Langridge Artist Colours

Langridge Artist Colours Melbourne based, independent manufacturer of Professional-grade Oil Colours, Fluid Acrylics, mediums & artists' pigments.

Titanium Grey: This is a single pigment not a blend (Titanium Dioxide, PW6.1). A mid grey with slight warm yellow-brown ...
17/05/2026

Titanium Grey: This is a single pigment not a blend (Titanium Dioxide, PW6.1). A mid grey with slight warm yellow-brown colour space. This is not a neutral grey. Very opaque as you’d expect from titanium pigment, but not a ‘dead’ colour. Fantastic for subtle tinting of other colours. Excellent mixed with Raw Umber for grisaille painting.

Ultramarine Violet: Delicate, cool violet with subtle mixing power. A semi-opaque pigment, it doesn’t dominate, but push...
04/05/2026

Ultramarine Violet: Delicate, cool violet with subtle mixing power. A semi-opaque pigment, it doesn’t dominate, but pushes gently into mixes to create exquisite tints. Pulls the ‘heat’ out of colour blends of reds and oranges.

Cadmium Yellow Deep: Luscious, rich buttery yellow, veering towards the red side without becoming orange. One of our new...
21/04/2026

Cadmium Yellow Deep: Luscious, rich buttery yellow, veering towards the red side without becoming orange. One of our new genuine cadmium colours in our Fluid Acrylic range. As you’d expect from this pigment, the colour brushes out opaque without looking flat. A colour full of light that makes it sing!

Light Phthalo Green: Is it minty? Yes. Is it floral? Yes. Is it a ‘plastic’ colour? Yes. Super-strange opaque pale green...
19/04/2026

Light Phthalo Green: Is it minty? Yes. Is it floral? Yes. Is it a ‘plastic’ colour? Yes.
Super-strange opaque pale green of 60’s formica, its sugary-sweet colour space also sits on the edge of colours seen at dawn’s breaking light. This is not a dusty colour!
Another newly released colour in our Fluid Acrylics range.Available now from selected Langridge stockists. 🇦🇺

Perylene Crimson: Deep, rich crimson with an unusual dirty base tone, as if a shady brown had slipped in and taken the p...
14/04/2026

Perylene Crimson: Deep, rich crimson with an unusual dirty base tone, as if a shady brown had slipped in and taken the place of the usual blue base. Distinctly different to the clean crimsons made with quinacridone, this colour can mutate brilliantly in landscape and portrait applications.

Cadmium Rose: A light yellow-pink, it could also be described as the colour of ripe peach or soft coral. Titanium White ...
12/04/2026

Cadmium Rose: A light yellow-pink, it could also be described as the colour of ripe peach or soft coral. Titanium White in the formulation gives extra opacity but this is not a dusty colour. Instead it’s bright and juicy, full of absorbed Australian sunshine. Another of our new additions to the Langridge fluid acrylics range.

09/04/2026

Prussian Blue: Deep as night, this colour holds a glassy, metallic and slight bitterness within its dark embrace. Ever since its introduction in the early 18th Century, it has seduced artists with its mysterious depth. This is a modern reproduction of the original colour (Prussian blue pigment suffers poorly in acrylics) built with modern, stable, lightfast pigments. Spotlight on the first of 35 added colours to our Professional Fluid Acrylic range. 🇦🇺

14/01/2026

Introduced in the 18th Century, Prepared Iron Oxides (also known as Mars colours) are made by the oxidisation, hydrolysis and heating of iron salts, compounds formed when iron combines with an acid, such as hydrochloric acid (aqua regia). Although prepared iron oxides and natural ochres have the same basic chemistry, the chemical purity of prepared iron oxides means greater colour strength compared to their ochre counterparts. Photograph courtesy of Adrian Lander.

Woad. The leaves of the plant gave ancient European civilisations a blue dye, long before the introduction of indigo fro...
12/01/2026

Woad. The leaves of the plant gave ancient European civilisations a blue dye, long before the introduction of indigo from India. The woad leaves after harvesting were rolled into balls and dried for ease of storage and travelling. Both the dye components and the process of fermentation to release the dye are very similar, even the way that the colour develops on contact with oxygen make these two plants important in the history of pigments and dyes. Indigo is demonstrably stronger as a dye and its commercial introduction into Europe at the end of the 15th Century spelled the end of woad’s centuries-long dominance. Still grown in small quantities in England and France, the blue colour it produces is often called ‘pastel’.

Do you know what this is and why it’s so important for paint making? This is a drawdown of our oil paint (in this case i...
09/01/2026

Do you know what this is and why it’s so important for paint making? This is a drawdown of our oil paint (in this case it’s Naphthol Red) with a tint made from 1 part paint to 4 parts ‘control’ white (Langridge Titanium White). A micron thin film is squeezed down the two-tone card to measure chroma, gloss level, tint strength and consistency of colour in mass tone, tint colour and under tone. To get passed as a paint worthy of using, all Langridge paints go through this and other tests before being approved for tubing and shipping. 🇦🇺

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Factory 23, 155 Hyde Street
Melbourne, VIC
3013

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Tuesday 8:30am - 5:30pm
Wednesday 8:30am - 5:30pm
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