Winsor & Newton Artists’ Watercolor

Artists’ Water Color continues to be formulated and manufactured according to Winsor & Newton’s founding principles; to create an unparalleled water color range which offers artists the widest and most balanced choice of pigments with the greatest possible permanence.

Each color within this wide and balanced spectrum of 96 colors, has been selected and formulated to offer the greatest choice so that artists can use a unique palette that best suits their work.

Both Artists’ Water Color tube and pan colors are made individually to the highest standards. Pan color is often used by beginners because it can be less inhibiting and easier to control the strength of color.

Tube color is more popular overall, used by regular users, those who use high volumes of color or stronger washes of color. Many painters have both, as pan colors are useful when traveling and sketching. Of course, artists can use both tube and pan together if they wish.

Winsor & Newton Cotman Watercolor

Cotman Water Colors are a range of water colors that are made to our normal high quality standards but costs are kept to an economical level by replacing some of the more costly pigments with less expensive alternatives.

The range consists of 50 colors in tubes, which possess good transparency, excellent tinting strength and good working properties, including genuine cadmiums and cobalt. There are also a number of excellent water color sets available in the Cotman range.

Costs are kept to an economical level by replacing some of the more costly pigments with less expensive alternatives. Pigments derive from a number of sources: Some are natural products, notably the earths, eg. umbers, ochres; others come from metal compounds and are sometimes termed ‘traditional’ or ‘genuine’, eg. ultramarine.