Gamsol is the safest solvent that allows oil painters to utilise all traditional painting techniques without compromise.

Primary Uses for Gamsol: Thinning oil colours. A little goes a long way; stiff oil colours relax immediately when a little Gamsol is added. Be careful not to thin oil colours too much with solvent alone, this can compromise the ability of the paint to form a paint film. Modifying painting mediums. Gamblin's Galkyd line of painting mediums is formulated with Gamsol, so they readily accept Gamsol as a thinning agent.

Note: Gamsol should not be added to painting mediums made with natural resins (dammar, copal, mastic). They require strong solvents such as turpentine.

Studio clean up: brushes, palettes, palette knives, etc.

How does Gamsol achieve this level of performance and safety? Most solvents available to artists come from the industrial paint industry where solvent power and cheapness is prized. Gamsol is special: it is made for products and processes that come into more intimate contact with the body such as cosmetics, hand cleaners, and cleaning food service equipment. Gamsol is a petroleum distillate but all the aromatic solvents have been refined out of it, less than .005% remains. Aromatic solvents are the most harmful types of petroleum solvents. These facts are detailed in the MSDS for Gamsol, this document shows that it has an Exposure Limit Value higher than most solvents available to artists. All of these factors have lead to Gamsol being used widely in oil painting classrooms; in those classes there are no solvent odours, only the wonderful smell of oil colours.

PB29 Fast Drying. Transparent. Excellent Lightfastness. Average Oil Content. An obviously beautiful mid blue.

Color number/code: 644

Series number: 1

Chemical Description: Titanium dioxide, Zinc oxide

Color index name: PW6, PW4

Color index number: 77891, 77947

Permanence rating: AA

ASTM Lightfastness Rating: I







Every Winsor & Newton Artists' Oil Colour is individually formulated to enhance each pigment's natural characteristics and ensure stability of colour. By exercising maximum quality control throughout all stages of manufacture, selecting the most suitable drying oils and method of pigment dispersion, the unique individual properties of each colour are preserved.

Combined with over 170 years of manufacturing and quality control expertise, the formulation of Artist's Oil Colour ensures the best raw materials are made into the world's finest colours.

Artists' Oil Colour uses the highest level of pigmentation consistent with the broadest handling properties. The quantity of pigment used provides covering power and tinting strength.







Transparency/Opacity: O

The best quality/price ratio on the market. Oil colour with performance superior to price. A fine, appropriate, satisfying investment. Rewarding for the disproportion between qualitative factors and purchase price. A product that repays. Artisanal, frequently used, superfine. Seventy-seven colours, an infinite assortment of yellows, reds, greens and blues. Absolutely no waxes or additives. Perfectly balanced drying times. The ideal combination of modern and traditional pigments, safe and stable.

Canson® Graduate Oil & Acrylic pads feature thick white paper, with a high-performance, durable and absorbent coating. Containing 20 sheets of 290gsm paper, they are perfect to learn oil and acrylic techniques and achieve optimal results!

Canson® Graduate Oil & Acrylic pads feature thick white paper, with a high-performance, durable and absorbent coating. Containing 20 sheets of 290gsm paper, they are perfect to learn oil and acrylic techniques and achieve optimal results!

Colour: Michael Harding Warm White (Lead White Alternative)Pigment Index: PY42 PW6OpaqueLightfastness: ExcellentPrice Series: 1This warm and opaque white is excellent for artists who want a lead like paint. Great mixing colour. Michael Harding Oil Colours are among the finest oil paints available to artists today. The colours have a high load of top quality pigments, ground in refined cold-pressed linseed oil. They are completely free of fillers, extenders, or driers, resulting in pure, rich, and vibrant colours that are lightfast and buttery.First manufactured in 1982, Michael Harding Artists' Oil Colours are exceptional quality and are made by hand. They are very popular with some of the world's finest artists, including David Hockney, Chris Ofili, and the late Sir Howard Hodgkin.pdf=michaelhardincacc.pdf Michael Harding Oil Colour Chart.

PW 6 Titanium Dioxide. PW4 Zinc Oxide. Very slow Dryer, Very Opaque, Excellent Lightfastness, High Tint Power, Non-toxic.

Safflower oil dries to a robust film, which means that this paint can be overpainted with a low risk of later cracking. It yellows comparably less to linseed oil, and handles in a similar way. This is the most brilliant non-toxic White in the range, suitable for cool, opaque light hues, and generally as a highly keyed mixer.

