Since 1832, when chemist William Winsor and artist Henry Newton introduced the first moist watercolors, the love affair with Winsor & Newton and the brand's reputation for supreme quality rose from the flagship Artists' Water Colour range. The range of 96 colors is truly unique, with each color carefully formulated and milled according to Winsor & Newton's time-tested founding principles: to artfully and scientifically create colors that are the standard-bearers of clarity and brilliance, and to achieve the greatest possible permanence. The 40 color range of Cotman Watercolors is made to Winsor & Newton's high standards, but cost is reduced by substituting modern organic pigments for more costly metallic pigments. This beautiful range offers excellent lightfastness, good tinting strength, and true optical working properties. And finally, Winsor & Newton Designer's Gouache has long set the standard for opaque watercolors beloved by artists the world over! All imported from England.
Winsor / Newton Artists' Watercolours have been around since 1832 when Henry Newton and William Winsor introduced the first moist watercolors. For over 170 years now Winsor t Newton Artists' Watercolors have been known the world over for their permanence, color brilliance, transparency and for their high quality materials. These colors have been formulated to not only provide brilliant color but the utmost in lightfastness. Most of the watercolor paints within the line are available in either a 5ml, 14ml or 37ml tubes. Find all the specifics about each color within this line on the color detail pages and see if it should be the newest addition to your watercolor art supply.
Winsor Newton employs exacting standards in the production and development of all of their Winsor Newton Watercolour Mediums. Mediums help artists to alter and enhance the characteristics of the watercolour that they are using. By adding the appropriate medium, you can further expand your painting options by increasing granulation or texture, improve blending and lifting, create iridescence, reduce drying time to any watercolor in your watercolor art supply. Mediums do not have the ability to enhance lightfastness or create transparency in a watercolor paint that is not ordinarily transparent. Mediums do provide watercolorists with almost limitless opportunities to apply many variations on their watercolor paintings without compromising the quality of the paint.
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