Gamblin Art Sketching Oil Color Chart

Gamblin Art Sketching Oil Color Chart

Not even the most talented apprentices of the Old Masters used professional grade oil paint! Artists' grade oil colors are too expensive for most beginning painters. But Gamblin believes that this does not mean that students should use cheap "economy grade" colors.

Gamblin Sketching Oils are the same practice or "sketching" paints made since the Renaissance. Then, as now, paint makers mixed their artists' grade formulae to which they added a handful of marble dust (calcium carbonate) to double the volume of paint and cut the cost.

Robert Gamblin created the palette of Art Sketching Oil Colors for painters learning new techniques or experimenting with new ideas. Gamblin wants to give students in particular good quality traditional "sketching" paints so that they can learn to control artists' most important tool-- COLOR.

Below are the Gamblin Art Sketching Oil Colors available directly at the Wet Paint Online Store. We offer Gamblin Art Sketching Oils in 37ml & 150ml sizes. Clicking on the desired size will take you to the store page for that color. Color shown here and on the Online Store pages is for reference only.

GAMBLIN ART SKETCHING OIL STORE PAGE / The Gamblin Story

GAMBLIN ART SKETCHING OIL 37ML & 150ML SERIES 3: CADMIUM YELLOW LIGHT

GAMBLIN ART SKETCHING OIL 37ML & 150ML SERIES 3: CADMIUM YELLOW MEDIUM

GAMBLIN ART SKETCHING OIL 37ML & 150ML SERIES 2: HANSA YELLOW LIGHT

GAMBLIN ART SKETCHING OIL 37ML & 150ML SERIES 2: HANSA YELLOW MEDIUM

GAMBLIN ART SKETCHING OIL 37ML & 150ML SERIES 2: ALIZARIN CRIMSON

GAMBLIN ART SKETCHING OIL 37ML & 150ML SERIES 3: CADMIUM ORANGE

GAMBLIN ART SKETCHING OIL 37ML & 150ML SERIES 3: CADMIUM RED LIGHT

GAMBLIN ART SKETCHING OIL 37ML & 150ML SERIES 3: CADMIUM RED MEDIUM

GAMBLIN ART SKETCHING OIL 37ML & 150ML SERIES 2: NAPHTHOL RED

GAMBLIN ART SKETCHING OIL 37ML & 150ML SERIES 2: NAPHTHOL SCARLET

GAMBLIN ART SKETCHING OIL 37ML & 150ML SERIES 2: QUINACRIDONE MAGENTA

GAMBLIN ART SKETCHING OIL 37ML & 150ML SERIES 1: VENETIAN RED

GAMBLIN ART SKETCHING OIL 37ML & 150ML SERIES 2: DIOXAZINE PURPLE

GAMBLIN ART SKETCHING OIL 37ML & 150ML SERIES 2: ULTRAMARINE VIOLET

GAMBLIN ART SKETCHING OIL 37ML & 150ML SERIES 2: CERULEAN BLUE HUE

GAMBLIN ART SKETCHING OIL 37ML & 150ML SERIES 3: COBALT BLUE

GAMBLIN ART SKETCHING OIL 37ML & 150ML SERIES 2: PHTHALO BLUE

GAMBLIN ART SKETCHING OIL 37ML & 150ML SERIES 2: ULTRAMARINE BLUE

GAMBLIN ART SKETCHING OIL 37ML & 150ML SERIES 3: CADMIUM GREEN

GAMBLIN ART SKETCHING OIL 37ML & 150ML SERIES 2: PHTHALO GREEN

GAMBLIN ART SKETCHING OIL 37ML & 150ML SERIES 2: SAP GREEN

GAMBLIN ART SKETCHING OIL 37ML & 150ML SERIES 2: VIRIDIAN

GAMBLIN ART SKETCHING OIL 37ML & 150ML SERIES 1: BURNT SIENNA

GAMBLIN ART SKETCHING OIL 37ML & 150ML SERIES 1: BURNT UMBER

GAMBLIN ART SKETCHING OIL 37ML & 150ML SERIES 1: RAW SIENNA

GAMBLIN ART SKETCHING OIL 37ML & 150ML SERIES 1: RAW UMBER

GAMBLIN ART SKETCHING OIL 37ML & 150ML SERIES 1: YELLOW OCHRE

GAMBLIN ART SKETCHING OIL 37ML & 150ML SERIES 1: IVORY BLACK

GAMBLIN ART SKETCHING OIL 37ML & 150ML SERIES 1: MARS BLACK

GAMBLIN ART SKETCHING OIL 37ML & 150ML SERIES 1: TITANIUM WHITE

Fact Sheet on Gamblin Sketching Oils

The Story of Gamblin

The story of Gamblin Artists Colors Company is well known. Painter Robert Gamblin was so committed to the quality of oil paint he was using in his own paintings that he started making his own paint in his garage. This was not a casual undertaking. Robert devoted the entire first year solely to perfecting the formulas for white paint! His efforts were particularly focused on removing the most toxic elements from the oil painter’s studio.

Gamblin was the first to develop a replacement for lead white paint, and his Gamsol solvent sets the industry standard for permissible exposure level. Over 25 years after his first forays into color making, Robert Gamblin’s oil paint & mediums are some of the best known, and best selling, ranges at Wet Paint.

Lesser known, perhaps, are Gamblin’s contributions to artists’ education. The Gamblin color chart is divided into mineral & organic colors; a separation that clearly divides the warmer, opaque colors from the predominantly cooler, transparent ones. This deceptively simple format allows the artist to make informed color choices based on their needs. A review of the Gamblin color system has prompted more than one Wet Paint employee to remark that they had just learned more about color in ten minutes than in four years of art school!

Since so much has been written about Gamblin (the man & the company) over the years, Pete Cole, President of Gamblin Artists Colors Co, wanted to share a few anecdotes that you may not have heard: “Gamblin’s commitment to studio safety & environmental sustainability takes many forms,” says Mr. Cole. “Last year, Gamblin gave away over 15,000 tubes of Torrit Grey, our unique oil color made from the artists’ pigment reclaimed from our filtration system. Also, our employees log over 25, 000 miles annually on bicycle or public transportation, rather than driving to work.”

Out of Robert’s passion for painting & paint making has grown a responsible, progressive company that honors the past while continually breaking new ground.

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