Set of Horadam Aquarell Retro watercolor paints - Schmincke - 8 pcs.

Wanting to tell the story of its rich history, Shmincke launched its Retro line, drawing inspiration from archives containing not only historic paint sets, but also many vintage tubes, brochures and price lists.

While working on the new collection, they discovered a beautiful catalog from 1912 in their archives. It showed one of the old logos depicting an owl and ornaments typical of the Art Nouveau period. This unfortunately already quite worn, but beautiful document was the starting point for the Retro line.

The limited series brings back to life the old Horadam Aquarell watercolor sets. Also unique is the restoration of a historic color with all its original qualities - Cochineal Red.

Beautifully designed retro-style packaging, a vintage owl print on the boxes, retro labels around the tubes and a vintage letter from the founders with a retro watercolor insert complete the concept.

The Horadam Aquarell series of Schmincke watercolors in halfpans are some of the best watercolor paints on the market in the largest range of colors available.

Horadam watercolors have been produced in Germany since 1881. Today, the Horadam line offers 139 luminous, highly pigmented shades and 40 supergranulating shades. As many as 152 of 179 colors are characterized by the highest possible lightfastness (4 out of 5 stars). A large number of 92 single-pigment shades allow amazing results of color mixing, and 22 granulating shades provide exceptional color effects (marked with "G" in the color chart).

Horadam Aquarell watercolor paints are tested to the highest quality standards for stability, fineness, solubility, durability and lightfastness. The perfectly selected formulation, the use of pigments and binders of the highest quality standards have resulted in amazing durability and performance of watercolors.

These paints have the ability to reactivate. You can easily moisten and pick up Horadam paints from the palette and paint with it again without effort or excessive water. Moreover, they guarantee a controlled gradient of colors - even on soft watercolor paper. The key ingredient in Horadam watercolors is the gum Arabic Kordofan obtained from Acacia Verek trees. It comes from the dry zones lying south of the Sahara. Due to its natural origin, gum Arabic Kordofan has extraordinary properties to stabilize paints.

Horadam watercolor pans are filled with paint four times and the process of creating each cube takes up to 4 months! Slow and meticulous filling of paints is created in four stages - layer after layer with evaporation of water between layers. When the cubes or half-pans are completely filled with each of the four layers, paints with amazing properties are obtained - just a little bit of water is enough to activate the pigments. You get concentrated paints that guarantee excellent lightfastness, incredible performance and unparalleled color guidance.

Features:

- 139 brilliant, intense watercolours in halfpans, pans and tubes + oxgall;

- 40 supergranulating colors;

- 152 of the 179 colors with highest possible lightfastness (4 + 5 stars);

- pans poured 4 times in liquid state for highest yield;

- same color recipes for pans and tubes;

- high control of paint flow - even on soft watercolour papers;

- fully reusable paint when dried on a palette;

- quality assortment "Made in Germany";

- selected Gum arabic as binder and natural oxgall as traditional wetting agent.

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Download super-granulating color chart - click.
Download the brochure of Horadam Aquarell - click.