Art supplies including paint, brushes, and palettes on a white surface
Art supplies including paint, brushes, and palettes on a white surface

Expressing yourself

This month is all about expressing yourself through art. Art isn’t just colour on canvas, its emotion, energy, and a way to share your story. Whether bold or delicate, spontaneous or planned, it’s not about perfection but about honesty and trusting your tools.

Explore colours, techniques, and ideas to help you express yourself in your own unique way.

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Purple shades to inspire you

The August palette focuses on expressive purples, great for showing your feelings and thoughts on canvas. Violets come in many shades, with red or blue tones, and many are made with just one pigment for bright colour. Most violets are transparent or partly see-through, which makes layering easy. When you mix them with white, you get soft pink and lilac colours. You can also try mixing violet with yellow for some surprising new colours.

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The power of violet


When it comes to expressive colour, Cobra’s violet shades stand out. These oil colours are crafted with high-performing pigments that hold their brilliance in every layer.

Each colour offers a unique character. We have the following violet shades in our Cobra range:

Permanent Red Violet Light 577
Violet 536
Permanent Violet Medium 537
Blue Violet 548
Permanent Red Violet 567
Ultramarine Violet 507
Permanent Blue Violet 568

With both blue and red undertones to explore mood, contrast, and shadow.

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Materials to express yourself

Discover the essentials to create
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The perfect foundation for your art


A quality canvas is the perfect foundation for your creativity. Our canvases are carefully stretched on sturdy, FSC®-certified wooden frames to keep them strong and stable, so they won’t warp or bend. Available in a range of sizes and thicknesses, they’re ready to support your oil or acrylic paintings.

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Tools to support your art


As an artist, you need more than just great paint. Royal Talens offers essential tools like brushes, painting knives, and colour shapers to support your creative process. Our brushes are crafted with care using a wide range of high-quality hairs, while our unique palette knives are made from a single piece for extra strength and durability.

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Support your art with the right auxiliaries


Royal Talens offers a range of auxiliaries such as mediums and varnishes that are essential for enhancing your painting experience. They help improve paint texture and drying time while protecting your artwork for years to come. Using the right auxiliaries allows you to achieve different effects and gives you more control.

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