SAA Artists' Watercolours - Loose Colour
Variants & Options: 43 colours and 3 sizes
Our own range of artists’ watercolours feature exceptionally bold, brilliant shades, offering versatile, pigment-rich paint. Used by professionals and enthusiasts, they are the perfect combination of quality and value, the tubes and pans in the SAA watercolour range giving spectacular results time after time.
Key features:
High quality pigments – some granulating
Excellent tinting strength
Superb transparency and high lightfast ratings
Key features:
High quality pigments – some granulating
Excellent tinting strength
Superb transparency and high lightfast ratings
Options
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Opaque White
Price from £4.95Enjoy quality and vibrancy at a fantastic price with these exciting SAA Whole Pans!
Available in a range of shades, the high quality pigments are rich and creamy. Liquid filled rather than baked, the pans are easily activated and the paint quickly loads onto your brush to produce bright, strong colour with ease. And because they’re Whole Pans, you can easily take them out and about with you.
Colour: Opaque White
Pigment: PW6
Transparency: Opaque
Lightfastness: ***
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Primrose Yellow
Price from £4.95Enjoy quality and vibrancy at a fantastic price with these exciting SAA Whole Pans!
Available in a range of shades, the high quality pigments are rich and creamy. Liquid filled rather than baked, the pans are easily activated and the paint quickly loads onto your brush to produce bright, strong colour with ease. And because they’re Whole Pans, you can easily take them out and about with you.
Colour: Primrose Yellow
Pigment: PY3
Transparency: Transparent
Lightfastness: **
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Cadmium Lemon Hue
Price from £4.95Enjoy quality and vibrancy at a fantastic price with these exciting SAA Whole Pans!
Available in a range of shades, the high quality pigments are rich and creamy. Liquid filled rather than baked, the pans are easily activated and the paint quickly loads onto your brush to produce bright, strong colour with ease. And because they’re Whole Pans, you can easily take them out and about with you.
Colour: Cadmium Lemon Hue
Pigment: PY74
Transparency: Transparent
Lightfastness: ***
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Aureolin Hue
Price from £4.95Enjoy quality and vibrancy at a fantastic price with these exciting SAA Whole Pans!
Available in a range of shades, the high quality pigments are rich and creamy. Liquid filled rather than baked, the pans are easily activated and the paint quickly loads onto your brush to produce bright, strong colour with ease. And because they’re Whole Pans, you can easily take them out and about with you.
Colour: Aureolin Hue
Pigment: PY83
Transparency: Transparent
Lightfastness: **
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Quinacridone Gold Hue
Price from £8.50Quinacridone Gold Hue is just one of the many beautiful colours in the SAA Artists' Watercolour collection.
Each 15ml tube combines the finest pigments, with the highest quality production standards, and represents fantastic value for money for any watercolour painter.
Quinacridone Gold Hue is a well-known favourite, offering an alternative to Raw Sienna and adds versatility with its mixing capabilities.
Geoff Kersey uses it to give that vivid golden glow so reminiscent of the colours on a bright autumn morning.
Colour: Quinacridone Gold Hue
Pigment: PY83/PBr25
Transparency: Transparent
Lightfastness: **
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Cadmium Orange Hue
Price from £4.95Enjoy quality and vibrancy at a fantastic price with these exciting SAA Whole Pans!
Available in a range of shades, the high quality pigments are rich and creamy. Liquid filled rather than baked, the pans are easily activated and the paint quickly loads onto your brush to produce bright, strong colour with ease. And because they’re Whole Pans, you can easily take them out and about with you.
Colour: Cadmium Orange Hue
Pigment: PO5
Transparency: Transparent
Lightfastness: **
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Transparent Orange
Price from £8.50Transparent Cadmium Orange is just one of the many beautiful colours in the SAA Artists' Watercolour collection.
Each 14ml tube combines the finest pigments, with the highest quality production standards, and represents fantastic value for money for any watercolour painter.