Series number: 1

Chemical Description: Zinc oxide, Titanium dioxide

Colour index name: PW4, PW6

Colour index number: 77947, 77891

Permanence rating: AA

ASTM Lightfastness Rating: I

Transparency/Opacity: O

A high level of pigmentation provides good covering power and tinting strength. While it can't match the superior pigment load of Artists' Oil Colour, the Winton range is much stronger than many other artists' quality ranges.The economical cost has been achieved through the use of moderately priced pigments rather than lessening the pigment content to an unacceptable level. Winsor & Newton formulation, manufacture and quality control ensure a product of absolute excellence. The Winton range has a more uniform consistency than Artists' Oil Colour and is slightly stiffer. It offers excellent retention of brush and palette knife strokes.

Simply Oils are affordable colours that can be used to paint on all conventional oil painting surfaces. These soft-bodied colours can be used straight from the tube as they wet easily onto the surface.

Colour: Blue Grey
Pigment Index: PB29 PW6 PBk9
Colour Lightfastness: Good
Colour Transparency: Opaque

Traditionally crafted and triple-milled in England, Georgian Oil Colours provide colour consistency from wet to dry and an even performance and finish across all colours.

With a smooth and buttery consistency, Georgian Oil Colours are ideal for experimenting with different brush and knife techniques. They are intermixable and have high pigment loads, including traditional pigments such as cadmium and cobalt. Georgian Oil Colours generally require very limited quantities of medium, so they can be used straight from the tube. All colours are lightfast and rated as Excellent (****) or Good (***). The surface is typically dry in 4 to 5 days.

Daler-Rowney Graduate Oil is an affordable range of oil paints ideal for students and hobbyists looking for reliability and performance. Graduate Oil colours are smooth, easy to use, and mix well together, drying to a low gloss satin sheen within 5 days.

Jackson's Professional Oil Paints are made by skilled artisans, using only the finest grade pigments and the purest refined oils to create colours that are rich and vibrant. The intense colour saturation and purity of this range is achieved by high pigment loading coupled with our traditional production process. We don't use drying modifiers to even out drying times and so you will find some variation across the range reflecting the natural drying characteristics of each pigment. MEK and MEKO are not used in any Jackson's oil paints.

Jackson's Artist Oil Paints are made in the UK by combining high-quality modern pigments and refined linseed oils to create colours that are permanent and lightfast.

These colours are carefully considered to provide a full palette and are made to high standards, ensuring they are luminous, vibrant, and full of character.

These intense colours can be squeezed from the tube and used as they are, or mixed with mediums to alter consistency and sheen. Jackson's Artist Oils do not contain metallic stearates, industrial fillers or anti-skinning agents.

Colour: Lamp Black
Pigment Index: PBk7
Colour Lightfastness: Excellent
Colour Transparency: Opaque

Traditionally crafted and triple-milled in England, Georgian Oil Colours provide colour consistency from wet to dry and an even performance and finish across all colours.

With a smooth and buttery consistency, Georgian Oil Colours are ideal for experimenting with different brush and knife techniques. They are intermixable and have high pigment loads, including traditional pigments such as cadmium and cobalt. Georgian Oil Colours generally require very limited quantities of medium, so they can be used straight from the tube. All colours are lightfast and rated as Excellent (****) or Good (***). The surface is typically dry in 4 to 5 days.

Color number/code: 644

Series number: 1

Chemical Description: Titanium dioxide, Zinc oxide

Colour index name: PW6, PW4

Colour index number: 77891, 77947

Permanence rating: AA

ASTM Lightfastness Rating: I

Transparency/Opacity: O



Every Winsor & Newton Artists' Oil Colour is individually formulated to enhance each pigment's natural characteristics and ensure stability of colour. By exercising maximum quality control throughout all stages of manufacture, selecting the most suitable drying oils and method of pigment dispersion, the unique individual properties of each colour are preserved.

Combined with over 170 years of manufacturing and quality control expertise, the formulation of Artist's Oil Colour ensures the best raw materials are made into the World's Finest Colours.

Artists' Oil Colour uses the highest level of pigmentation consistent with the broadest handling properties. The quantity of pigment used provides covering power and tinting strength.

