NEW! Winsor & Newton Artists' Acrylic Colour in 474ml pots.
Artists' Acrylic is Winsor & Newton's finest quality acrylic range and represents a breakthrough in acrylic colour technology. After extensive research and development, we are proud to present the brightest ever range of Artists' Acrylic. By combining our world-beating colour making experience with the latest developments in resin technology we have taken 'brilliance' to a new level. And that's not all. Not only are our colours brilliant when wet but they remain as bright when dry - so what you see is what you get. The new acrylic range represents a significant breakthrough in achieving colour brilliance and much, much more.
Unrivalled Colour Brilliance
Brilliance can be defined as the richness, intensity and depth of the colour. Research showed that this is the most important characteristic to an acrylic artist. Consequently, in the development of Artists' Acrylics, they have used world-beating colour making experience to ensure an unrivalled brilliance and depth of colour in the range. Brilliance does not mean the colours are garish. It is about clarity and purity of colour and this should be evident when the colour is applied straight from the tube as well as in the thinnest of films. Even the earths, blacks and whites should be clean and not dull. While the previous range of Artists Acrylic Colour led the way in brilliance, new Artists' Acrylics are unrivalled in their brilliance thanks to a combination of the following:
- A new revolutionary transparent binder
- Single, highest quality pigments
- High pigment strength
No Colour Shift from Wet to Dry
Until now acrylic paints have darkened in tone as they dry, making colour matching difficult, so artists have to remember to allow for this when mixing wet colours. However with this new range, acrylic painters no longer have to cope with colour shift. With Artists' Acrylic, more than any other brand, what you see is what you get. Colour shift is due to the binder changing from white to transparent as it dries. As the white emulsion dries within the colour and becomes clear, the paint becomes more transparent and therefore darker. This causes problems when you are returning to a painting that is already dry or if you are trying to match a dry mix, because you only have the dry mixture to compare it to. Thanks to expertise in colour making and resin technology, they have developed a new unique binder that is translucent when wet and dries clear. It is this that ensures there is virtually no shift in colour at all - any change in colour between wet and dry is equal or less than the equivalent colours in Artists' Oil Colour.
Longer Working Time
One of the major advantages of acrylic colour is that it dries quickly, allowing artists to overpaint within minutes and build up multiple layers during one painting session. However artists can find that acrylics can dry a little too quickly, especially when compared to oil colour, and this can restrict some painting techniques. Having listened to this, they have formulated Artists' Acrylic to have a longer working time on the palette without compromising the convenient drying time of acrylics. The working time of Winsor & Newton Artists' Acrylics is now 20% more than the previous range of Finity Artists' Acrylics which equates to approximately 20-30 minutes (depending on the thickness of the colour). This longer open time makes Artists' Acrylic ideally suited for artists who want plenty of time to work and blend their paints on the palette and canvas. The result is a range that allows artists to match colours more easily from palette to canvas and see a painting as it will actually look when finished.
The full range of 80 colours is available in 60ml tubes. A limited spectrum of the most popular 39 colours are available in 200ml tubes. Blacks and Whites are available in 237ml and 474ml pots.
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