The colours are chosen according to mass tone (colour from tube), undertone (bias of colour when in a thin film), colour strength, relative opacity and the character of the pigment in water colour, ie. granulating, staining or even wash. The resultant colour spectrum ensures the largest number of colours can be mixed from the range. The optimum brilliance of every colour in the Artists' Water Colour range is unparalleled by any other water colour. Remarkably, this brilliance is combined with high permanence.

Pigment: Quinacridone redLightfastness: ****Opacity: Semi-opaqueDescription: Originally obtained from real Cochenille-louses. Modern pigment allows today lightfast alternative.

Colour Index: PV19

To achieve the outstanding characteristics, like reusable paint when dried on a palette and the high control of paint flow even on soft water-colour papers Schmincke only use the best raw materials. In its colouristic appearance the total assortment is particularly harmonious, balanced and complete.

One main ingredient of the water-colour binding medium is Kordofan Gum Arabic from the southern Sahara region. Like most natural products this traditional water-colour binding medium differs from year to year. Therefore Schmincke is testing Gum Arabic every time before purchase and selects only the best crop of the respective year. This adds small but significant quality advantages. Other formula ingredients are selected equally carefully and of course are integrated in each formula in an individual optimised way to obtain a harmonious assortment, that can be easily picked up by the brush.

Another traditional quality criterion is the re-usability of the Horadam Aquarell water-colours while using the same formulation for tubes and pans. Both properties, the reusability and the control of the paint flow can only be achieved by pouring water-colours into pans in a liquid state, which is really unique.

Cobalt Blue Violet (PV19 PB28) is a bright purple with blue undertones. This product is an essential for floral paintings and can also be used to great effect when painting twilight shadows.

ASTM Lightfastness Rating: Excellent - Not yet rated by ASTM - Rating based on Daniel Smith's independent testing.Transparency: Semi-transparentGranulating: YesStaining: Low

Michael Harding Professional Watercolours have been meticulously developed to create highly saturated and vivid colours. Each pigment was painstakingly researched and formulated to perform to its maximum potential. Bound with fine quality gum arabic and honey, the range features 130+ colours, 92 of which are single pigment colours ensuring clean colour mixing and strong contrast.

The spectrum offered is comprehensive, with a broad choice of historical and modern clarity colours. A wide selection of greens are included for plein air, and traditional cadmium colours for their robustness. Rarer colours such as Lapis Lazuli and Rose Madder have been carefully transposed from the celebrated Michael Harding oil paint range.

Michael Harding Professional Watercolours have excellent rewetting properties, so dried paint can easily be reused, and favourite mixes can be created and stored in empty pans.

Twenty years in the making, these artist watercolours offer a rich and vibrant luminosity with the aim that every colour offers a distinct character to justify its inclusion in this exciting new collection.

Michael Harding Professional Watercolours have been meticulously developed to create highly saturated and vivid colours. Each pigment was painstakingly researched and formulated to perform to its maximum potential. Bound with fine quality gum arabic and honey, the range features 130+ colours, 92 of which are single pigment colours ensuring clean colour mixing and strong contrast.

The spectrum offered is comprehensive, with a broad choice of historical and modern clarity colours. A wide selection of greens are included for plein air, and traditional cadmium colours for their robustness. Rarer colours such as Lapis Lazuli and Rose Madder have been carefully transposed from the celebrated Michael Harding oil paint range.

Michael Harding Professional Watercolours have excellent rewetting properties, so dried paint can easily be reused, and favourite mixes can be created and stored in empty pans.

Twenty years in the making, these artist watercolours offer a rich and vibrant luminosity with the aim that every colour offers a distinct character to justify its inclusion in this exciting new collection.

Michael Harding Professional Watercolours have been meticulously developed to create highly saturated and vivid colours. Each pigment was painstakingly researched and formulated to perform to its maximum potential. Bound with fine quality gum arabic and honey, the range features 130+ colours, 92 of which are single pigment colours ensuring clean colour mixing and strong contrast.

The spectrum offered is comprehensive, with a broad choice of historical and modern clarity colours. A wide selection of greens are included for plein air, and traditional cadmium colours for their robustness. Rarer colours such as Lapis Lazuli and Rose Madder have been carefully transposed from the celebrated Michael Harding oil paint range.

Michael Harding Professional Watercolours have excellent rewetting properties, so dried paint can easily be reused, and favourite mixes can be created and stored in empty pans.

Twenty years in the making, these artist watercolours offer a rich and vibrant luminosity with the aim that every colour offers a distinct character to justify its inclusion in this exciting new collection.