This fresh, bright orange will give a rich warmth to your palette, with clean, non-granulating, transparent coverage.
This shade provides a crisper tone than the opaque cadmium orange, making it ideal for use in a glowing sunset, vibrant flowers or fresh fruit.
Pigment Composition: Dichlorobenzidine, Azo Red, Disazo
Colour Index No.: PO13, PR112, PY83
Transparency: ST (Semi-Transparent)
Permanence: AA (Extremely Permanent) -
Naples Yellow Hue
Price from £4.95Enjoy quality and vibrancy at a fantastic price with these exciting SAA Whole Pans!
Available in a range of shades, the high quality pigments are rich and creamy. Liquid filled rather than baked, the pans are easily activated and the paint quickly loads onto your brush to produce bright, strong colour with ease. And because they’re Whole Pans, you can easily take them out and about with you.
Colour: Naples Yellow Hue
Pigment: PW6/PY83/PBr25
Transparency: Opaque
Lightfastness: **
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Vermilion Hue
Price from £7.75Vermillion Hue is just one of the many beautiful colours in the SAA Artists' Watercolour collection.
Each 14ml tube combines the finest pigments, with the highest quality production standards, and represents fantastic value for money for any watercolour painter.
A permanent, orange red pigment, this opaque colour is similar to scarlet, perfect for introducing touches of bright brilliance into any painting.
Pigment Composition: Azo Red
Colour Index No.:PR112
Transparency: ST(Semi-Transparent)
Permanence: A (Permanent under normal conditions) -
Alizarin Crimson
Price from £4.95Enjoy quality and vibrancy at a fantastic price with these exciting SAA Whole Pans!
Available in a range of shades, the high quality pigments are rich and creamy. Liquid filled rather than baked, the pans are easily activated and the paint quickly loads onto your brush to produce bright, strong colour with ease. And because they’re Whole Pans, you can easily take them out and about with you.
Colour: Alizarin Crimson
Pigment: PR170
Transparency: Transparent
Lightfastness: **
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Scarlet Lake
Price from £4.95Enjoy quality and vibrancy at a fantastic price with these exciting SAA Whole Pans!
Available in a range of shades, the high quality pigments are rich and creamy. Liquid filled rather than baked, the pans are easily activated and the paint quickly loads onto your brush to produce bright, strong colour with ease. And because they’re Whole Pans, you can easily take them out and about with you.
Colour: Scarlet Lake
Pigment: PR112
Transparency: Transparent
Lightfastness: **
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Permanent Rose
Price from £8.50Permanent Rose is just one of the many beautiful colours in the SAA Artists' Watercolour range.
Each 15ml tube combines the finest pigments, with the highest quality production standards, and represents fantastic value for money for any watercolour painter.
Permanent, intense deep rose colour, with a transparent quality - perfect for adding highlights to skin tones, landscapes and florals.
Colour: Permanent Rose
Pigment: PO5/PR112
Transparency: Transparent
Lightfastness: **
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Rose Madder
Price from £8.50Rose Madder is just one of the many beautiful colours in the SAA Artists' Watercolour collection.
Each 15ml tube combines the finest pigments, with the highest quality production standards, and represents fantastic value for money for any watercolour painter.
With exceptional transparent qualities, this permanent, cool crimson colour creates stunning skies - especially when mixed with blues.
Colour: Rose Madder
Pigment: PR170, PR184
Transparency: Transparent
Lightfastness: **
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Quinacridone Magenta Hue
Price from £4.95Enjoy quality and vibrancy at a fantastic price with these exciting SAA Whole Pans!
Available in a range of shades, the high quality pigments are rich and creamy. Liquid filled rather than baked, the pans are easily activated and the paint quickly loads onto your brush to produce bright, strong colour with ease. And because they’re Whole Pans, you can easily take them out and about with you.
Colour: Quinacridone Magenta Hue
Pigment: PR184
Transparency: Transparent
Lightfastness: **
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Cobalt Violet Hue
Price from £8.50Cobalt Violet Hue is just one of the many beautiful colours in the SAA Artists' Watercolour collection.
