Gamblin 1980 Cool Violet

Gamblin 1980 Cool VioletGamblin 1980 Oil Colours represent true colour and real value. Artists experience colours that are true, made with the same pigments that go into their Artists range. Gamblins approach of using both traditional raw materials and traditional processes ensures that artists experience the luscious working properties that they expect from their oil colours at truly cost effective prices. Gamblin developed Cool Violet as a way of addressing a big gap in

Gamblin 1980 Oil Colours represent true colour and real value. Artists experience colours that are true, made with the same pigments that go into their Artists’ range. Gamblins’ approach of using both traditional raw materials and traditional processes ensures that artists experience the luscious working properties that they expect from their oil colours at truly cost effective prices.

Gamblin developed Cool Violet as a way of addressing a big gap in color space in the region of blue-violet. When you look at single-pigment violets—Cobalt, Ultramarine, Manganese, and Dioxazine—they’re all relatively close in color space. Manganese is the warmest and most red-leaning of the lot, and also among the weakest in tint strength. If we want a cooler, blue-leaning violet we’ve got Dioxazine which carries the highest of tinting strengths and doesn’t veer far from true, central violet.

For their Cool Violet, Gamblin pushed Dioxazine Purple into blue-violet territory, moderated its overpowering strength, and gave it more opacity with the addition of Ultramarine Blue. They then lightened it and brought out the blue-violet with Titanium White — placing it in color space at Munsell 10PB and filling a huge gap in the violets available to artists.

Pigment: PV23, PB29, PW6
Vehicle: Alkali refined linseed oil
Lightfastness I, Series 2, Opaque
Color Temperature: Cool