Gouache Renesans, 20 ml

Professional dry watercolors in pans are made according to traditional recipes based on gum arabic and thoroughly ground pigments and the addition of acacia honey, used as a binder. Almost the entire watercolor production process is carried out manually to ensure the highest quality and purity of the traditional recipe. In their production, selected organic and inorganic pigments are used, including real Polish cadmium and cobalt. This product is characterized by high solubility and a high degree of resistance to light: watercolors are produced by hand and naturally dried. The range consists of 54 colors

The 30 fine AKADEMIE® Gouache colours in artist quality are perfect for beginners in gouache painting and suitable for art education due to their colour properties. The intense, even matt-drying water-based colours have a high opacity and very good mixing properties, they can also easily be rewetted. The attractive value for money of 60ml tubes is a further advantage of this high quality, uncomplicated gouache, which, of course, can be mixed and combined with all other Schmincke gouache series (HORADAM® GOUACHE and HKS® Designers' Gouache).

In order to achieve the highest standard regarding lightfastness, resolubility and stability, Schmincke's HORADAM® use the best raw materials available. There is no compromise in quality - the highest standards of artists' pigments allow the highest level of lightfastness. Schmincke's HORADAM® binding medium is Kordofan Gum Arabic from the Sahara region, due to it differing from year to year it is tested and the best of the batch is selected to used with their pigments. They use an optimal amount of oxgall to avoid undesired coloured formations and undissolved pigment, allowing the perfect flow of colour.

The artistic Renesans dry pastels are still subject to manual production. They are dried in a fully natural way and apply top quality raw materials, including kaolin extracted in Poland, and the best dry pigments. Pastel painting sees use of dry colourful chalklike sticks, without any liquid painting agents, which are applied onto a rough surface. Pastels are composed of painting pigments with chalk, clay, or plaster for binding, which provides a soft, smooth, and easily dusting stroke. A properly created pastel offers freshness, smoothly penetrating colours, no gloss, and bright surface. Each colour is applied individually, which makes it important to have an appropriately wide colour range. Preservation of the dust falling off the surface is possible with a special fixative or a glass frame with passe-partout, which isolates paper from glass. The product range is available in 119 colours of Renesans dry pastels individually or in sets of 12, 24, 36, 48, and 99 colours.