Each 14ml tube combines the finest pigments, with the highest quality production standards, and represents fantastic value for money for any watercolour painter.
A spectacular, semi-transparent middle violet - perfect for painting morning skies, fantastic
florals and evocative flesh tone shadows.
Pigment Composition: Quinacridone Pink/Dioxazine Violet
Colour Index No.:PR12/PV23
Transparency T Ytansparent
Permanence: A ( Permanent) -
Intense Violet
Price from £4.95Enjoy quality and vibrancy at a fantastic price with these exciting SAA Whole Pans!
Available in a range of shades, the high quality pigments are rich and creamy. Liquid filled rather than baked, the pans are easily activated and the paint quickly loads onto your brush to produce bright, strong colour with ease. And because they’re Whole Pans, you can easily take them out and about with you.
Colour: Intense Violet
Pigment: PV23
Transparency: Transparent
Lightfastness: **
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Phthalo Blue (Red Shade)
Price from £4.95Enjoy quality and vibrancy at a fantastic price with these exciting SAA Whole Pans!
Available in a range of shades, the high quality pigments are rich and creamy. Liquid filled rather than baked, the pans are easily activated and the paint quickly loads onto your brush to produce bright, strong colour with ease. And because they’re Whole Pans, you can easily take them out and about with you.
Colour: Phthalo Blue (Red Shade)
Pigment: PB15:1
Transparency: Transparent
Lightfastness: ***
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Ultramarine Violet
Price from £8.50Ultramarine Violet is just one of the many beautiful colours in the SAA Artists' Watercolour collection.
Each 14ml tube combines the finest pigments, with the highest quality production standards, and represents fantastic value for money for any watercolour painter.
This is a rich, warm blue with hints of violet which emerge as it dries.
The granulating qualities of the paint mean that it splits beautifullly giving subtle pinky tones, ideal for bluebells or as a lovely background shade.
Pigment Composition: Ultramarine, Dioxazine
Colour Index No.: PB29, PV23
Transparency: SO (Semi Opaque)
Permanence: A (Permanent under normal conditions) -
Non-Granulating Ultramarine
Price from £4.95Enjoy quality and vibrancy at a fantastic price with these exciting SAA Whole Pans!
Available in a range of shades, the high quality pigments are rich and creamy. Liquid filled rather than baked, the pans are easily activated and the paint quickly loads onto your brush to produce bright, strong colour with ease. And because they’re Whole Pans, you can easily take them out and about with you.
Colour: Non-Granulating Ultramarine
Pigment: PB60
Transparency: Transparent
Lightfastness: ***
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Phthalo Blue Red Shade
Price from £8.50Phthalo Blue Red Shade is just one of the many beautiful colours in the SAA Artists' Watercolour collection.
Each 15ml tube combines the finest pigments, with the highest quality production standards, and represents fantastic value for money for any watercolour painter.
This version of the popular Phthalo Blue leans towards a warmer, blue violet. It will add a smooth depth to your blues.
Colour: Phthalo Blue Red Shade
Pigment: PB15:1
Transparency: Transparent
Lightfastness: ***
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Tropical Phthalo Blue
Price from £4.95Enjoy quality and vibrancy at a fantastic price with these exciting SAA Whole Pans!
Available in a range of shades, the high quality pigments are rich and creamy. Liquid filled rather than baked, the pans are easily activated and the paint quickly loads onto your brush to produce bright, strong colour with ease. And because they’re Whole Pans, you can easily take them out and about with you.
Colour: Tropical Phthalo Blue
Pigment: PB15:3
Transparency: Transparent
Lightfastness: ***
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Cobalt Blue Hue
Price from £8.50Cobalt Blue Hue is just one of the many beautiful colours in the SAA Artists' Watercolour collection.
Each 15ml tube combines the finest pigments, with the highest quality production standards, and represents fantastic value for money for any watercolour painter.
