Brand reference
Gamblin
114 Gamblin paints measured in CIE L*a*b*, across oil.
Official site: gamblincolors.com
Paint lines
Gamblin groups its paints into ranges that differ in price, consistency and pigment load.
Artist's Oil Colors
114 paints
Lightfastness
How well the colour resists fading. ASTM I is the most permanent; V is fugitive.
I
107 paints
II
6 paints
III
1 paint
Opacity
How much the paint covers what is underneath.
Opaque
58 paints
Transparent
31 paints
Semi-Transparent
25 paints
Pigments
60 distinct pigment codes across these paints. The most widely used are shown below; 52 more are used less often.
PW6
31 paints
PBr7
13 paints
PW4
10 paints
PR101
8 paints
PB29
8 paints
PY3
6 paints
PB15:3
6 paints
PBk11
6 paints
Colours compared across brands
Each page sets this colour side by side with every brand that makes it, measured in CIE L*a*b*.
- Burnt Sienna
- Burnt Umber
- Cadmium Orange
- Cadmium Red Deep
- Cadmium Red Light
- Cadmium Red Medium
- Cadmium Yellow Deep
- Cadmium Yellow Light
- Cadmium Yellow Medium
- Cerulean Blue
- Cerulean Blue Hue
- Chromium Oxide Green
- Cobalt Blue
- Cobalt Green
- Cobalt Turquoise
- Dioxazine Purple
- Green Gold
- Indian Red
- Indian Yellow
- Indigo
- Ivory Black
- Mars Black
- Naples Yellow
- Olive Green
- Payne's Grey
- Permanent Green Light
- Phthalo Blue
- Phthalo Green
- Prussian Blue
- Quinacridone Magenta
- Quinacridone Red
- Quinacridone Violet
- Raw Sienna
- Raw Umber
- Sap Green
- Titanium White
- Transparent Orange
- Ultramarine Blue
- Ultramarine Violet
- Venetian Red
- Viridian
- Yellow Ochre
- Zinc White