Michael Harding Professional Watercolours have been meticulously developed to create highly saturated and vivid colours. Each pigment was painstakingly researched and formulated to perform to its maximum potential. Bound with fine quality gum arabic and honey, the range features 130+ colours, 92 of which are single pigment colours ensuring clean colour mixing and strong contrast.

The spectrum offered is comprehensive, with a broad choice of historical and modern clarity colours. A wide selection of greens are included for plein air, and traditional cadmium colours for their robustness. Rarer colours such as Lapis Lazuli and Rose Madder have been carefully transposed from the celebrated Michael Harding oil paint range.

Michael Harding Professional Watercolours have excellent rewetting properties, so dried paint can easily be reused, and favourite mixes can be created and stored in empty pans.

Twenty years in the making, these artist watercolours offer a rich and vibrant luminosity with the aim that every colour offers a distinct character to justify its inclusion in this exciting new collection.

Michael Harding Professional Watercolours have been meticulously developed to create highly saturated and vivid colours. Each pigment was painstakingly researched and formulated to perform to its maximum potential. Bound with fine quality gum arabic and honey, the range features 130+ colours, 92 of which are single pigment colours ensuring clean colour mixing and strong contrast.

The spectrum offered is comprehensive, with a broad choice of historical and modern clarity colours. A wide selection of greens are included for plein air, and traditional cadmium colours for their robustness. Rarer colours such as Lapis Lazuli and Rose Madder have been carefully transposed from the celebrated Michael Harding oil paint range.

Michael Harding Professional Watercolours have excellent rewetting properties, so dried paint can easily be reused, and favourite mixes can be created and stored in empty pans.

Twenty years in the making, these artist watercolours offer a rich and vibrant luminosity with the aim that every colour offers a distinct character to justify its inclusion in this exciting new collection.

Michael Harding Professional Watercolours have been meticulously developed to create highly saturated and vivid colours. Each pigment was painstakingly researched and formulated to perform to its maximum potential. Bound with fine quality gum arabic and honey, the range features 130+ colours, 92 of which are single pigment colours ensuring clean colour mixing and strong contrast.

The spectrum offered is comprehensive, with a broad choice of historical and modern clarity colours. A wide selection of greens are included for plein air, and traditional cadmium colours for their robustness. Rarer colours such as Lapis Lazuli and Rose Madder have been carefully transposed from the celebrated Michael Harding oil paint range.

Michael Harding Professional Watercolours have excellent rewetting properties, so dried paint can easily be reused, and favourite mixes can be created and stored in empty pans.

Twenty years in the making, these artist watercolours offer a rich and vibrant luminosity with the aim that every colour offers a distinct character to justify its inclusion in this exciting new collection.

Michael Harding Professional Watercolours have been meticulously developed to create highly saturated and vivid colours. Each pigment was painstakingly researched and formulated to perform to its maximum potential. Bound with fine quality gum arabic and honey, the range features 130+ colours, 92 of which are single pigment colours ensuring clean colour mixing and strong contrast.

The spectrum offered is comprehensive, with a broad choice of historical and modern clarity colours. A wide selection of greens are included for plein air, and traditional cadmium colours for their robustness. Rarer colours such as Lapis Lazuli and Rose Madder have been carefully transposed from the celebrated Michael Harding oil paint range.

Michael Harding Professional Watercolours have excellent rewetting properties, so dried paint can easily be reused, and favourite mixes can be created and stored in empty pans.

Twenty years in the making, these artist watercolours offer a rich and vibrant luminosity with the aim that every colour offers a distinct character to justify its inclusion in this exciting new collection.

Michael Harding Professional Watercolours have been meticulously developed to create highly saturated and vivid colours. Each pigment was painstakingly researched and formulated to perform to its maximum potential. Bound with fine quality gum arabic and honey, the range features 130+ colours, 92 of which are single pigment colours ensuring clean colour mixing and strong contrast.

The spectrum offered is comprehensive, with a broad choice of historical and modern clarity colours. A wide selection of greens are included for plein air, and traditional cadmium colours for their robustness. Rarer colours such as Lapis Lazuli and Rose Madder have been carefully transposed from the celebrated Michael Harding oil paint range.

Michael Harding Professional Watercolours have excellent rewetting properties, so dried paint can easily be reused, and favourite mixes can be created and stored in empty pans.

Twenty years in the making, these artist watercolours offer a rich and vibrant luminosity with the aim that every colour offers a distinct character to justify its inclusion in this exciting new collection.

Series number: 1

Chemical Description: Nickel Azo

Colour index name: PY 150

Colour index number: 12764

Permanence rating: A

ASTM Lightfastness Rating: I

Transparency/Opacity: T

The colours are chosen according to mass tone (colour from tube), undertone (bias of colour when in a thin film), colour strength, relative opacity and the character of the pigment in water colour, ie. granulating, staining or even wash. The resultant colour spectrum ensures the largest number of colours can be mixed from the range. The optimum brilliance of every colour in the Artists' Water Colour range is unparalleled by any other water colour. Remarkably, this brilliance is combined with high permanence.

