The granulation of this paint allows you to build up layers of tone with every stroke you lay down on your paper. A staining colour, this teal blue has the depth to be used alone, or in a wash or a glaze it blends with other colours easily.

Because of it’s slight granulation you can achieve multi-layers and tone on tone effects to delight and surprise with each addition or stroke.

• Series 3
• Lightfastness Rating: Excellent
• Transparency: Semi-transparent
• Granulating: Yes
• Staining: Non-staining
• (PB36) Cobalt Turquoise

This colour is a deep red-brown colour. It is non granulating but try using it with salt to see the wonderful natural textural effects you can create.

• Series 1
• Lightfastness Rating: Excellent
• Transparency: Semi-transparent
• Granulating: No
• Staining: Medium
• (PR175) Benzimidazolone Red

A primary yellow made with organic semi-transparent pigments, Hansa Yellow Deep has just a touch of orange. It is a pure chroma, semi-transparent colour and is a perfect colour for mixing. The purity of its pigment make it a favourite amongst painters as they can easily use another colour to adjust the temperature of the yellow without greying it.

• Series 1
• Lightfastness Rating: Excellent
• Transparency: Semi-transparent
• Granulating: No
• Staining: Low
• (PY65) Arylide Yellow RN

An earthy brown red, Indian red’s deep tone and granulating properties is the perfect colour for traditional red bricks in architectural paintings.

Mix with other opaque colours Cerulean Blue and Yellow Ochre to produce an opaque grey earth like mixture just right for landscapes. 

• Series 1
• ASTM Lightfastness Rating: Excellent
• Transparency: Opaque
• Granulating: Yes
• Staining: Medium
• (PR101) Indian Red

This luminous earthy sienna tone has a light granulation and a wonderful level of transparency making it perfect for both portraits and landscape paintings.

• Series 1
• Lightfastness Rating: Excellent
• Transparency: Transparent
• Granulating: Yes
• Staining: Low
• (PBr7) Natural Sienna

A semi-transparent colour, Perylene Red is medium staining with a flat, non granulating finish. It creates deep coloured washes with a clean brilliant orange hue. This clean, metal-free sedimentary pigment allows you to mix without accidentally making mud.

• Series 3
• Lightfastness Rating: Excellent
• Transparency: Semi-transparent
• Granulating: No
• Staining: Medium
• (PR178) Perylene Red

Van Dyck Brown is made from a blend Umbers and Siennas to produce a lightfast deep dark brown. The granulating properties give great texture in a wash and the colour can work as an alternative to Sepia.

• Series 1
• ASTM Lightfastness Rating: Excellent
• Transparency: Semi-transparent
• Granulating: Yes
• Staining: Non-staining
• (Blend of PBr7) Umbers, Siennas

This colour can produce a range of tones dependant on the amount of water used with it. From a brilliant purple for florals, to a deep violet suitable for dusk shadows. Mixed with Prussian Green and you get beautiful soft blue hues.

• Series 3
• Lightfastness Rating: Excellent
• Transparency: Semi-transparent
• Granulating: Yes
• Staining: Low
• (PV19 PB28) Cobalt Blue, Quinacridone Red

This colour is a cross of magenta and fuchsia straight out of the tube, but in a wash becomes a beautiful pale fuchsia rose – just think English rose garden! Mix with English Red Ochre for an earthier rose tone.

• Series 2
• ASTM Lightfastness Rating: Excellent
• Transparency: Semi-transparent
• Granulating: No
• Staining: Medium
• (PR264) Pyrrole Crimson

A fully transparent non-staining rich brown completes our trio in celebration to the bamboo. Elemental and versatile it’s granulating properties when blended with Permanent Green changes a sprout to a mature green of tenure and complexity. Used in a low ratio of paint to water in a wash Transparent Brown Oxide becomes almost peach and can be used as a glaze with a remarkable effect adding shadows rich in depth and mystery.

• Series 1
• Lightfastness Rating: Excellent
• Transparency: Transparent
• Granulating: Yes
• Staining: Non-staining
• (PR101)  Transparent Brown Oxide

A highly transparent burnt orange loves to mingle with the lamp black, settling in beneath it, mixing with it to create tones of cinnamon and tobacco. Fire seems to dance on the walls as its peach undertones nestle in with the black. Incredibly warm and non-staining, you can create stunning effects. Glaze it over the French Ochre for a warm fireside glow or layer it over itself for a rich and glowing red ochre that has no equal.

