Cobra is Royal Talens’ line of water-mixable oil colours. Cobra is a professional oil paint with the same high-quality pigments and viscosity you know and love, without having to use harmful solvents. Your workspace can now be free of solvents like turpentine, as the only thing you need to dilute Cobra is water! To complete your arsenal, Cobra also offers paint brushes, a soap to clean your equipment with and various auxiliaries, including painting mediums and varnishes. Together we can claim a solvent-free future. Are you ready to join the revOILution? Cobra. The new generation of oil paint.

The Cobra Artist range offers artists’ quality oil paint  in 100 transparent, semi-transparent, semi-opaque and opaque colours with the highest degree of lightfastness (+++ = at least 100 years under museum conditions).

Product features:

• Oil colour paint that can be mixed and cleaned with water.
• No volatile solvents are necessary (such as white spirit or turpentine).
• Exceptionally high degree of pigmentation.
• Ground multiple times on a triple roller mill during the production process to create an artists’ quality fineness.
• Includes 45 mono-pigmented colours.
• Brushes, work surfaces, clothes and palettes can be cleaned easily (soap and water).
• 100% retention of brush stroke/structure.
• No colour change in transition from from wet to dry as you can sometimes find with acrylic paints.
• All colours have the same degree of gloss.
• Suitable for all oil painting techniques, simple to use (with water or a medium).
• Available in 4 different sets: The Mixing Set (5x20ml tubes), Starter Set (5x40nl tubes), Starter Set (6x20ml tubes) and The Value Pack (10x40ml).

Cobra can be used in conjunction with traditional oils and when mixed at a ratio of Cobra 4:1, the mixture will retain its ability to be thinned and cleaned with water.

Water-mixable oils dry in two stages: the water evaporates and then what is left is similar to conventional oils and dries by oxidation at a similar rate. Just like conventional oils, you still need to remember the fat over lean rule – you still need to let the painting dry completely (often 6 months) before you varnish with regular picture varnish for protection.

View our range of Cobra Study Water Mixable Oil Colours.

Colour Disclaimer. Actual colours may vary since every computer monitor has a different capability to display colours and everyone sees these colours differently. We cannot guarantee that the colour you see accurately portrays the true colour of the product.

Lightfastness rating (LF) = 3,4 – FAIR, MODERATE | 5,6 – GOOD, VERY GOOD | 7,8 – EXCELLENT. V – Vegan-friendly.

Derwent uses the Blue Wool test (ISO 105) to evaluate lightfastness. Lightfastness refers to the chemical stability of a pigment under long exposure to light. A scale of 1-8 is obtained, with values of 6 or higher being considered to be highly lightfast and, under museum conditions, will not fade for 100+ years.