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Our exclusive starter kit includes everything you need to begin exploring the exciting creative potential of cold wax medium, including: Gamblin Cold Wax Medium and oil paints, R&F Pigment Sticks, PanPastels, Ampersand Gessobords, Arches Oil Paper, Multimedia Artboard, our exclusive SP CREATE brayer and squeegee, and more.
We have carefully selected the products included in this kit to give you everything you need for your first steps.
I wanted to tell you how happy I am with the new Starter Kit. There are several materials I have never used before, and I have really enjoyed exploring. Thanks for the idea of this starter kit- really well thought out and presented.
– Sarah Black
Gamblin Cold Wax Medium
10 essential colors of Gamblin 1980 Oil Paints
Our own SP CREATE tools: 4″ brayer and 6″ squeegee
Our favorite Liquitex palette knife
Our Signature PanPastel Kit of 7 colors
3 colors of R&F Pigment Sticks
12 sheets Arches Oil Paper
10 sheets Multimedia Artboard
3 Ampersand Gessobords
50 sheets palette paper
Instruction sheet for getting started
PLEASE NOTE: Currently this item is only available for US shipping in the continental 48 states. For Alaska and Hawaii, please email us to arrange shipping (extra charge). No international orders. Also, because our starter kits are custom created, please allow 5-7 business days for shipping.
Gamblin Cold Wax Medium is a mixture of natural beeswax, Gamsol odorless mineral spirit, and a small amount of alkyd resin. The term “cold” in Cold Wax Medium and Cold Wax Painting refers to the fact that heat is not required for working with this wax medium – as it dries by solvent evaporation (Gamsol), rather than the cooling of the wax, as in encaustic painting. The Gamsol evaporates out of the medium and polymerizes with the fatty acids in oil paints to form a durable, matte surface.
10 high quality Gamblin 1980 Oil Paints. Light, dark, warm, cool, earth, transparent, and opaque colors:
Titanium White, Ivory Black, Hansa Yellow Medium, Ultramarine Blue, Alizarin Crimson, Sap Green, Cadmium Red Medium, Cadmium Orange, Burnt Sienna, and Transparent Yellow Oxide
Our PanPastel Signature Kit of 7 colors (with applicator tools) in its own convenient case:
Orange, Turquoise, Red Oxide, Bright Yellow, Green Extra Dark, Raw Umber, Magenta Shade, and Black
3 R&F Sticks in exciting colors:
Kings Blue (opaque with beautiful contrast to warm colors)
Alizarin Orange (transparent, great for glazing)
Turkey Umber Green (transparent, for powerful marks and mixing)
3 versatile surfaces ready to paint on. Enough for 25 paintings. No gesso or prep needed:
3 Amersand Gessobords, 9×12 inches
10 sheets Multimedia Artboard, 12×12 inches
12 sheets Arches Oil Paper, 9×12 inches
Our exclusive SP CREATE 4” brayer and 6” squeegee. The ‘workhorses’ of our every day cold wax painting.
Our custom-made brayers are not available anywhere else and are a result of testing over a dozen models.
The 6″ Squeegee is good for basic techniques on a variety of different paintings.
This is the knife we use. The flat tip and sides allow for a good paint load, fast mixing, and controlled scraping without gouging. The blade and shank are one solid piece. Unlike the cheaper, welded ones, we’ve never had one break.
50 Sheets to get you started. You may want to switch to a glass or acrylic palette as you move forward.
We have carefully selected the products included in this kit to give you everything you need for your first steps. We hope these products will become favorites that you continue to use in years to come. They are what we use in our own studios and workshops, and we recommend them highly for their quality and usefulness.
Certain products in this kit can expose you to chemicals, including cadmium, which are known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm. For more information go to www.P65Warnings.ca.gov
And we’ll send you a special 10% off your first order!
*new customers only – does not apply to memberships*
Everything for a successful Cold Wax Medium artist.
Cold Wax Academy was started to help artists discover and explore the incredible qualities cold wax has to offer.
Rebecca Crowell is an American abstract artist known for rich, complex surfaces created with cold wax medium and oil paint. Her work is included in hundreds of art collections–private, public, and corporate–and she exhibits regularly in fine art galleries across the country.
Jerry McLaughlin is an abstract artist best known for his minimalist, textured, geometric paintings. His work considers the interplay between beauty and darkness while simultaneously exploring the materiality of cold wax medium. He initially trained as a Pediatric Critical Care physician, an influence still palpable. He lives and paints in Mexico.
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