• Series 1
• Lightfastness Rating: Excellent
• Transparency: Transparent
• Granulating: Yes
• Staining: Non-staining
• (PR101)  Transparent Brown Oxide

The colour of a golden Autumn day, French Ochre is a versatile colour. Use it for subtle highlights or add a soft glow to your sky, or use it to create a wheat field. Mix it with Red Scarlet and you get a beautiful melon hue.

• Series 1
• Lightfastness Rating: Excellent
• Transparency: Transparent
• Granulating: Yes
• Staining: Non-staining
• (PY43) French Yellow Ochre

This unusually pure pigment is mined in Russia, south of Moscow. Rich and warm, Goethite is a dark tea colour in masstone and washes out to a rich, warm tan. In washes, it displays intriguing granulation, with pools of light and dark in every brushstroke. Like all colours derived from the earth, it is lightfast and permanent lasting connection to the planet and the creative forces of nature.

• Series 2
• Lightfastness Rating: Excellent
• Transparency: Semi-transparent
• Granulating: Yes
• Staining: Low
• (PY43) Cobalt Blue, Cerulean Blue/Chromium, Zinc White

Verditer Blue is an historical pigment with a place on every palette. A true Blue. Begin with a dark application, a deep azure lake, and watch how this slightly granulating paint travels quickly in water. Fade to the colour of cornflowers and create surprising effects in a wash. Dilute it to the palest baby blue. Enjoy every nuance of this wonderful new semi-transparent watercolour.

• Series 2
• Lightfastness Rating: Excellent
• Transparency: Semi-transparent
• Staining: Low
• Granulating: Yes
• (PB28 PB36 PW4) Cobalt Blue, Cerulean Blue/Chromium, Zinc White

A deep, luscious, grape-juicy reddish-violet. The masstone is dark and intense, shifting in tints toward a rich red violet with a brownish-purple cast. Because of its relative neutrality, it’s a natural-looking choice for portrait, landscape or botanical work-imagine how good it looks with complementary greens. It also makes strong, interesting shadows.

• Series 3
• Lightfastness Rating: Excellent
• Transparency: Transparent
• Granulating: No
• Staining: Medium
• (PV29) Perylene Violet

Experience a saturated yellow with a rich history, you’ll love its transparency and smooth working properties. A natural looking yellow with a very slight green-brown cast – great for foliage highlights! This stunning watercolour revives the bold colour used by the ancient Mayan people to adorn their murals and sculpture. Now using an eco-friendly process, with methods derived directly from the ancient Mayans, this unique, metal-free pigment is available to you. Its versatility, durability and exquisite hue will make it a colour you’ll reach for again and again.

• Series 3
• Lightfastness Rating: Very Good
• Transparency: Transparent
• Granulating: No
• Staining: No
• (PY223) Hybrid Inorganic/Organic Pigment

Mayan Orange is hot and intense. Use it straight from the tube for a blazing red-orange. As you add water, the colour remains strong and disperses very evenly. Rich, bold colours adorned the murals and sculpture of the Mayan people. Even when exposed to centuries of severe heat and humidity, these colours have hardly faded over a thousand years. Now, using methods derived from ancient Mayan chemistry, these unique, metal-free pigments have been recreated using an eco-friendly process. The colours are smooth, non-granulating and semi-transparent. Their versatility, durability and exquisite hues make them colours you’ll reach for again and again.

• Series 3
• Lightfastness Rating: Very Good
• Transparency: Transparent
• Granulating: No
• Staining: Low
• (PO N/A)

Cadmium Yellow Deep Hue – A rich, warm yellow with a golden glow.

• Series 3
• Lightfastness Rating: Excellent
• Transparency: Semi-Opaque
• Granulating: No
• Staining: Low
• ( PY53 PY83) Nickel Titante Yellow, Diarylide Yellow

A beautiful earthy colour, Burnt Sienna Light is redder than our Burnt Sienna, more transparent and slightly less granulating. In very light washes, it makes a good, light flesh tone for portraits, and in darker washes, it is a rich red-brown.

• Series 1
• Lightfastness Rating: Excellent
• Transparency: Transparent
• Granulating: No
• Staining: No
• ( PR101, PO48) Transparent Red Oxide, Quinacridone Gold

DANIEL SMITH Lavender is a beautiful periwinkle blue, and quite different from our other blues. This semi-transparent lavender blue has beautiful granulation, and lifts easily. In addition to being an excellent floral colour, our Lavender suggests certain shades of faded denim.

• Series 2
• Lightfastness Rating: Excellent
• Transparency: Semi-Transparent
• Granulating: No
• Staining: Low
• ( PW6, PV15, PB29) Titanium White, Ultramarine Violet, Ultramarine Blue