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The Artist Who Paints With Blood
Watch the video to learn how artist of the year Imran Qureshi creates blood effects with Winsor & Newton Perlyene Maroon red water colour.
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Five Must-Have Water Colour Plein Air Materials
We’ve picked our five must-have materials for plein air water colour artists, each of which will enrich your creative endeavours and make the transition between environments a smooth one. Learn more about our favourites!...
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Spotlight on Colour: Rose Madder
Rose Madder is a distinctive rose coloured pigment made from the roots of the common madder plant, Rubia tinctorum. It is a transparent pigment wit...
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The History and Production of Rose Madder Pigments
One of our proudest achievements at Winsor & Newton is the way in which we have maintained our distinctive Rose Madder shade through the ages. Alth...
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Building on Tradition: Watercolour Where You Least Expect It
It makes perfect sense then that watercolour would be a medium associated with experimentation and creative exploration. We have had a look back th...
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Type 1 Zealotry: how one artist curated an entire exhibition with only Winsor & Newton, Liquitex, and Conté à Paris materials
In his latest exhibition at Cock ‘n’ Bull Gallery, London, artist and curator Zavier Ellis has exclusively used Winsor & Newton, Liquitex and Conté...
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Spotlight on Indigo
A complex blue, Indigo can range from inky black to soft pale blue. Favoured by water colourists, Indigo appears as a strong opaque colour, complet...
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Spotlight on Sienna
A yellow-brown colour, Sienna is part of a group collectively known as earth colours*. Shades of Sienna vary in hue and have different names depend...
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Spotlight on Terre Verte
Although derived from a mineral source, Terre Verte is not a natural iron oxide pigment, but an iron silicate with clay. Originally a natural earth...
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Techniques and Materials in Abstract Painting
The first truly abstract paintings were developed by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in Paris between 1912 and 1914. Called Cubism, it was a new w...
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Spotlight on Cadmium Red
Think of the colour red and most likely you will find yourself thinking of the big emotions and that is why artists like it so much. Red is an extr...
