"Each material has special qualities, no less important than its beneficial properties. They are encased in the ability of material to influence our feelings. Without the mediation of the artist, without the miracle of art, this ability is inactive and does not give any results " by A. Van de Walde.
This is a unique production, keeping the core of traditions, but improving recipes and methods of production in accordance with time requirements and carefully tested innovative developments. This knowledge and experience have been continuously supplemented and transmitted from generation to generation of experts for almost a century, determining the consistently high quality of paints.
Watercolours WHITE NIGHTS is a series of professional premium artists' watercolour paints with an age-old history. The series was born to the request of the professional art community for the development of watercolour, which has rich, clean and deep shades and can remain unchanged for many decades. So, in the early 30s of the 20th century, the legendary watercolour paints LENINGRAD were produced, which were subsequently renamed WHITE NIGHTS.
COLOUR SERIES.
To date, the range consists of 134 colours, revealing a wide range of shades that meet the high requirements and quality of professional watercolour:
- Maximum content of high-quality fine pigments on a natural gum arabic binder. Each batch of initial ingredients through preliminary mandatory studies for compliance with standards.
- Paints are available in pans of 2.5 ml and in tubes of 10 ml. Watercolour in pans is semi-dry, does not require soaking before work, the colour is easily taken on the brush immediately after opening the package. The protective membrane of foil on the tube's neck ensures the complete preservation of colour. The paint dried on the palette is re-diluted with water.
All paints in this series consist of two to three pigments that have different particle sizes and specific gravity. These colours fascinate by the movement of pigments in water. Most interestingly they show their extraordinary character in wet work, when a large amount of water on the sheet allows pigment particles to move unhindered. The effects of pigment lamination appear some time after the application of strokes and are best seen in dried work. In the paints there are included also special additives that stabilize the movement of pigment particles in the mixtures. The granulating paints have noble complex colours and will enrich classical painting with the original effects of granulation and lamination of pigments, inspire the creation of abstract compositions with unusual technical solutions. The nature of the effects for granulating serie significantly depends on the type of paper: the use of watercolour paper with a pronounced texture (Fin and Torchon) will increase the granulation effect.
Classical colours are traditional shades carefully selected in accordance with the request of the academic school of watercolour painting.
Pastel colours are delicate saturated shades of basic colours created to convey the finest nuances, air shades and transitions. The series is developed with the addition of titanium white.
The colours of the series are selected for the main natural metal shades for illustrations and paintings. They are mixed perfectly and are easily taken to the brush, preserving all the qualities of watercoulor artists' paints.
NEW!!! WHITE NIGHTS EXTRA FINE ARTISTS’ WATERCOLOURS. GRANULATING COLOURS:
Yellow Tuff
Orange Mist
Scarlet Mist
Ruby Mist
Rose Mist
Hematite Mist
Violet Mist
Violet Shadows
Lilac Mist
Turquoise-Rose Mist
Cobalt Mist
Blue Shadows
Dark Blue Shadows
Sky Blue Shadows
Blue Mist
Aquamarine Mist
Green Mist
Yellowish Green Mist
Green Shadows
Taiga Mist
Chromium-Cobalt Mist
Red Brown Hematite
Augite Porphyrite
Grey-violet Granite
Grey-pink Mist
Grey-blue Mist
WHITE NIGHTS EXTRA FINE ARTISTS’ WATERCOLOURS. CLASSIC COLOURS:
Zink White
Titanium White
Lemon
Cadmium Lemon
Aureolin
Yellow
Cadmium Yellow Medium
Naples Yellow
Indian Yellow
Ochre Light
Yellow Ochre
Yellow Iron Oxide
NAPLES YELLOW LIGHT
INDIAN GOLD
NAPLES ORANGE
GOLDEN
GOLDEN DEEP
CADMIUM ORANGE
ORANGE
