Winsor & Newton NOTES ON THE COMPOSITION & PERMANENCE of Artists Colours Booklet COLLECTORS ITEM
£500£5.00
1997 re-print of the popular W&N booklet, first published over 100 years ago, an indispensable resource for Artists.
These are old shop stock and the covers reflect the wear and tear of being sat on a shelf for over 20 years, but the insides are completely legible.
Published as a response to the 1881 independent investigation into the action of light on watercolours, containing information about all the latest pigments. The contents include:
Statement of Policy 1892
Addendum 1997
Permanence
Historical Notes on pigments and colours
Composition and permanence tables
Synonymous colour names
"We do not fear disclosure as we know it takes very much more than just chemical constituents to make Winsor & Newton products"
Both the booklet provides detailed tables for each medium which list for each colour: Code Colour Name Chemical Description Colour Index Generic Name (eg P Br7) and Colour Index No. Permanence rating / permanence series (by W&N) ASTM rating (this is the rating by ASTM) Characteristics eg transparency/opacity; granulating; staining; bleeding and binder used.
For products including Artists (now Professional) & Cotman watercolours and designers Gouache
Artists, Griffin Alkyd, Artisan and Winton Oil Colours
Finity Artists Acrylic Colour (now called Professional Acrylic)
Artists Soft Pastels & Oilbars, both of which no longer produced.
