Schmincke

Working with Schmincke’s finest extra soft pastels will give you a completely unique drawing experience. They have an incredibly high concentration of top quality pigment powder held together by the absolute minimum amount of binding agent - just enough to ensure that they remain a stable compound. Unlike many pastels on the market they also do not contain chalk or additives which helps keep their colouration pure and consistent throughout each pastel. This stripped back recipe results in such soft pastels that Schmincke had to design a costly and time consuming manufacturing process to stop them breaking. Each lump of pre-kneaded pastel dough is rolled into rounded skeins which are sectioned by hand and laid onto a sheet. The skeins are then cut by hand with a wire-strung frame and transferred onto wooden palettes where they are left to dry for around 2 weeks. By this time they are so soft that they need to be wrapped by hand and gently placed in their foam packaging. Contains 200 pcs.

Intermediate varnish for painting in oil. Colourless; non-yellowing; fast drying; does not solve just-dried oil colours; it is possible to add a final varnish based on mineral spirit at once; the dried varnish layer remains soluble in turpentine substitute.

Medium for AERO COLOR® Professional for mixing a textile airbrush colour (mixing ratio: 1:1). Thinner: Water Handling Shake well before use. AERO TEX is ready to use. Should be mixed with AERO COLOR® Professional in a ration of 1:1. Wash, dry and iron the material beforehand. Spray application wet. After finishing the design let it dry out. Iron the reverse side (cotton about 2 min.; silk / wool about 4 – 6 min.; synthetics about 8 min.; temperature should be adapted to the fabric!). Washable at 30 °C; do not dry clean. The product can be diluted with water, but dries up to a water-insoluble film. Please clean tools as soon as possible with water and/or AERO CLEAN RAPID 50606. Best results are achieved with spray application at processing temperatures between 15 and 30 °C, 2 bar air pressure and a nozzle size of > 0,15 mm for coloured shades and 0,3 mm for effect colours. Please don´t use the product below temperatures under 10 °C object- and room-temperatures. Close immediately after use. Store in a cool and dry place. Protect from frost. Individual pre-tests are required. Sizes: 28 ml

This medium is for the preparation of watercolour paper so that already dreid colour can be removed afterwards, so a watercolour painting can be modified or corrected. Especially usefull for staining watercolours, which are hard to remove, marked with the triangle symbol. The medium has to be applied before the colour application, as it isolates the paper. Using very soft, textured paper types like e.g. rag paper, the medium has to be applied purely. For stronger sized papers the medium should be thinned with water. Pre-tests are recommended. As the Lift-off Medium dries to a water-insoluble film, it must never be put into the pans. Please clean tools as soon as possible with water and soap.

Retarder is ready to use and should be mixed with acrylic colours on a separate palette in a ratio of max. 30 %. The effect depends on the amount of added medium; adding around 20 % extends the colour’s drying time by approx. 50 %. The product has no properties for film formation and therefore should not be use in pure form! The product can be diluted with water. Please clean tools as soon as possible with water or water and soap. Just dried acrylic colours can be removed with brush cleaner 50051 / 50052. Please don´t use the product below temperatures under 10 °C object- and room-temperatures. Close immediately after use. Store in a cool and dry place. Protect from frost. Individual pre-tests are required.

Supergranulating colours are watercolours with a special property: the combination of at least 2 granulating HORADAM® pigments intensifies this effect to "supergranulation". The colours are formulated with pigments from different colour ranges, resulting in additional colour changes besides the granulation effect. For example, the shade "Deep Sea Indigo" (14 952) is a combination of violet and green pigments, while "Glacier Brown" (14 965) contains a brown and a green pigment. This novel, natural structure formation of the colours varies depending on the paper and the amount of water used. The rougher the paper, the stronger the granulating effect. The 40 supergranulating colours are divided into 8 thematic series of 5 colours each: Deep Sea, Glacier, Galaxy, Forest, Tundra, Volcano, Shire and Desert. The colours are available in half pans. All supergranulating HORADAM® AQUARELL colours have exclusively 4 and 5 stars lightfastness and contain only pigments already known from HORADAM®. The opacity of the colours is predominantly semi-transparent / semi-opaque. All supergranulating colours can be used on their own and perfectly in combination with all 139 HORADAM® AQUARELL watercolours as well as all AKADEMIE® Aquarell watercolours.