with Gamblin Chromatic Black, a neutral, tinting black made from complementary colors.
An interesting alternative to mixing with white, the Portland Greys quickly lower the intensity of a color without changing its Munsell value.

Whites

When selecting white oil colors, consider tinting strength. The more opaque the white, the higher its tinting strength and the more it will "reduce" the color. The higher the tinting strength, the lighter the value of the color/white mixture (tint).

Radiant White, the most buttery white, and Titanium White have the highest tinting strength. Excellent for direct painting styles, they make the brightest, most opaque tints and will reflect the highest percentage of light off the painting surfaces.

The Flake White Replacement : Gamblin's version, matches the working properties generally considered typical of Lead White: warm in color, a dense and heavy paste with a long and "ropey" quality, and a unique look to the impasto stroke.
Whites are arranged from most opaque to least opaque.

For detailed information on each colour please go to www.gamblincolours.com