Oil paint colour chart

What can Gamblin Artist's Oil mix?

All 94 colours in the Gamblin Artist's Oil range: masstone swatch, Colour Index pigment codes where the name states them unambiguously (36 of 94), and the tinting-strength flags that matter at the palette. Swatches are approximate. They come from the manufacturer’s published chart, not yet from measured drawdowns, and the method page explains what that means.

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The full 94-colour chart

ColourNamePigmentTinting strength
Alizarin Crimson PR83 strong tinter
Alizarin Crimson Permanent strong tinter
Asphaltum average
Black Spinel 1.3×
Brown Pink average
Burnt Sienna PBr7 0.9×
Burnt Umber PBr7 0.9×
Cadmium Chartreuse average
Cadmium Green average
Cadmium Lemon PY35 average
Cadmium Orange PO20 average
Cadmium Orange Deep PO20 average
Cadmium Red Deep PR108 average
Cadmium Red Light PR108 average
Cadmium Red Medium PR108 average
Cadmium Yellow Deep PY35 average
Cadmium Yellow Light PY35 average
Cadmium Yellow Medium PY35 average
Cerulean Blue PB35 0.9×
Cerulean Blue Hue 0.9×
Chromatic Black 1.3×
Chromium Oxide Green PG17 average
Cobalt Blue PB28 0.9×
Cobalt Green 0.9×
Cobalt Teal 0.9×
Cobalt Violet 0.9×
Cool White average
Dioxazine Purple PV23 strong tinter
Emerald Green average
Fast Dry Titanium White PW6 average
Flake White Replacement average
Gold Ochre 0.9×
Green Gold average
Hansa Yellow Deep average
Hansa Yellow Light average
Hansa Yellow Medium average
Indanthrone Blue PB60 average
India Red average
India Yellow average
Ivory Black PBk9 1.3×
Manganese Blue Hue average
Manganese Violet PV16 average
Mars Black PBk11 1.3×
Naples Orange 0.9×
Naples Yellow 0.9×
Napthol Red average
Napthol Scarlet average
Nickel Titanate Yellow average
Olive Green average
Payne 8217 S Grey average
Permanent Green Light average
Permanent Orange average
Perylene Red average
Phthalo Blue PB15 strong tinter
Phthalo Emerald strong tinter
Phthalo Green PG7 strong tinter
Phthalo Turquoise strong tinter
Portland Cool Grey average
Portland Grey Deep average
Portland Grey Light average
Portland Grey Medium average
Portland Warm Grey average
Prussian Blue PB27 strong tinter
Quinacridone Magenta PR122 strong tinter
Quinacridone Red strong tinter
Quinacridone Violet PV19 strong tinter
Radiant Blue average
Radiant Green average
Radiant Lemon average
Radiant Magenta strong tinter
Radiant Red average
Radiant Turquoise average
Radiant Violet average
Radiant White average
Radiant Yellow average
Raw Sienna PBr7 0.9×
Raw Umber PBr7 0.9×
Sap Green average
Terre Verte average
Titanium Buff PW6:1 average
Titanium White PW6 average
Titanium Zinc White PW4 0.55×
Transparent Earth Orange average
Transparent Earth Red average
Transparent Earth Yellow average
Transparent Orange average
Ultramarine Blue PB29 1.1×
Ultramarine Violet PB29 1.1×
Van Dyke Brown average
Venetian Red average
Viridian PG18 0.9×
Warm White average
Yellow Ochre PY43 0.9×
Zinc White PW4 0.55×

12 of the 94 colours are strong tinters (at least 1.5× average tinting strength). They go into a mix last, a speck at a time; here is why the order matters. Tinting strengths are the app’s own estimates from pigment composition, not measured values.

The Zorn palette in Gamblin Artist's Oil tubes

The classic four-tube exercise (ochre, red, black, white) with this line’s own colours:  Titanium White,  Yellow Ochre,  Cadmium Red Light,  Ivory Black. The wheel shows the range those four can mix at mid value, computed with Kubelka–Munk pigment physics. The dimmed region is out of reach at any ratio.

At this value the four reach 4.4% of the fully saturated wheel: a small country with good flesh notes. Gamuts differ between brands because the tubes do. The same figure at three values, with the full discussion, is on the Zorn palette page and in the article.

The Zorn quartet in Gamblin Artist's Oil at 55% lightness. In-reach colours at full strength, out-of-reach dimmed.

Also from Gamblin

Gamblin 1980 Oil (48 colours) · Gamblin FastMatte Alkyd Oil (24 colours). Same maker, different pigment loads and price points, and so a different mixable range. Load both in the app and compare the wheels.

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See what your Gamblin Artist's Oil tubes can reach

Pick the tubes you own from the range and the wheel draws their mixable gamut, with knife-part recipes for anything inside it and the ΔE for anything that isn’t.

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