With over 100 years of experience in crafting the finest artist quality canvases, Claessens is recognised worldwide as a leader in the field. Each Claessens canvas undergoes a rigorous treatment and process to meet different requirements for artists.First, all raw canvases are sized with a synthetic PVA glue. For oil primed canvases, the next step involves applying a primer of zinc white paint bound with linseed oil to the glued linen, by means of two knives. The canvas is then put into a drying room for three days where it air-dries naturally.After this first initial drying time, the canvas is then sanded and a coating layer based on titanium white is applied to the canvas by means of two knives and a roller. The canvas is then placed in the drying room for another ten days.Claessens' Oil Primed Canvases are suitable for oil paint.For a full description of the various processes which go into manufacturing a Claessens canvas, click here

This set contains:

Alizarin Crimson

Light Yellow

Ultramarine Blue

Titanium White

There is no water within the formulation of Artisan. The linseed oil and safflower oil vehicles have been modified to allow the colour to accept water, creating a stable emulsion, while retaining the working characteristics of conventional oil colour.Artisan is ideal for:- Oil painters who are sensitive to, or simply want to avoid exposure to solvents such as white spirit (mineral spirits) or turpentine. Students and teachers in schools and colleges where the use of oil colour is prohibited because of the solvents. Artists working in shared studio space where the build up of solvent levels could lead to a harmful concentration of vapours and a generally an unpleasant odour. Artists who work within a small home environment and wish to reduce the odour of oil painting. For travel, all Artisan products (Colour & Mediums) can be transported on aeroplanes (subject to the agreement of the airline). The range has also been formulated with a high proportion of single pigments for brilliance of colour and clean colour mixing. The most suitable oil and methods for dispersion have been selected to bring out the individual characteristics, from opacity to natural transparency, of each pigment in the Artisan range. Please note: due to trading agreements we are unable to ship this product outside of the UK and EU.

Jackson's Artist Oil Paints are made in the UK by combining high-quality modern pigments and refined linseed oils to create colours that are permanent and lightfast. These colours are carefully considered to provide a full palette and are made to high standards, ensuring they are luminous, vibrant, and full of character. These intense colours can be squeezed from the tube and used as they are, or mixed with mediums to alter consistency and sheen. Jackson's Artist Oils do not contain metallic stearates, industrial fillers or anti-skinning agents. pdf=JacksonsArtistOilColourChart20. pdf Jackson's Artist Oil Colour Chart.

Jackson's Professional Oil Paints are made by skilled artisans, using only the finest grade pigments and the purest refined oils to create colours that are rich and vibrant. The intense colour saturation and purity of this range is achieved by high pigment loading coupled with our traditional production process. We don't use drying modifiers to even out drying times and so you will find some variation across the range reflecting the natural drying characteristics of each pigment. MEK and MEKO are not used in any Jackson's oil paints.

Jackson's Artist Oil Paints are made in the UK by combining high-quality modern pigments and refined linseed oils to create colours that are permanent and lightfast.

These colours are carefully considered to provide a full palette and are made to high standards, ensuring they are luminous, vibrant, and full of character.

These intense colours can be squeezed from the tube and used as they are, or mixed with mediums to alter consistency and sheen. Jackson's Artist Oils do not contain metallic stearates, industrial fillers or anti-skinning agents.

Jackson’s Professional Oil Paints are made by skilled artisans, using only the finest grade pigments and the purest refined oils to create colours that are rich and vibrant.

The intense colour saturation and purity of this range is achieved by high pigment loading coupled with our traditional production process.

We don't use drying modifiers to even out drying times and so you will find some variation across the range reflecting the natural drying characteristics of each pigment. MEK and MEKO are not used in any Jackson’s oil paints.

Diluted with distilled water, PVA size is a contemporary size for fabric support. Conservation scientists recommend painters use neutral pH PVA size on linen and canvas instead of rabbit skin glue. PVA provides a good size layer that seals the fabric but does not re-absorb atmospheric moisture, swell and shrink like rabbit skin glue does. There are hundreds of different formulae of PVA. We acknowledge and appreciate the research of the Canadian Conservation Institute that helps painters and conservators identify the best PVA to use. Gamblin PVA Size is made from PVA that has a neutral pH and does not yellow. It also retains its flexibility and does not emit harmful volatiles.

pdf=Gamblin PVA Glue Data Sheet.pdf Gamblin PVA Glue Size Safety Data Sheet

Torrit Grey is a unique colour to Gamblin Artist Colours. Every spring, the Torit® Air Filtration system which is used by Gamblin to filter the air around the areas where dry pigments are handled is cleared and the excess pigment is collected. Rather than discarding the high quality, expensive pigments, Gamblin paint makers recycle them into a paint shade they have named Gamblin Torrit Grey. The mix of pigments differs from year to year depending on the strength of the pigments and what paints sold well the year before and so Torrit Grey is always unique and no two years are ever the same, therefore the colour can 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 - useful for muting bright tones. It can be mixed with white to produce a pale, neutral grey.This is a 37ml sample of Gamblin Artist Oil Paint in Torrit Grey.