
Cobra Water-Soluble Oil Paint
Solvent-free oil paints available in 70 colours across two ranges: Artist and Study. The collection also includes brushes, cleaning soap, and various mediums and varnishes.
Cobra Artist Oil Colours
Artist-quality, water-mixable oil paints with exceptionally high pigmentation. Made using premium pigments and oils, ground to fine consistency on a triple roller mill. The range offers 70 colours—from transparent to opaque—with top lightfastness (+++), guaranteed to remain unchanged for at least 100 years under museum conditions. Includes 32 single-pigment colours, featuring exclusive pigments like cadmiums, cobalt, chromium oxides, and transparent oxide reds and yellows.
Cobra Auxiliaries
Cobra offers a full range of solvent-free auxiliaries—mediums and varnishes—specially developed for water-mixable oil painting. These products let you enhance your painting’s finish, working time, and longevity, all while keeping your practice safer and cleaner.
Painting Medium 091
A colourless medium that increases gloss and transparency while softening brushstrokes. Ideal for layered painting techniques.
- Based on vegetable oils and synthetic resin
- Water-mixable
- Slight yellowing
- Does not affect drying time
Water-Mixable Linseed Oil
Makes paint fatter, increases gloss and transparency. Best for underpainting due to faster drying.
- Increases durability
- Slight yellowing
- Slows drying
Medium Mix
Convert traditional oil paints into water-mixable paint—no solvents needed.
- Enables solvent-free cleanup
- Adds gloss, transparency
- Slight yellowing
Water-Mixable Safflower Oil
Slower drying and non-yellowing—ideal for final layers.
- Best for top layers
- Increases flow, transparency, gloss
- Water-mixable
Glazing Medium 092
For smooth, transparent layers without visible brushstrokes—perfect for glazing.
- High gloss and transparency
- Should be used only in final layers
- Water-mixable
Quick Drying Medium 093
Accelerates drying time while adding flow, gloss, and transparency.
- Based on vegetable oils and siccatives
- Slight yellowing
- Water-mixable
Painting Paste 087
Pigment-free, thick medium for impasto or extending expensive colours.
- Maintains gloss
- Prevents wrinkling in thick layers
- Reduces colour intensity when mixed
- Water-mixable
Varnish Gloss 102 Spray Can
- High-gloss finish
- Synthetic resin and odourless white spirit
- Non-yellowing, non-cracking
- Removable
Varnish Matt 103 Spray Can
- Matte finish
- Includes matting agents (silicas)
- Durable and even protection
- Removable
Varnish Satin 118 Spray Can
- Satin sheen
- Balanced protection and finish
- Non-yellowing, removable