GOUACHE : EXEPTIONAL COLOURING POWER Wonderful for fine art painting. This range of colours is manufactured using Sennelier artists' quality pigments and superior quality natural gums. The unctuous consistency of these colours enables the creation of regular backgrounds. These Artists' quality Gouaches have exceptional colouring power and give deep and opaque brush strokes. These colours are mixable with each other and are highly colourfast (with the exception of a few clearly mentioned tones, necessary for illustration work). Sennelier Gouaches can be applied with a brush, air-brush or quill, on most types of thick paper and card. Water-soluble, they can be mixed with watercolours and inks in order to obtain other combinations of opacity or transparency. Sennelier Egg Tempera is an authentic formulation of classic egg tempera as used by artists since the Renaissance. In fact, before the rise of oil painting, egg tempera was the predominant painting medium in the 16th century. Much of the religious panel painting done between the 12th and the 15th century was done in this delicate and subtle medium, which is capable of detailed and complex effects. The Sennelier egg tempera is famous as the medium used by Marc Chagall in many of his most spectacular works.

EGG TEMPERA Egg tempera is a semi opaque water soluble and permanent painting medium wonderful for fine art painting, restoration and icon painting. It is perfect for oil painters who need a highly pigmented, fine art color alternative to oil painting and its solvents. Its archival characteristics are excellent and do not age or yellow like oil paints, as evidenced by lasting luminosity and beauty of Renaissance paintings. Sennelier uses the same premium quality pigments in this line of egg tempera as they do in their oil paints, assuring the same unequaled vibrancy and brilliance as in the Sennelier oils. It is bound with an centuries old egg emulsion recipe, giving a satin-matt finish that is water resistant when dry. Sennelier egg tempera have working qualities and a finish that are only found in authentic egg tempera made in this traditional manner. These delicate colours hold their brush strokes, and do not change when dry. They can be worked with a brush or a palette knife (diluted with water) on non-greasy supports like acrylic primed canvas or paper. Preliminary sketches can be drawn on canvases, followed by oil paints. Pronounced impasto techniques are not recommended for egg tempera. Varnished egg tempera paintings look like oil paintings when varnished. It is recommended to give a finished egg tempera painting a coating of charcoal or pastel fixative before applying a final oil paint picture varnish.

HONEY-BASED WATERCOLOUR The roots of Sennelier watercolors are to be found in the Impressionist school. At that time, painters drew their inspiration from nature and set out to reproduce natural light. Watercolor technique offered spontaneity, lightness of touch, fluidity and transparency allowing a quick translation of a particular light, vibration or shape. Paul Cézanne, for instance, produced forty or so watercolors of the Mont Sainte Victoire in Provence. Earlier on in England and on the Normandy coast in France, William Turner had turned painting in watercolors as an art form in its own right and had even managed to produce genuine masterpieces. Since then watercolors have become an established part of the history of painting. Artists love them because of their radiance and their spontaneity. It is such a pleasure when the painter plays with the light of the paper and the brightness of fleeting, intense pigments as they glisten, come together and swirl around under his brush producing a whole host of different effects. A watercolor tailored to the needs of today's artists. We spent a long time working with many different artists to produce L'Aquarelle Sennelier. We consulted watercolorists from all over the world. A panel of professional painters carried out "blind" tests on a number of formulations. They clearly revealed what they were looking for: a watercolor which is luminous, brilliant and intense. L'Aquarelle Sennelier fulfils their every wish. A honey-based watercolor. Honey has many virtues: a symbol of light and sun, an emblem of poetry and science and has been used since Ancient times as a remedy for dry skin and to help heal wounds. This nectar is used in L'Aquarelle Sennelier not only as a preservative but as an additive giving incomparable brilliance and smoothness to the paint. Always striving for excellence, Sennelier has reworked its watercolor formula with increasing the amount of Honey in the paint to reinforce the longevity of the colors, their radiance and luminosity. Watercolors Made in France using traditional methods. 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 watercolors 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 watercolor 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 watercolors 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.

EI-TEMPERA Die von Gustave Sennelier im Jahr 1895 entwickelte Tempera ist eine Emulsion aus natürlichen Produkten. Als Grundlage dienen ihr die Rezepturen der Meister des 16. Jahrhunderts. Sie setzt sich aus Eigelb, nicht vergilbendem, reinem Pflanzenöl, Gummi Arabicum, natürlichem Balsam als Bindemittel und aus ausgewählten Pigmenten (hauptsächlich Mineralpigmente) zusammen. Diese Farben werden auf herkömmliche Weise mit Mühlsteinen zerkleinert, um der Tradition treu zu bleiben. Die herkömmliche Rezeptur verleiht den Tönen eine außergewöhnliche Frische und starke Leuchtkraft. Es handelt sich um ein Sortiment aus 32 Tönen mit höchster Lichtechtheit, das alle Nuancen umfasst, die für die Ausgewogenheit der Farbpalette erforderlich sind. Die Anwendung ist einfach. Die Temperafarben werden mit Wasser verdünnt, trocknen rasch und ergeben einen matt-seidigen Film. Sie werden normalerweise als dünne, überdeckbare Lasuren aufgetragen, aber es ist auch möglich, in Schichten zu malen, und die Licht- und Schattenwirkung einzubeziehen. Die geschmeidige Konsistenz der Tempera ergibt einen fließenden Pinselstrich. Obwohl die dünn aufgetragene Tempera das Übermalen erleichtert, ist ihre Deckkraft bemerkenswert. Temperafarben werden auf Leinwand, Holz, Pappe... sowie auf allen Unterlagen angewandt, die mit einer ölfreien Grundierung fachgerecht vorbereitet wurden. Es ist möglich, die Arbeit an einem Tempera-Gemälde mit Ölfarbe fortzusetzen. Nach einer Trocknungsphase von einigen Monaten, kann das Werk gefirnisst werden : entweder mit Gouache-Firnis, um es in seinem ursprünglichen Zustand zu erhalten, oder mit einem Firnis für Ölfarbe, wenn man der Tempera das Aussehen von Ölfarbe verleihen möchte.