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Schmincke HORADAM Naturals Plant Pigment Set (5 x 15ml)

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  • Size: 15ml
  • Colours: 5*
  • 100% vegan watercolours
  • Set includes 5 unique colours
  • Made using plant resins/extracts
  • Highly lightfast with a matt finish
  • Tougher & more controllable, similar to a gouache

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Developed & thoroughly tested for quality, stability, reliability & lightfastness, HORADAM Naturals are an eco-conscious & 100% vegan range of artist-quality watercolours.

Specially formulated using natural pigments, resins & extracts, their palette of 16 beautiful shades apply semi-transparent & dry to a smooth, attractive matt finish.

Sharing traits of both watercolour & gouache for a consistency unique to the HORADAM Naturals, it's highly recommended to experiment & familiarise yourself with the range first.

For instance, natural pigments are coarser in texture, which produces a rougher granulation effect more typical of a watercolour.
However, their more viscous consistency allows for additional control, comparable to gouache.

Some colours, such as Curcuma and Stil de Grain, have similar characteristics to watercolours & high glazing properties, offering a wide range of colours.
While Curcuma enables yellow to orange colour strokes, Stil de Grain has a yellow-green to greenish-brown colour.

Contents

  • Curcuma 250
  • Madder Lake 360
  • Indigofera 470
  • Dyers' Green 510
  • Stil de Grain 610

Please be aware, each colour may have a delicate fragrance & slight shade variations within different batches.
This is not a quality defect, but properties brought about through the use of naturally occurring pigments.

Reviews (2)

29/06/2024
4/5
Have swatched the colours but have not used in a painting yet, but they seem acceptable!
29/06/2024
1/5
I’m so glad Schmincke are making vegan products but this isn’t good. The binder is really terrible and they don’t disperse at all. 1/5 paints was okay. I saw enough reviews before buying saying similar but I thought I could make them work. Out of 15k art supplies I bought over the last decade this is the first thing I might just have to sell on. The paint whether wet on dry or wet on wet just sits still on the page in clumps of pigments. Whether very diluted or fairly neat. A real disappointment. And Schmincke know how to make vegan binder and dispersants that work. Their academie line is the best student range pint I’ve tried and disperses lovely. But they chose not to. These paints weren’t planned well enough to release as a product imo. Save your money.
› Comment from Cowling & Wilcox Ltd. the 17/06/2024

Thank you for taking the time to review us. I'm so sorry these new vegan products from Schmincke are disappointing. They're normally so reliable and produce such fantastic products. I'll feedback your comments right away. Kind regards, Guy. ** Update ** - I've now spoken to Schmincke's Product Development Team, as well as their Managing Director (yes, we have that good a relationship with them :-)) and they've fed back the following. I hope this helps and if you have any further questions, please don't hesitate to contact me directly at guy@cowlings.com. The Horadam Naturals are “a little bit different”, as they are vegan and natural watercolours with a special formulation between gouache and normal watercolour. It took us a long development and testing time as it is not easy to create colours based on natural pigments and resins and a vegan binder system that fulfil our requirements in terms of quality, stability, lightfastness and paintability. In the end we were convinced with the result and decided the branding “Horadam” , a sign for finest artists colours. The reaction from our customers and artists is very positive. Nevertheless, you must pay attention to some points concerning the application, as due to the binder and the pigments, the behaviour is a little bit different: Solubility and use: The requirement for a vegan and natural formulated watercolour brings with it properties that distinguish this paint from a pure watercolour or gouache paint. It therefore requires a certain amount of training and knowledge of the painting properties that characterize these paints: • The natural pigments are sometimes somewhat coarser in texture, which - in contrast to a gouache - results in a rougher, usually slightly granulating surface effect. • The consistency of the colours is more viscous (especially with Dyers´ green and Indigofera), so that the colours do not flow as easily as with a watercolour. This also makes the paint somewhat more controllable, comparable to a gouache paint. If you take advantage of these properties, you will be able to use the special features of the Naturals shades on their own or in combination with other aquarelle or gouache paints. Due to the different composition (no ox gall wetting agent, etc.), the solubility from the dried paint surface, from the palette or from the pan, is not identical to the usual HORADAM quality. This circumstance and the direct influence of the natural pigments also change the appearance of the application and the flow behaviour. We recommend to use more water then you are used to and to make pre-test/ train a little to get accustomed.