This means that while other brands of watercolour can be re-activated easily and used exactly as if they were fresh after they have been allowed to dry, this is difficult with most Winsor & Newton watercolours. Unlike most other watercolour manufacturers, Winsor & Newton actually use a different formula for their pan paints versus that for their tube paints. The only real issues with this brand will be for artists who like to pour tube paint into their own palette box or half pans and let them dry out. They also move around a lot when used wet-in-wet (especially the granulating colours, which seem especially active in the Winsor & Newton paints). Opaque pigments like the cadmium yellows and reds are really opaque (unlike in some other brands where they’re only semi-opaque) and most colours can easily be lifted from the paper without leaving much of a trace behind. Pigment load is up there with the best, and I find that some colours I use regularly (Cerulean Blue, Dioxazine Violet, Phthalo Blue) seem to look better in Winsor & Newton’s line than in many other brands. So, what are the paints actually like? There’s a reason Winsor & Newton’s artist-grade materials are so popular and widely available they are of a very high quality. Admittedly it was also a bit of an impulse buy, but it was only $80 (from a seller who was closing down their business), and with the addition of a discount coupon I had, the box ended up costing less than half of what it sells for at retail. (note: I am planning to do a dedicated colour chart for the Winsor & Newton watercolours but for now, you can see most of the colours I have in the charts I made for my lightfastness tests across various brands)Īt some point I also picked up a Lightweight Sketchers’ Box with 24 half pans, because I wanted a more portable set (but still with lots of colours) that I could take with me when I visited my grandmother. I’ve played with these and many other watercolours since then so I thought it was time I reviewed Winsor & Newton watercolours on this blog. At first I just bought a few tubes, but gradually accumulated more through online sales (too many, if I’m honest I used to have nearly double the number of tubes you see in the photo below). My grandmother had always used their oil paints so I grew up being familiar with the brand, and the fact that they were available in every art shop around me suggested they must be good quality. When I was starting out in watercolours, many of the instruction books I was reading discussed Winsor & Newton watercolours.
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