AN OUTSTANDING SELECTION OF ARTISTS’ PAINT PRODUCTS FROM JASCO

Winsor & Newton’s Artists’

Watercolour range offers a wide and balanced spectrum of 96 colours in Half Pans, Whole Pans and in 5ml and 14ml tubes. The benefits of using Large Pans is that they have 13 times the surface area of half pans and are ideal for artists who want to paint on a large scale.

Both Artists’ Watercolour tube and pan colours are made individually to the highest standards. Pan colour is often used by beginners because it can be less inhibiting and easier to control the strength of colour. Tube colour is more popular overall, used by regular users, including those who use high volumes of colour or stronger washes of colour.

Many painters have both, as pan colours are useful when travelling and sketching.

In simple terms, a watercolour is produced by combining (or suspending) a pigment with a binder, for example, Gum Kordofan, a type of Gum Arabic. The formulations for Artists’ Watercolours are each unique and vary according to the nature and behaviour of each individual pigment.

Watercolour, more than any other medium, relies upon the variable characteristics of the pigments used. As it is essentially a staining technique, everything rests on the handling properties of the pigments; whether they can produce a smooth wash or a textured wash; how opaque or transparent they are; the brilliance and strength of their colour; and so on.

The world’s industries have also multiplied during the history of Winsor & Newton, leading to the continual development of new pigments. Plastics, ceramics, aviation and car industries have also needed stable, bright, dense colours – and this has been great news for artists. Today, Winsor & Newton Artists’ Watercolours contain an everwidening range of high performance pigments, which ensures strength of colour and excellent brilliance combined with extremely high permanence ratings.

Winsor & Newton Artists’ Oil Colour is unmatched for its purity, quality and reliability. It has 120 colours in the range, offering the widest spectrum of all the Winsor & Newton oil ranges.

Every Winsor & Newton Artists’ Oil Colour is individually formulated to enhance each pigment’s natural characteristics and ensure stability of colour. By exercising maximum quality control throughout all stages of manufacture, and selecting the most suitable drying oils and method of pigment dispersion, the unique individual properties of each colour are preserved.

Artists’ Oil Colour uses the highest level of pigmentation consistent with the broadest handling properties. The quantity of pigment used provides covering power and tinting strength; leading to the saying ‘artists’ quality goes further’.

Like all raw materials, pigments are available in various grades. Winsor & Newton uses only the purest of pigments ensuring the cleanest, brightest colours – which in turn produce the best colour mixtures. Combined with strength of colour, single pigments provide a wide colour range in themselves and offer cleaner, brighter mixtures with an infinite range of hues. This is particularly important for greens, violets and oranges.

The buttery consistency of Artists’ Oil Colour, together with the smell of linseed oil, are the two characteristics most admired by oil painters. These qualities are unbeaten by other media. The stiff consistency of Winsor & Newton colours can retain brush or palette knife marks, or it can be thinned to the very finest of glazes.

Winsor & Newton Artisan Water Mixable Oil Colour has been specifically developed to appear and work just like conventional oil colour. The key difference between Artisan and conventional oils is its ability to thin and clean up with water. Hazardous solvents are not necessary for Artisan, and artists can enjoy a safer painting environment.

There is no water within the formulation of Artisan. The linseed oil and safflower oil vehicles have been modified to allow the colour to accept water, creating a stable emulsion, while retaining the working characteristics of conventional oil colour.

The range has also been formulated with a high proportion of single pigments for brilliance of colour and clean colour mixing. The most suitable oil and methods for dispersion have been selected to bring out the individual characteristics – from opacity to natural transparency –

of each pigment in the Artisan range.

The Artisan range consists of 40 colours and has a dedicated range of 11 Artisan solvents, oils, mediums and varnishes – allowing you to achieve all oil painting techniques.

Winsor & Newton also has a new range of Artists’ Acrylics. What makes these acrylic paints so revolutionary is that Winsor & Newton has developed a new transparent binder that is translucent when wet and dries clear. This ensures there is virtually no shift in colour at all and colours remain as brilliant when dry as they are when wet. The result is a range that allows artists to match colours more easily from palette to canvas and see a painting as it will actually look when finished.

Artists’ Acrylics are unrivalled in their brilliance and depth of colour, bringing exceptional richness and intensity to paintings. The brilliance of Artists’ Acrylics can be seen in the clarity and purity of their colour which is evident when the colour is applied straight from the tube as well as in the thinnest of films.

The Artists’ Acrylic range consists of 80 colours spread across the widest palette, using single pigments wherever possible to provide the brightest and strongest colours. The range also includes 17 exciting new colours, further increasing the number of unique pigments available to acrylic painters.

Artists’ Acrylics have a longer working time on the palette without compromising the convenient drying time of acrylics. The working time is now 20 per cent more than the previous range of Finity Artists’ Acrylics which (in tests with artists) has been found to be just the right amount of time for working with all acrylic painting techniques.

The range includes: 60ml tubes (80 colours), 200ml tubes (26 colours), a Basic Set (6 x 60ml tubes) and a Painting Set (8 x 20ml tubes, 1 x 60ml Titanium White, 1 x 60ml Gloss Medium and two acrylic brushes).

Further information about quality artists’ products can be obtained from JASCO – telephone 1800 676 155.