Roman Szmal Aquarius Watercolours pans

Roman Szmal

Aquarius Watercolors

All AQUARIUS watercolors have excellent lightfastness (minimum rating of 7 on the Blue Wool scale), which means that the colors will not fade for at least 100 years (if used correctly). In contrast to other watercolors, the palette of our Aquarius colors consists exclusively of lightfast pigments.
For this reason, our products do not contain any non-permanent pigments, such as PG8, PR83, PY1 or fluorescent. On the other hand, they contain some unique tones not available anywhere else, like PY61, PY168, PV37, PBr23 or PBk8.
 
We only make small batches of our paints, which allows us to maintain an exceptional quality of our paints. Each batch is tested for its performance characteristics: vibrancy, flowability, viscosity, color value, transparency, grain, undertone, color strength, clarity and particle size. For each color we choose the perfect cut that matches the particle size and is optimal for the color's performance.
 
We currently manufacture 180 colours, 154 are mono-pigment colours. Such a wide range of mono-pigment colors allows artists to mix them and create their own high-quality color palettes.
 
Our 34 EARTH SHADES are made from natural earth, not synthetic iron oxides. With colors such as Aquarius Black, Mummy Transparent Red, Hämatite, Van Dyck Brown or Caput Mortuum, we give the artist even more choice.
 
Some unique shades are created exclusively by ROMAN SZMAL ART, such as: B. Aquarius Green, Przybysz's Grey, Ocean Blue, Shadow Violet, Green Gold and Olive Green.

We use only the highest quality ingredients: pharmaceutical grade gum arabic and glicerine, linden honey, distilled water and pure pigments. We only buy from suppliers with a good reputation.

Each pan of AQUARIUS colors is filled and labeled by hand. The labels of our watercolors are made of hand-painted watercolor paper and provide information about lightfastness, grain, transparency and the degree of penetration into paper.