Unlocking the Secrets of Color: Robert Gamblin and Scott Gellatly Answer Your Questions
Savvy Painter Podcast with Antrese Wood
Antrese Wood
4.8 • 891 Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2024
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Have you been experimenting with your paint colors lately? Do you wonder about different colors and the best way to mix them? Well, you’re in luck! Robert Gamblin and product manager Scott Gellatly are here to answer more of your questions in our special color episode!
In this episode of The Savvy Painter podcast, you’ll learn about the pigments used in modern paints, the emotional content of a color, what makes student grade paints “student grade,” the best paints to use for plein air painting, and so much more. You don’t want to miss a minute of this in-depth and fascinating conversation!
2:55 - Why modern oil paints have more pigments than older ones
5:54 - Gamblin’s guide to color imaging and the emotional content of color and its impact on paint-making
9:51 - Are there paints that artists often misuse (aside from whites)?
14:36 - How modern pigments differ from mineral pigments
19:41 - Comparing Gamblin’s color palette to Rembrandt’s and the intention behind Alizarin Crimson Permanent
24:00 - What lake colors and hues are and the hues that Gamblin features
28:44 - How student grade paint differs from artist grade paint
34:20 - The best way to prevent dead spots/sinking in on your paintings
40:12 - Gamblin’s plans for skin tone colors and the concern over representation in the art world for artists of color
45:53 - Mixed colors as shortcuts, common mistakes to avoid in your palette, and when to move away from student grade color
51:54 - The different characteristics of Gamblin’s black oil colors
58:22 - Advice on the minimum amount and best paints to use for plein air painting
1:03:34 - Looking at the relationship between pigments when you’re creating a color palette
1:07:55 - Scott reveals the “secret weapon” colors he likes to use in his paintings
1:10:04 - How Robert produced his beautiful series of large iceberg paintings during his Greenland trip
1:14:27 - How to have a good white for glazing and whether some Torrit Grey colors are made by Gamblin in actual color
1:16:56 - The difference between transparent earth colors and ochres, umbres, and siennas
1:19:15 - Three reasons why cadmium and cobalt colors are so expensive (and three reasons why they’re worth it)
1:22:09 - Why Scott uses Transparent Earth Red (specifically one in the FastMatte line) for his underpaintings
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The History of Color in Painting by Faber Birren
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, it's Antries, and welcome to the Savvy Painter podcast. |
| 0:07.6 | This is a re-release of one of my favorite episodes of the podcast, and a follow-up to the episode which I re-released last week. |
| 0:16.8 | So we've got two episodes in a row that I re-released. |
| 0:20.4 | This is a Q&A with Robert Gamblin, who is the founder of Gamblin Artist Colors and artist Scott Galatley, |
| 0:28.1 | who's the Gamblin product manager. |
| 0:30.1 | As the founder of the company, Robert Gamblin has been obsessed with leading oil painting into the future and most importantly keeping artists safe by carefully selecting the materials that we use every day. |
| 0:41.0 | So both Robert and Scott are also artist, which makes their knowledge |
| 0:45.8 | and their perspective even more intriguing because they walk the walk. So in the |
| 0:51.2 | episode that I re-released last week, we talked extensively about studio safety, varnishes, and mediums. |
| 1:00.0 | This episode, we're going to talk all about pigments and colors. |
| 1:04.7 | If you didn't hear last week's episode, don't worry. |
| 1:07.4 | You don't need to have heard it in order to listen to this one, |
| 1:10.4 | but still highly, highly recommend it. |
| 1:13.0 | In fact, last week, one of the artists in Growth Studio said, |
| 1:17.0 | hey, I re-listened to that Gambling episode |
| 1:20.0 | that you just re-released, and I had listened to it before but I didn't remember how |
| 1:25.0 | jam-packed it is with information and it really really is so both of these |
| 1:29.3 | episodes are a gold mine of information. |
| 1:33.0 | I think I mentioned this the first time I released this, |
| 1:35.0 | but I remember when I was in college |
| 1:39.0 | going to an art store with a roll of quarters |
| 1:42.0 | from my waitressing jobs. |
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