Gamblin on Gray

The first video link below shows work at the Gamblin paint factory in/around Portland, Oregon, where some of my family lives and to whom I owe the intelligence in the cited links below.

The Gamblin Artists Paints Company makes serious oil color paints (biggest such company in the US?) and has found a use for waste paint products as “gifts”. Unfortunately the contributor of the video made the tape with very low audio, so you’ll have to crank up the sound and will want to LOWER the audio after watching the video, or put cotton/putty/paint in your ears for a week. :o)

http://videos.oregonlive.com/oregonian/2009/03/gamblin_artist_colors.html

The next link (below) is to the entire text, an article about the Gamblin family. It explains itself. (Really nice article.)

http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/03/gray_green_free_paintmakers_ef.html

Note that the second link (above) includes both the video above as well as the full article about the effort to salvage gray. You remember gray? :o) Gamblin gives away to friends free gray (what they call Torrit Grey – Torrit is the name of the filtration device that keeps the factory air clean ). Apparently there are no guarantees or apologies for the subtle difference in color from tube to tube of the salvaged paint. These grays are different depending on what workers have scraped from the tubs and buckets of the day’s throwaways.

Gamblin’s home website can be found at http://www.gamblincolors.com/. Wait for their short slideshow on the home page before you skip away. Nice samples.