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Horadam Watercolours consist of 110 colours of the utmost brilliance, made under Patent in Germany since 1892 to provide some unique properties:
- Colour dried on the palette is fully re-soluble, so there is no waste, and favourite colours can be reconstituted again and again
- The optimum amount of oxgall is used to provide complete control of the flow of colour even on soft papers
- Tube and Pan colours are made from the same formulas, so pans can be refilled using the tube colour
- Nearly 70% of colours are made from single pigments, for clean mixing results
- There are unique modern colours, such as Helio Cerulean and Translucent Brown, used in conjunction with traditional genuine earth pigments, such as Umbers and the Yellow Raw Ochre.
ABOUT SCHMINCKE
Schmincke began at the end of the 19th Century, when the colour chemists Josef Horadam and Hermann Schmincke saw an opportunity to provide the artists of the day with a truly superior artists oil, and so set out to Italy where traditional studio painting was still taught, in search of the nearly forgotten resin oil formulations.
In 1881, at the Academy of Fine Art in Florence, they secured the precision formulations of the Professor Cesare Mussini, a guardian of the old masters techniques, and on these formulations, the two founded their manufacturing establishment under the name H.Schmincke and Co.
In subsequent years, artists’ colours to suit all techniques were introduced, such as Josef Horadam’s patent watercolours of 1892. Through the entire 20th century, every generation of owner has lead the company to its current position as one of the worlds leading manufacturers of finest artists’ colour.
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