Winsor & Newton Professional Watercolour 5ml - Winsor Orange (Series 1) 0118878
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A single pigment colour, Winsor Orange is a semi-opaque pigment with excellent mixing qualities.
Winsor & Newton Professional Watercolour 5ml - Cobalt Turquoise (Series 4) 0118388
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Cobalt Turquoise is a blend of blue and green pigments. The name stems from the French 'Turquoise' for the semi-precious stone that was exported to Europe from Persia via Turkey.
Winsor & Newton Professional Watercolour 5ml - Prussian Blue (Series 1) 0118655
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Prussian Blue is a deep blue colour. It was made by German chemist Diesbach around 1704 making it the first synthetic blue pigment. It quickly gained favour as an alternative to genuine Ultramarine.
Winsor & Newton Professional Watercolour 5ml - Antwerp Blue (Series 1) 0118126
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Antwerp blue is a rich transparent blue colour. It is a softer version of Prussian Blue which was the first synthetic blue pigment. It was made by German chemist Diesbach around 1704.
Winsor & Newton Professional Watercolour 5ml - Chinese White (Series 1) 0118312
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Chinese White is a zinc based opaque white colour. Winsor & Newton were the first to sell Chinese White in England in 1834. It was named after the popular Chinese porcelain imported at the time.
Winsor & Newton Professional Watercolour 5ml - Cobalt Blue (Series 4) 0118362
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Cobalt Blue is a clean blue pigment. It was discovered in 1802 by French chemist Louis Thénard as an alternative pigment to the expensive Lapis Lazuli blue pigment.
Winsor & Newton Professional Watercolour 5ml - Caput Mortuum Violet (Series 2) 0118274
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Caput Mortuum Violet is a soft mauve-brown colour. It is an opaque pigment. It was called Caput Mortuum (meaning 'head of the dead') by the Romans, referring to the colour of dried blood.
Winsor & Newton Professional Watercolour 5ml - Perylene Violet (Series 2) 0307900
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Perylene Violet is a single pigment colour made using PV29. The masstone colour is a very dark and intense maroon, which shifts toward a dull red violet in tints. The paint makes an interesting shadow accent colour for portraits and figures, but used lightly, it has a purplish brown colour when dried. ...Show more
Winsor & Newton Professional Watercolour 5ml - Quinacridone Gold (Series 3) 0118690
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Quinacridone Gold is a dark warm yellow colour which was originally formulated for the car industry. It is a transparent colour and mixes well with other pigments.
Winsor & Newton Professional Watercolour 5ml - Perylene Green (Series 2) 0307890
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Perylene Green is a dark transparent green pigment. Undiluted, it is almost a black colour. Perylene is a modern synthetic organic pigment and was first available in the late 1950s.
Winsor & Newton Professional Watercolour 5ml - Oxide of Chromium (Series 3) 0118605
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Oxide of Chromium is an opaque willow green pigment. Though discovered in 1809 it was only made available for artists in 1862. Today, it is commonly used for camouflage clothing.
Winsor & Newton Professional Watercolour 5ml - Ultramarine (Green Shade) (Series 2) 0118813
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Ultramarine (Green Shade) is a rich deep transparent blue with green undertones, differing from the red undertones of French Ultramarine. French chemist Guimet created synthetic Ultramarine in 1828.