UNIQUE NEW COLOURS
We have spent over 175 years developing the widest, brightest and most permanent colours for artists. Artists' Acrylic is no exception. This range has 80 colours spread across the widest palette, using single artists' pigments wherever possible. Other acrylic ranges exist with a larger number of colours but these include many mixtures of pigments which could be mixed by the artist.
All 80 colours in Artists' Acrylic are new formulations, giving the brightest and strongest colours. The range also includes 17 exciting new colours, further increasing the number of unique pigments available to acrylic painters. Our research chemists have spent the last few years investigating every possible pigment and its potential for acrylic painters. No other range has this number of unique pigments.
To find out more about each of the 17 new colours, see our
Artists' Acrylic colour chart ยป
Cobalts are traditional semi-opaque pigments with moderate tinting strength, making them easy to control over a wide spectrum. Well-loved by painters wishing to represent images in a natural light or realistic colouring. Our new cobalt colours are Cerulean Blue Chromium, Cobalt Turquoise Light and Cobalt Green.
Inorganics include all the traditional pigments; cadmiums, cobalts, titanium, ultramarine and are generally based on metals. It is unusual for new inorganic pigments to become available as most of the raw materials have already been discovered. We have introduced Potter's Pink - a semi-opaque, low tinting strength, single pigment colour - and Ultramarine Violet - a blue-shade violet - to Artists' Acrylic.
Umbers, Siennas and Ochres are the oldest pigments known to man. Cleaner and brighter than mixtures made from primaries, earths are excellent for toning in shadows and underpainting. Among our new earths: Light Red, Raw Umber Light, Violet Iron Oxide, Yellow Iron Oxide
This family group has been expanded and we are delighted to be able to introduce three totally unique colours: Perylene Green, Perylene Maroon and Perylene Violet.
Modern organic pigments offer lightfast colours of relative transparency over a broad area of the spectrum. Organics are excellent for bright, clean colour mixtures and are favoured by painters for bright light, flowers and abstract images. We have further expanded the spectrum available by introducing the following: Green Gold, Pyrrole Orange, Azo Yellow Deep and Nickel Azo Yellow.
Artists' Acrylic metallics outshine all others, quite literally. Dense, opaque and highly metallic with a beautiful lustre, these colours do not tarnish. Silver No. 2 is a new darker silver which is even more metallic than any mica pigments we've seen before. It is brighter and more opaque which gives it excellent covering power.
