Finest artists' watercolours, series 14

The new, optimized and enlarged 140 assortment:  

• 139 brilliant, intense colours + Oxgall: 100 unchanged tones, 35 new tones, 4 optimized tones in highest quality as always 
• 112 tones with highest possible lightfastness (4 and 5 stars)  
• 95 one-pigment-tones for brilliant mixing results 
• Enlarged colour ranges due to new pigment classes as well as 20 new pigments, e.g. quinacridone, perylene, transparent iron oxides 
• Enlargement of the AQUA mediums assortment: 3 new mediums for more creative options 

Well appreciated quality remains: 

• Pans poured 4 times in liquid state for highest yield 
• Especially selected Gum Arabic as binding medium 
• Fully reusable paint when dried on a palette 
• High control of paint flow, even on soft watercolour papers 
• Quality assortment "Made in Germany" 
• Same colour recipes for pans and tubes 
• 139 colours in full and half pans as well as in 5 ml- and 15 ml-tubes 

In the Jubilee Year 2017, Schmincke enlarges and optimizes - after some years of research by the Schmincke lab - the HORADAM^® watercolours to the premium 140 assortment. The capabilities of newest pigments, the inclusion of customer wishes and market analysis, as well as changes in the raw material market gave us the impulse to perfect the assortment and to extend the colour range. 

35 new colours, among these 32 one-pigment-tones, fill the harmonic colour spectrum of the HORADAM^® premium assortment. The increased use of highly lightfast pigments, such as Quinacridone and Perylene, offers completely new possibilities for the artist. 10 new red colours, 3 new one-pigment violet colours, 4 new black tones and 8 new brown colours, partly transparent like e.g. Transparent Ochre or Transparent Umber, have been added to the premium assortment. The ultramarine range has been enlarged with the famous colour French Ultramarine.  

100 well-tried and traditional colours as well as Oxgall – the wetting agent - already fit to the highest quality standards, so that there was no need for a change. 4 colours (with remaining shades) have been optimized using the newest and best raw materials. 6 colours are omitted due to raw materials which aren’t available anymore.  

Unique pigments – new colours – completed coloristic 

Quinacridones: These highly lightfast pigments are used to complete the quinacridone range from 6 to 9 tones, visible in the name, e.g. Quinacridone red light.  

Perylenes: Using completely new, highly lightfast perylene pigments this range is enlarged; 3 new colours (Perylene green, Perylene red deep, Perylene violet).  

Ultramarine: This range gets with the French Ultramarine a much asked for one-pigment colour, a reddish, intense and granulating blue, coloristically situated between the three already existing ultramarines. 

Transparent iron oxides: The 3 new transparent colours Transparent Ochre, Transparent Sienna as well as Transparent Umber complete the spectrum of opaque brown colours. These transparent colours are rare due to the very hard and difficult to process consistency with these pigments. 

Brilliant tones: The existing brilliant colours have been optimized due to changing on the raw material market. The new pigments have nearly the same coloristic, but a better quality. The new brilliant tone Brilliant Opera Rose, especially for painting flowers, has been added. All brilliant colours now contain a mixture of fluorescent and highly lightfast pigments. Due to the influence of light on the fluorescent components of the colours, the brilliant tones do not have an evaluation of lightfastness.  

Black/Grey: 3 new colours – Graphite Grey, Hematite Black and Mars Black enlarge the spectrum.  

Potters Pink: This worldwide well-known colour, containing the special pigment PR 233, has been added to the assortment, too.