For Artists, By Artists. A glance at the history of Langridge

With so much to know about materials, St Lukettes have to remind ourselves and our lovely customers that the beautiful products we are selling come into existence not far from where they are sold. Langridge Artist Colours began its life in 1992 on Langridge street in Collingwood. David Coles' passion for art materials compelled him to start making his own, and so Langridge was born.

With a commodity of information, a willingness to be transparent and a collection of recipes divined for their permanence and workability, each product Langridge makes comes into being with the utmost care. Fine artist grade materials travel from the four corners of the world to find their way into Langridge's house recipes. These carefully selected ingredients are then packaged into a clear bottle or jar with the synonymous black and white Langridge label.

St Luke is very lucky to be the home of Langridge and we stock the full range of products including hard to find raw materials and limited edition pigments. The following Langridge products are all made locally and available at St Luke:

Professional Oil Colours

Pigmented Inks

Oil Sticks

Paint Binders

Decorative Products

Oil Paint Mediums

Varnishes

Primers

Langridge has grown so much through customer dedication over the past 20 years that manufacturing now exists in a bespoke factory in Yarraville.

The best part about having art material manufacturers a stones throw away is that you can always get an answer to a tricky question, order extremely large quantities and feel assured that you are buying locally made products.

Langridge has been recognised for its hard work and dedication internationally and is now the distributor of the world's leading brand of Acrylics, Golden. The cult brand of handmade paint from New York; Williamsburg is also partnered with Langridge for their Australian distribution. When buying a Langridge product you are purchasing a product that was born from a dedication to helping, listening and enabling Artists to create. When you shop at St Luke, more than likely you are being served by a practising Artist and taking home a product that was made by one.

If you would like to know more, please follow the link to the Langridge website or bring you queries to a St Lukette.

We are always happy to share our knowledge and the history of our companies, because we are a little bit chuffed about it.

www.langridgecolours.com

SCHOOL'S BACK FOR SUMMER (Yay!)

Golden Artist Educators

St Lukette Merryn Trevethan will be running GOLDEN BITES workshops in Yarraville starting 15th February.

Terms are flexible and classes include all materials. Discover what Acrylic paints can really do.

Choose from all aspects od Acrylic Techniques.

Contact: info@merryntrevethan.com 0422515880

The amazing Georgia Mansur is running workshops all over the country this year, with a few choice spots internationally.

To check dates and locations please see her website for more details.

http://www.georgiamansur.com/workshops.html

BACK TO BASICS

Victorian College of the Arts are offering many classes for their Summer School program.

We recommend Technical Painting as part of the Universities Foundation Studio Art Program.

The beginning of the first term will be taught by St Lukette Kez Hughes.

This class promises a back to basics approach to making art, covering the breadth of artistic methods and mediums.

Teachers include Colleen Ahearn, Rob McHaffie, Sharon Goodwin and Ry Haskings among others.

Enrolment is for one year and each Lecturer will specialise in sharing thier own skills.

Call Ieuan Weinman at the VCA (03) 9035 9463 or email art-shortcourses@unimelb.edu.au

Spring Dreaming of Summer

This month we thought we should share some colours with you that reflect this beautiful time of the year.

Daylight savings has just arrived so more time to enjoy the light and start to savour the longer twilights- more time in the studio, gardening and beer gardens!

Most of you will be aware that Langridge (our sister company) has now released their range of Professional Oil Colours. We are extremely excited about this!

This is the only professional oil ever made in Australia and has been 10 years in the making. David Coles, the paint maker has chosen 32 colours for the first range, with another 32 to be released within the next 10 months.

Here’s some of the colours in the new range with our slant on them- of course we have all the technical terms and descriptions of them at St. Luke and we could talk for hours about how pure and beautifully ground they are but you already know that Langridge never does anything by halves and anyway this is more fun!

UNBLEACHED TITANIUM

It’s not a mixed colour it really is unbleached titanium!

Sort of looks like the skin tone stockings you have been wearing all winter.

Just like stockings it’s beautifully soft which makes it delicious to brush out.

TITANATE YELLOW

This is the yellow of nostalgic childhood late afternoons when everything heightens in colour. You know when the grass and shadows go otherworldly?

Great for wild high lights or mix it with some Phthalo Green= Bang!

NAPHTOL RED

I’m pure and sweet, transparent and glowing

I’m St. Luke’s trademark

I’m good looking on ladies lips

I’m the red of a post box

What am I?

ZINC BLUE

David Coles emigrated from London in 1992 and he is still in awe of the Australian sky. This is his homage to the blue summer sky and we thank him very sweetly for doing it so neatly!

CADMIUM GREEN

This is the colour you want to lay down on so you can stare at the Zinc Blue sky above.

And if you feel the need to chomp on a piece of grass at the same time make sure it’s this colour!

COBALT TEAL

Now that you have taken off your winter stockings, had your trip down memory lane, had a taste of Naphthol and gone off to the gardens to experience the sky and grass what better way to end the day with swim in some Cobalt Teal water just like in those travel brochures that you never believe in until you get there!

All Langridge Professional Oil Colour is available in 40 ml, 110 ml, 1 Lt and even 4 Lt if you really want to go nuts!