Granulating/Staining: St

In order to achieve high standards regarding lightfastness, resolubility and stability, Schmincke Horadam watercolours contains only the finest raw materials.

The paints are bound with Kordofan gum arabic from the southern Sahara. Due to the natural source of the binder, the gum arabic does tend to differ slightly year on year. Schmincke continually tests their ingredients and the best of the batch is selected to ensure the highest quality is achieved.

Another quality of Schmincke's Horadam watercolours is their re-solubility. You will find the same formulation in both their tubes and pans, which means that paint which has dried onto your palette can be easily re-wetted and painted with again.

In order to achieve high standards regarding lightfastness, resolubility and stability, Schmincke Horadam watercolours contains only the finest raw materials.

The paints are bound with Kordofan gum arabic from the southern Sahara. Due to the natural source of the binder, the gum arabic does tend to differ slightly year on year. Schmincke continually tests their ingredients and the best of the batch is selected to ensure the highest quality is achieved.

Another quality of Schmincke's Horadam watercolours is their re-solubility. You will find the same formulation in both their tubes and pans, which means that paint which has dried onto your palette can be easily re-wetted and painted with again.

In order to achieve high standards regarding lightfastness, resolubility and stability, Schmincke Horadam watercolours contains only the finest raw materials.

The paints are bound with Kordofan gum arabic from the southern Sahara. Due to the natural source of the binder, the gum arabic does tend to differ slightly year on year. Schmincke continually tests their ingredients and the best of the batch is selected to ensure the highest quality is achieved.

Another quality of Schmincke's Horadam watercolours is their re-solubility. You will find the same formulation in both their tubes and pans, which means that paint which has dried onto your palette can be easily re-wetted and painted with again.

In order to achieve high standards regarding lightfastness, resolubility and stability, Schmincke Horadam watercolours contains only the finest raw materials.

The paints are bound with Kordofan gum arabic from the southern Sahara. Due to the natural source of the binder, the gum arabic does tend to differ slightly year on year. Schmincke continually tests their ingredients and the best of the batch is selected to ensure the highest quality is achieved.

Another quality of Schmincke's Horadam watercolours is their re-solubility. You will find the same formulation in both their tubes and pans, which means that paint which has dried onto your palette can be easily re-wetted and painted with again.

Colour number/code: 744

Series number: 1

Chemical Description: Synthetic iron oxide

Colour index name: PY42

Colour index number: 77492

Permanence rating: AA

ASTM Lightfastness Rating: I

Transparency/Opacity: O

Granulating/Staining: -



The range of 40 colours are chosen according to mass tone (colour from tube), undertone (bias of colour when in a thin film), colour strength, relative opacity and the character of the pigment itself. The resultant colour spectrum ensures the largest number of colours can be mixed.

The Cotman Water Colour range has a more uniform consistency than the Artists' Water Colour range and this benefits beginners as there is less to learn about each individual pigment. The Cotman Water Colour range also relates to the Winsor & Newton Artists' Water Colour range, this enables artists to use colours from both ranges with minimal adjustment to their technique.

Pigment: Diketo-Pyrrolo-PyrrolLightfastness: ****Opacity: OpaqueDescription: Metal-free alternative to the traditional vermilion. New developed organic pigment with good lightfastness and opacifying character.

Colour Index: PR255



To achieve the outstanding characteristics, like reusable paint when dried on a palette and the high control of paint flow even on soft water-colour papers Schmincke only use the best raw materials. In its coloristic appearance the total assortment is particularly harmonious, balanced and complete.

One main ingredient of the water-colour binding medium is Kordofan Gum Arabic from the southern Sahara region. Like most natural products this traditional water-colour binding medium differs from year to year. Therefore Schmincke is testing Gum Arabic every time before purchase and selects only the best crop of the respective year. This adds small but significant quality advantages. Other formula ingredients are selected equally carefully and of course are integrated in each formula in an individual optimised way to obtain a harmonious assortment, that can be easily picked up by the brush.

Another traditional quality criterion is the re-usability of the Horadam Aquarell water-colours while using the same formulation for tubes and pans. Both properties, the reusability and the control of the paint flow can only be achieved by pouring water-colours into pans in a liquid state, which is really unique.

Sap Green Deep (PO48 PY3 PB27) is a strong dark green akin to Jadeite Genuine and Perylene Green. This colour is a staple for every palette.

