Blend. Soften. Connect.

Discover the magic of water-soluble oil pastels!

Unlike regular oil pastels, these Talens Art Creation Water-Soluble Oil Pastels react with water - allowing you to blend, soften, and create beautiful watercolor effects. Perfect for creating smooth gradients and vibrant washes. Have you ever tried this technique?

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Draw your connection

Sometimes, connection begins with putting your phone down and picking up a pen. Whether you're writing a note to someone you love, sketching a quick idea, or sending a hand-drawn card by post - each mark is a moment of real connection. With the wide range of fineliners from Royal Talens, you can express yourself with creativity. Because every line drawn is a step closer to someone else.

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Paint with purpose

From the launch of our oil paints in 1963 to today’s full range of watercolours, acrylics, and pastels - Van Gogh has grown into a global favourite for artists in over 100 countries. High-quality materials for every technique, thoughtfully designed to help you bring your vision to life. One brand, many tools - because connection through art should always be within reach.

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Start Your Creative Journey

At Royal Talens, we believe every creative journey begins with a single mark - a moment of connection between your vision and the surface. Whether you're just starting out, a seasoned artist, or simply enjoy expressing yourself now and then, our brands are here to support you. Explore our range and find the tools that bring your creativity to life.

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More Paint, More Possibilities

Cobra Painting Paste lets you extend your oil paint without losing colour intensity. As you mix, it becomes more transparent, giving you subtle layering effects and greater flexibility in your work. It also enhances durability, reduces gloss, and speeds up drying time. Whether you're shaping light or building texture, it's about pushing boundaries - on the canvas and beyond.

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Every masterpiece begins with a surface

Prepare your canvas

Every masterpiece begins with a surface that’s ready to receive. Gesso has been used since the time of the old masters to prepare and protect surfaces for painting. It helps paint stick, prevents absorption, and gives your colours a chance to shine. From wood to fabric, MDF to paper - gesso makes almost anything a canvas. Even pre-primed surfaces can benefit from an extra layer: it creates subtle texture, improves grip, and brings out the best in your paint. Because real connection starts with a solid foundation.

The art of preparation

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Express freely with colour

High-quality acrylics for vibrant results - on canvas, wood, stone, and more.

Talens Art Creation is the ideal choice for those looking to explore their artistic side with high-quality materials that are both accessible and practical. This acrylic paint allows you to connect your imagination to the surface, creating vibrant works that reflect your unique vision. It dries quickly, gives a beautiful satin finish, and is perfect for painting on almost any surface - from canvas to wood to stone. Talens Art Creation invites you to bring your creativity to life, one stroke at a time.

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Paint the Future, Cleaner

Experience oil painting without solvents - safer for you, better for the world.

A Ground for the Future Painting is physical - mind meets material, hand meets surface. Cobra makes that contact cleaner and more conscious by removing solvents from the process, making oil painting safer and more accessible for artists everywhere. Connection starts here.

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~Ale Casanavo~

My work has always naturally revolved around the human experience.

When I paint, I’m interested in capturing how we inhabit ourselves, how we relate to others, and how we connect with the world around us. In that sense, connection is a constant - it emerges in shared gestures, but also in quiet, intimate moments.

These paintings show people resting, gazing, breathing. Sometimes in contact with others, sometimes with themselves. Rest, pause, nudity, or simply holding a gaze - all become forms of deep connection. Connecting with oneself is also a way of connecting with the world. And confronting the viewer becomes a way of connecting them with themselves and with others - through the encounter with otherness.

Painting, for me, is a way of being present. Each portrait is an attempt to look with honesty, to get closer to what pulses beneath the surface, and to invite that same confrontation in the viewer. I’m interested in that tension between what is visible and what is sensed.

That’s where humanity appears - and with it, connection. Because when we look at the other, we also look at ourselves. And maybe, in that exchange of gazes, something is recognised, something is embraced, something is healed.

~Zhenya Gershman~

“Just Finished”, oil on canvas, 60 x 48 inches.

“Just Finished”, oil on canvas, 60 x 48 inches

The last thing any of us wants to think about is garbage. But someone cleans it for us everyday, like an invisible house elf in Harry Potter. As I was walking towards my studio, I saw the garbage man so tired from a day’s work, that he perched in the hard, cold cement nook that he had somehow found in the edge of the wall and fell asleep. A large garbage can towered next to him with the plastic glimmering in the daylight. I wanted to paint him to tell his story. He had a wise face, exhausted and aged by life. I couldn’t just walk by him and needed to find a way to both acknowledge and thank him.


~Zhenya Gershman~

Unleash your inner artist

Three ways to start creating, exploring, and expressing — from bold acrylics to playful poster paint to handmade watercolours. Let colour lead the way.

Color Without Limits

Amsterdam All Acrylics - Color Without Limits. Let Amsterdam inspire you to push your creative boundaries and connect with others through the universal language of art. With bold colours and versatile tools, the only limit is your imagination.

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Where Creativity Begins

Art often starts young. In classrooms around the world, children connect with their creativity through colour, gesture, and play. With Bruynzeel Poster Paint, that connection becomes vivid and tangible: bold, washable colours made from 98% natural ingredients.

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Create watercolour by hand

By combining finely ground pigment and Gum Arabic, you can make your own watercolours from scratch. It’s simple in concept, but rich in texture, authenticity, and expression. This raw and grainy character brings a unique, handmade feel to your work.

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