Oil Painting Q&A: Tips, Tricks, and More with Gamblin Artists Colors
Savvy Painter Podcast with Antrese Wood
Antrese Wood
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🗓️ 24 October 2024
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
You’ve heard that old phrase, “Jack of all trades and master of none,” right? Instead of being a jack of all trades, Robert Gamblin and his team at Gamblin Artists Colors have decided to focus on being a master of one: oil paint products. Their narrow focus has paid off as they display an amazing passion for detail and improvement in their product line and offer jam-packed information you can use in your studio every day.
In this episode of The Savvy Painter podcast, you’ll learn helpful insights and get some of your biggest questions about oil painting and other topics answered by Robert, product specialist Mary Weisenburger, and company president Pete Cole. You’ll hear their response to questions about pigments, oil separation, toxicity, and much more!
2:25 - Robert introduces himself and shares how he started Gamblin Artists Colors
6:05 - Robert reveals why Gamblin only provides oil paint and shares some interesting pigment formulations
15:59 - How dreams have inspired color combinations and examples of custom colors made for well-known artists
23:08 - The value of white in the painting process (and the difference between radiant and titanium white)
29:09 - The story of how flake white replacement came into existence
33:21 - Advice and recommendations for artists who are using oils for the first time
39:41 - Warm and cool-colored objects and clearing confusion around kit vs. ready-made Gamvar
45:56 - Why the oil separates from the pigment inside tubes (and what to do if you want an oilier viscosity to the paint)
49:11 - Why Gamblin doesn’t plan to introduce water-soluble oil paints and one of the biggest misconceptions about oil paintings
54:46 - The three eras of pigment history and two big drivers of misinformation about pigment toxicity
1:03:20 - Tips for artists who work in small, enclosed spaces or with a baby nearby
1:10:33 - What you can do instead of a retouch varnish and why varnish at all in the first place
1:16:18 - The trouble with finding good cadmium color alternatives that are opaque
1:19:12 - Working with cold wax mediums and what you should look out for when using them
1:22:12 - A rundown on the range of solvent-free mediums available at Gamblin Artists Colors
1:26:33 - The shelf life of oil paint in tubes and whether Gamblin is considering changing the size of their caps
1:31:28 - What FastMatte is, what inspired it, and three helpful ways to use it
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Antrice, and welcome to the Sabby Painter Podcast. |
| 0:06.8 | This episode is sponsored by Gamblin Artist Colors, and we've teamed up to create a very special episode for you. I collected questions from you and |
| 0:15.8 | Gamblin is here to answer them. |
| 0:17.8 | Hi I'm Robert Gamblin. I'm the founder of Gamblin Artist Colors. I founded the company in 1980. We now have a wonderful |
| 0:26.4 | facility that gives excellent work to 25 people and we make only materials based on oil for oil painting and printmaking. |
| 0:36.0 | Robert answers questions about pigments, how Gamblin developed their line, |
| 0:40.0 | artists they've worked with to create colors and he shares the strangest |
| 0:44.4 | stories for pigment sources. Also I'm sure you've seen the new blue pigment |
| 0:50.0 | discovered up in Oregon. That story has been a hot topic on social media for some time. |
| 0:55.2 | Well, Robert was able to play with some samples of it and he shares his assessment. |
| 1:00.3 | Well, hello, my name is Mary and I'm a product specialist at Gambling. I also get a quick |
| 1:07.2 | question in with Mary. She answers Edgar Soburon's question about why some paints |
| 1:12.3 | have more oil separation in the tubes. And then next up is |
| 1:16.5 | Pete Cole. Hi I'm Pete Cole, I'm the president of Gamblin artist colors. |
| 1:20.9 | Pete answers questions about toxicity. He dispels some of the and Christina Rotelli's question about cap sizes. |
| 1:33.7 | After listening to this episode you might want some of the resources that Robert Mary and |
| 1:38.1 | Pete mentioned. |
| 1:39.6 | About once a month, Gambling sends out helpful tips for oil painters and printmakers, and they've put together |
| 1:45.4 | a special PDF download for savvy painter listeners who sign up for their email list. |
| 1:50.4 | Go to gamblingcolors.com forward slash Savvy Painter to get their monthly tips and the free download that shows you step by step how to varnish your paintings. |
| 2:01.0 | The folks over at Gambling answered questions from 25 different artists. |
| 2:05.8 | This is an episode jam-packed with information you can use every day in your studio. |
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