Gamblin FastMatte Alkyd Oil Colours
Gamblin FastMatte Alkyd Oil Colours are formulated to give oil painters a fast-drying oil colour with excellent working properties and permanence. The balanced colour palette allow for great colour mixing potential in a variety of oil painting techniques and styles. When used for underpainting, the matte surface allows for maximum adhesion with subsequent layers.
FastMatte Alkyd Oil Colours are formulated toGive painters a fast-drying palette of colours.
Give painters an artist-grade alkyd oil colour with strong pigmentation and balanced colour palette.
Create a matte surface. When used as an under-painting layer, this ensures the adhesion performance of subsequent paint layers.
Dry Time
FastMatte Alkyd Oil Colours will dry within 18 – 24 hours, in thinly painted layers. This drying rate allows painters to work throughout a painting session, while creating a dry surface for the painting session the following day.
Compatibility & Permanence
Alkyd resin is the polymerized oil of the 20th century. Alkyd resin has a great compatibility with the linseed oil binder of traditional oil colours. FastMatte Alkyd Oil Colours are completely compatible with all artists’ grade oil colors. FastMatte Alkyd Oil Colors are also compatible with Gamblin’s alkyd-based, Galkyd painting mediums. Consider using a 50/50 mixture of Galkyd and Gamsol OMS to maintain the drying rate and the matte surface of the FastMatte colours.
Unlike acrylic colours, which we are not comfortable using as underpainting material for oil colours, Gamblin FastMatte colours make an excellent base layer for an oil painting. The matte surface quality of these colors creates a receptive surface for subsequent layers of regular artists’ grade oil colours, ensuring that both physical and chemical bonds are made.
Colour Palette, General Oil Painting Techniques
The balanced colour palette was chosen for its mixing capabilities in a variety of oil painting techniques and styles. The surface quality of dry paintings will be quite matte. For a gloss surface, apply a thin coat of Gamvar Picture Varnish.
FastMatte Alkyd Oil Colours have a low to moderate oil content, so they are appropriate for under-painting when painting “fat over lean.” All colours (with the exception of white) are transparent to semi-transparent in nature, as this quality will create the tonal range important to under-painting techniques.
The fast drying rate of the colours makes them well suited for plein air painters, especially while traveling and transporting freshly painted work.
For illustrators working against deadlines, FastMatte colors offer them a fast-drying solution, and the matte surface makes their work easy to photograph.
| FastMatte Titanium White Gamblin |  | |||
Using FastMatte Titanium White with traditional oil colors will speed the drying of the resulting mixtures, based on the percentage used. | ||||
$16.70 | ||||
| FastMatte Hansa Yellow Medium Gamblin |  | |||
Its masstone is very similar to Cadmium Yellow Medium but semi- transparent. Clean, bright tint. Use in place of Cadmium Yellow where higher key tint is desired. Also Hansa Yellows' transparencies make them useful for mixing cleaner, brighter secondaries. | ||||
$26.15 | ||||
| FastMatte Napthol Scarlet Gamblin |  | |||
Intense warm modern red that replaces Vermillion. Bright, clean oranges can be obtained in mixtures with Hansa Yellow Medium. | ||||
$18.70 | ||||
| FastMatte Transparent Earth Red Gamblin |  | |||
This is a truly transparent version of Venetian Red. FastMatte Transparent Earth Red is excellent for imprimatura underpainting techniques. | ||||
$26.15 | ||||
| FastMatte Quinacridone Red Gamblin |  | |||
Cool lightfast modern red with high key tint. Useful in place of Alizarin Crimson where more intense masstone and mixtures are desired. | ||||
$26.15 | ||||
| FastMatte Ultramarine Blue Gamblin |  | |||
Warm Ultramarine Blue is one of the few mineral colors that are transparent. Lightfast with moderate tinting strength. Makes clean violets when mixed with Quinacridone Red. | ||||
$18.80 | ||||
| FastMatte Phthalo Green Gamblin |  | |||
A dark bluish green more closely resembles Verdigris than Viridian. First manufactured in 1927, Phthalo Green has a very high tinting strength and transparency. Consider mixing with Transparent Earth Red for natural, earth greens and for verdaccio underpainting techniques. | ||||
$18.80 | ||||
| FastMatte Chromatic Black Gamblin |  | |||
A neutral, tinting black made from complementary colors rather than the usual carbon or iron oxide blacks. Consider mixing with FastMatte Titanium White for grisaille underpainting techniques. | ||||
$18.80 | ||||