This popular, transparent blue is particularly useful for introducing cool colours or adding granulating textures to subjects such as skies.
Cobalt Blue Hue is extremely permanent under normal conditions, and its
transparent tinting power makes it a firm favourite among artists' !
Colour: Cobalt Blue Hue
Pigment: PB29
Transparency: Transparent
Lightfastness: ***
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Prussian Blue Hue
Price from £4.95Enjoy quality and vibrancy at a fantastic price with these exciting SAA Whole Pans!
Available in a range of shades, the high quality pigments are rich and creamy. Liquid filled rather than baked, the pans are easily activated and the paint quickly loads onto your brush to produce bright, strong colour with ease. And because they’re Whole Pans, you can easily take them out and about with you.
Colour: Prussian Blue Hue
Pigment: PB15:3 / PB60 / PBk7
Transparency: Transparent
Lightfastness: ***
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Turquoise
Price from £8.50Turquoise is just one of the many beautiful colours in the SAA Artists' Watercolour collection.
Each 15ml tube combines the finest pigments, with the highest quality production standards, and represents fantastic value for money for any watercolour painter.
Turquoise is a stunning, bright turquoise is a beautiful green-blue, perfect for adding vibrant foreground tones and creating striking seascapes!
Colour: Turquoise
Pigment: PB15:3 / PG7
Transparency: Transparent
Lightfastness: ***
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Indigo
Price from £8.50Indigo is just one of the many beautiful colours in the SAA Artists' Watercolour collection.
Each 15ml tube combines the finest pigments, with the highest quality production standards, and represents fantastic value for money for any watercolour painter.
Ideal for adding a touch of depth to stormy seas or drama to moody skies this atmospheric colour creates beautiful clean washes and perfect understated purples.
Colour: Indigo
Pigment: PB29/PBk7
Transparency: Transparent
Lightfastness: ***
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Viridian Hue
Price from £4.95Enjoy quality and vibrancy at a fantastic price with these exciting SAA Whole Pans!
Available in a range of shades, the high quality pigments are rich and creamy. Liquid filled rather than baked, the pans are easily activated and the paint quickly loads onto your brush to produce bright, strong colour with ease. And because they’re Whole Pans, you can easily take them out and about with you.
Colour: Viridian Hue
Pigment: PG7
Transparency: Transparent
Lightfastness: ***
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Lime Green
Price from £4.95Enjoy quality and vibrancy at a fantastic price with these exciting SAA Whole Pans!
Available in a range of shades, the high quality pigments are rich and creamy. Liquid filled rather than baked, the pans are easily activated and the paint quickly loads onto your brush to produce bright, strong colour with ease. And because they’re Whole Pans, you can easily take them out and about with you.
Colour: Lime Green
Pigment: PY3/PG36
Transparency: Transparent
Lightfastness: **
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Cobalt Green Hue
Price from £7.75Cobalt Green is just one of the many beautiful colours in the SAA Artists' Watercolour collection.
Each 14ml tube combines the finest pigments, with the highest quality production standards, and represents fantastic value for money for any watercolour painter.
Offering beautiful granulation which gives the impression of milky separation, this enchanting colour will add a touch of texture to any watercolour.
Pigment Composition:Monoazo; Arylamide, Titanium Dioxide, Polychlorinated Copper Phthalocyanine
Colour Index No.:PY3/PW6/PG7
Transparency: O (Opaque)
Permanence: AA -
Phthalo Green
Price from £8.50Phthalo Green is just one of the many beautiful colours in the SAA Artists' Watercolour collection.
Each 14ml tube combines the finest pigments, with the highest quality production standards, and represents fantastic value for money for any watercolour painter.
Thanks to its unique, high tinting and transparent properties, this extremely permanent, dark bluish green, has become recognised as one of the most popular and versatile colours in the artists' palette.
