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Winsor & Newton NOTES ON THE COMPOSITION & PERMANENCE of Artists Colours Booklet COLLECTORS ITEM

Winsor & Newton NOTES ON THE COMPOSITION & PERMANENCE of Artists Colours Booklet COLLECTORS ITEM

  • £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.

  • Soft Cover
  • 25 pages
  • Published by Winsor & Newton 1997
  • Approx. 210 x 144 mm