All of the key raw materials that go into making premium quality Langridge products are also available to artists for their own studio practices.
We offer are a wide range of gums, resins, waxes and other ancillary raw materials for the home manufacture of paints, varnishes and other coatings. At Langridge we encourage and support artists who are forging their own way.
Langridge also offers traditional drawing inks and specialty finishes for artists and artisans.
Gums are water-soluble binders and paint modifiers derived from natural sources. Their ready resolubility in water makes paints that can be rewetted for adjustment of the painting.
Damar is a key component in late nineteenth and twentieth century glaze medium recipes. The resin adds a hardness and clarity to the medium different to a simple oil medium.
Waxes are used as a paint vehicle for encaustic and cold wax methods but also as an additive in oil mediums for thickening and matting.
Langridge protein colloid glues are formed through hydrolysis of the collagen from skins.
In addition to being used as adhesives, they are used for sizing canvas and as traditional binder for fine art and decorative arts.
Fillers are used for extending, altering the body or add texture to paints, mediums and grounds.
Chalks can used for the manufacture of traditional and modern primers.
Traditional drawing inks built for their unique qualities of subtlety and variation in tone.
Following original recipes, these are not facsimiles or modern copies of the original inks, but built from the true raw materials and created through fermentation or steeping to produce genuine drawing and sketching inks of historical significance. They can, of course, be used by contemporary artists for modern applications.
Highly pigmented acrylic paint that dries to an super-matte finish with incredible colour vibration as if looking directly at a pure pigmented surface.
Inspired by Yves Klein’s ‘International Klein Blue’.
This powerful colour can be used in limitless ways from standard acrylic painting, wall coating, to application on sculptures.
Langridge’s Antique Metals range are genuine metal coatings for achieving specialty finishes on virtually any surface.
Paint on rust & verdigris finishes simply and easily with our complete system of primer, metal base, oxidiser and sealer.
For interior and exterior application. Water based acrylic-styrene binder gives the paint excellent weather resistance in outdoor application.