ASTM Lightfastness Rating: Very GoodTransparency: TransparentGranulating: NoStaining: Medium

Rich Green Gold (PY129) is a warm mossy green. This product is an effective choice when depicting fruits, vegetables, leaves and landscapes. Low-staining and lightfast, Rich Green Gold lifts with ease from either a concentrated or dilute wash and from either damp or dry work.

ASTM Lightfastness Rating: Excellent - Not yet rated by ASTM - Rating based on Daniel Smith's independent testing.Transparency: Semi-transparentGranulating: NoStaining: Low

Colour number/code: 337

Series number: 1

Chemical Description: Carbon black, Carbon black

Colour index name: PBk7, PBk6

Colour index number: 77266, 77266

Permanence rating: AA

ASTM Lightfastness Rating: I

Transparency/Opacity: O

Granulating/Staining: -



The range of 40 colours are chosen according to mass tone (colour from tube), undertone (bias of colour when in a thin film), colour strength, relative opacity and the character of the pigment itself. The resultant colour spectrum ensures the largest number of colours can be mixed.

The Cotman Water Colour range has a more uniform consistency than the Artists' Water Colour range and this benefits beginners as there is less to learn about each individual pigment. The Cotman Water Colour range also relates to the Winsor & Newton Artists' Water Colour range, this enables artists to use colours from both ranges with minimal adjustment to their technique.

Pigment: Red iron oxideLightfastness: *****Opacity: OpaqueDescription: Orange coloured brown red. Very colour-intense, opaque pigment; a synthetic red iron oxide. Very good lightfastness.

Colour Index: PR101

To achieve the outstanding characteristics, like reusable paint when dried on a palette and the high control of paint flow even on soft water-colour papers Schmincke only use the best raw materials. In its coloristic appearance the total assortment is particularly harmonious, balanced and complete.

One main ingredient of the water-colour binding medium is Kordofan Gum Arabic from the southern Sahara region. Like most natural products this traditional water-colour binding medium differs from year to year. Therefore Schmincke is testing Gum Arabic every time before purchase and selects only the best crop of the respective year. This adds small but significant quality advantages. Other formula ingredients are selected equally carefully and of course are integrated in each formula in an individual optimised way to obtain a harmonious assortment, that can be easily picked up by the brush.

Another traditional quality criterion is the re-usability of the Horadam Aquarell water-colours while using the same formulation for tubes and pans. Both properties, the reusability and the control of the paint flow can only be achieved by pouring water-colours into pans in a liquid state, which is really unique.

L'Aquarelle Sennelier has been produced in the same way for more than a century using the best pigments and top quality Kordofan Gum Arabic as a bonding agent.This mix of natural ingredients produces colours which have a smooth, bright texture and offer lively, colourful shades. The Gum Arabic and honey combination offers incomparable quality of application, producing superb washes. Then, this base is mixed with pigments and carefully ground. Sennelier makes sure to wet the pigments in purified water (with no mineral salts) for 24 hours before mixing them in with the bonding agent. This improves the way in which the colours and bonding merge together, in turn bringing out the full beauty of the colours.

Sennelier watercolours are ground in the traditional way using grindstones rotating slowly so as not to heat up the paste. This operation is carried out in several stages until the paste are as fine as possible thus getting rid of any particles which might impair the perfection of the wash.

This exceptional and very high quality watercolour will help you make your works even more powerful due to the liveliness and purity of the hues. The colours mix together perfectly, offering superbly subtle shades. These smooth, intense colours will be a genuine pleasure to paint with. The addition of honey will allow the tubes and pans of Sennelier watercolours to stand up to the passing of time and each time you will paint with them you will be able to accurately translate the diversity of light, shape and hues.

ShinHan Artists Watercolour is crafted with the finest high-grade Gum Arabic. To enhance the clarity and depth of colour, single-pigments are used whenever possible and the usage of mixed pigments has been limited. This is a 15ml tube of ShinHan Prussian Blue.Please note, due to trading agreements we are unable to ship ShinHan products to Russia.

Series number: 2

Chemical Description: Complex Sodium Aluminium Silicate containing sulphur

Colour index name: PV 15

Colour index number: 77007

Permanence rating: A(iii)

ASTM Lightfastness Rating: I

Transparency/Opacity: ST

Granulating/Staining: G

The colours are chosen according to mass tone (colour from tube), undertone (bias of colour when in a thin film), colour strength, relative opacity and the character of the pigment in water colour, ie. granulating, staining or even wash. The resultant colour spectrum ensures the largest number of colours can be mixed from the range. The optimum brilliance of every colour in the Artists' Water Colour range is unparalleled by any other water colour. Remarkably, this brilliance is combined with high permanence.