Pigment Composition: Chlorinated Phthalocyanine
Colour Index No.:PG7
Transparency: ST (Semi-Transparent)
Permanence: AA (Extremely Permanent) -
Hookers Green
Price from £4.95Hookers Green is just one of the many beautiful colours in the SAA Artists' Watercolour collection.
Each 15ml tube combines the finest pigments, with the highest quality production standards, and represents fantastic value for money for any watercolour painter.
This semi-transparent dark, muted, yellow green is perfect for creating natural foliage.
Hookers Green is permanent under normal conditions, and its warm, semi-transparent quality is great for stains and glazes - or adding depth to darker shades.
Colour: Hookers Green
Pigment: PY3/PG36/PBr25
Transparency: Transparent
Lightfastness: **
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Yellow Ochre
Price from £4.95Enjoy quality and vibrancy at a fantastic price with these exciting SAA Whole Pans!
Available in a range of shades, the high quality pigments are rich and creamy. Liquid filled rather than baked, the pans are easily activated and the paint quickly loads onto your brush to produce bright, strong colour with ease. And because they’re Whole Pans, you can easily take them out and about with you.
Colour: Yellow Ochre
Pigment: PY42
Transparency: Transparent
Lightfastness: ***
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Olive Green
Price from £8.50Olive Green is just one of the many beautiful colours in the SAA Artists' Watercolour collection.
Each 15ml tube combines the finest pigments, with the highest quality production standards, and represents fantastic value for money for any watercolour painter.
This rich Olive Green is a dark, organic tone can be used in a wide variety of subjects, especially suited to landscapes and botanical studies due to its natural overtones.
Colour: Olive Green
Pigment: PY83/PG7/PBk7
Transparency: Transparent
Lightfastness: **
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Green Gold
Price from £8.50Green Gold is just one of the many beautiful colours in the SAA Artists' Watercolour collection.
Each 15ml tube combines the finest pigments, with the highest quality production standards, and represents fantastic value for money for any watercolour painter.
This beautiful Green Gold is light and fresh, giving your yellows depth and natural purity. Ideal for a variety of subjects from landscape to still life.
Colour: Green Gold
Pigment: PY83/PG7/PBk7
Transparency: Transparent
Lightfastness: **
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Burnt Sienna
Price from £8.50Burnt Sienna is just one of the many beautiful colours in the SAA Artists' Watercolour collection.
Each 15ml tube combines the finest pigments, with the highest quality production standards, and represents fantastic value for money for any watercolour painter.
Burnt Sienna is considered a staple colour for most artists' palettes. This rich, reddish-brown is ideal for introducing an added touch of warmth into autumnal colours.
Burnt Sienna is extremely permanent under normal conditions - and its semi-transparent quality is perfect for creating stains and glazes.
Colour: Burnt Sienna
Pigment: PBr25/PY3
Transparency: Transparent
Lightfastness: **
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Caput Mortem
Price from £7.75Caput Mortem is just one of the many beautiful colours in the SAA Artists' Watercolour collection.
Each 14ml tube combines the finest pigments, with the highest quality production standards, and represents fantastic value for money for any watercolour painter.
Warm and rich, this classic brown will add a touch of beautiful opaque soft mauve-brown to enrich any painting.
Pigment Composition: Synthetic Iron Oxide
Colour Index No.:PR101
Transparency: O (Opaque)
Permanance: AA (Extremely Permanent) -
Vandyke Brown
Price from £4.95Enjoy quality and vibrancy at a fantastic price with these exciting SAA Whole Pans!
Available in a range of shades, the high quality pigments are rich and creamy. Liquid filled rather than baked, the pans are easily activated and the paint quickly loads onto your brush to produce bright, strong colour with ease. And because they’re Whole Pans, you can easily take them out and about with you.
Colour: Vandyke Brown
Pigment: PG7/PBr25/PBk7
Transparency: Transparent
Lightfastness: ***
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Indian Red
Price from £7.75Indian Red is just one of the many beautiful colours in the SAA Artists' Watercolour collection.
Each 14ml tube combines the finest pigments, with the highest quality production standards, and represents fantastic value for money for any watercolour painter.
This earthy, brown-red is an organic, chestnut colour comprised of a synthetic iron oxide. Used in a wide variety of subjects, from portraiture to landscape.
Colour Index No: PBK9 / PR101
Transparency: O (Opaque)
Permanence: A -
Paynes Grey (Blue Shade)
Price from £4.95Enjoy quality and vibrancy at a fantastic price with these exciting SAA Whole Pans!
Available in a range of shades, the high quality pigments are rich and creamy. Liquid filled rather than baked, the pans are easily activated and the paint quickly loads onto your brush to produce bright, strong colour with ease. And because they’re Whole Pans, you can easily take them out and about with you.
Colour: Payne's Grey (Blue Shade)
Pigment: PB60/PBk7
Transparency: Opaque
Lightfastness: ***
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Warm Sepia
Price from £8.50Warm Sepia is just one of the many beautiful colours in the SAA Artists' Watercolour collection.
Each 14ml tube combines the finest pigments, with the highest quality production standards, and represents fantastic value for money for any watercolour painter.
Versatile and extremely permanent, this opaque dark brown is perfect for painting stormy skies, adding warmth into lighter tones or introducing depth into darker shades.
Pigment Composition: Calcined Natural Umber/ Carbon Black
Colour Index No.:PBr7/PBk7
Transparency: ST (Semi-Transparent)
Permanence: AA (Extremely Permanent) -
Gold
Price from £8.50Embrace creativity with this fantastic shimmering gold watercolour!
Often very hard to mix yourself, or simply unavailable with real sheen, SAA gold watercolour is the perfect way to give your paintings genuine shimmer and sparkle!
Colour: Gold
Pigment: Pearlescent
Transparency: Transparent
Lightfastness: ***
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Silver
Price from £8.50Launched as part of the SAA 25th Anniversary Celebrations, this silver watercolour will give your paintings real shimmer!
This colour has excellent light fast properties and can be used either on its own, mixed with other colours to give them a subtle glimmer, or as a glaze for that special sheen.
One of the colours known as notoriously tricky to replicate or mix, this tube of silver makes adding sparkle a breeze!
"Mix it in with other colours to give them a sheen, or paint a glaze over the top to add glitter.
It is a good thick consistency and gives decent coverage if used alone on black. I love the way it shimmers into its own whorls and swirls!"
Sharon Hurst, SAA Professional Artist
Each 15ml tube combines the finest pigments, with the highest quality production standards, and represents fantastic value for money for any watercolour painter.
Colour: Silver
Pigment: Pearlescent
Transparency: Opaque
Lightfastness: ***
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Lamp Black
Price from £4.95Enjoy quality and vibrancy at a fantastic price with these exciting SAA Whole Pans!
Available in a range of shades, the high quality pigments are rich and creamy. Liquid filled rather than baked, the pans are easily activated and the paint quickly loads onto your brush to produce bright, strong colour with ease. And because they’re Whole Pans, you can easily take them out and about with you.
Colour: Lamp Black
Pigment: PBk7
Transparency: Opaque
Lightfastness: ***
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Champagne Gold
Price from £8.50Let the champagne bubbles of imagination rise to the top with this sparkling addition to the SAA Artists’ Watercolour range. Created for adding a layer of shimmer to your watercolour work, the pearlescent pigments in this versatile paint can be used both on its own or mixed in with other watercolours.
Use it as a final highlight layer in a seascape to create sunlit sparkles on the crest of a wave, or mix it with a rich yellow for a cornfield in midsummer. Or even use it to add some shimmer on a snowy, festive scene - you can let your creativity run wild!
Whether you want a subtle sheen, or a bold shine, this limited edition 15ml tube of champagne gold is a handy addition to every watercolourists collection
Colour: Champagne Gold
Pigment: Pearlescent
Transparency: Transparent
Lightfastness: ***
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