K H's List: Art-manufacturers

• (1) the fundamentals of paint attributes
• examples of the business issues that affect paint quality and the marketing information
• doing your own lightfastness tests and paint tests.
• 86% of them single pigment paints
• darker valued than equivalent paints by Winsor
• The line has been revised recently, primarily by discontinuing a few costly or polluting pigments
• 72 colors, 72% of them single pigment paint
• In most cases the color appearance, pigment quality, lightfastness and handling characteristics rival the watercolors from Daniel Smith, M. Graham or Winsor & Newton.
• finely milled, buttery texture and dissolve quickly in water
• 70 colors, 80% of them single pigment paints
• thick, honeylike consistency
• synthetic organics
• dark, deep colors
• cadmiums, cobalts and earths are among the most opaque
• nickel azomethine,
• pyrrole orange, gold
• ochre, pyrrole red, indanthrone blue, cobalt

  • Specific colors to look into purchasing: Gold Ochre, Pyrrole Red, Indathrone Blue, Copper Azomethine (green gold), perylene maroon
• turquoise, copper azomethine
• perylene maroon and transparent iron oxides
• ightfastness of the M. Graham paints is excellent and accurate
• one of the most satisfactory brands of watercolor paints
• 168 colors, 57% of them single pigment paints.
• unique single pigment paints, mostly among the earth colors and synthetic organics
• absurdly expensive and contain as many as five pigments!

  • In general the brand tends to be over priced and full of multipigment paints that don't rank well in lightfastness + durability 
• vehicle is unusually dense,
• more ingredients, less lightfastness.
• uneven in quality
• paint documentation is excellent
• translucent orange

  • schmicke color that are 1 of a kind & reccommended: translucent orange: pyrrole orange PO71 
    permanent red: pyrazoloquinazolone scarlet PR251
• Winsor & Newton
• subsidiary of ColArt Americas, which also holds Liquitex)
• uality is now matched by Daniel Smith, M. Graham and Maimeri
• stain more than other brands
• quinacridone gold (PO49)

  • WN quadricone gold is no longer 1 ingrediant paint instead 3  (find another supplier of quadricone gold :: PO49)
• Winsor & Newton range is smaller than Daniel Smith's
• Overall
• pleasing and reliable product

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• admium Yellow Light Hue
• Cobalt Green
• Cobalt Teal Blue
• New Gamboge
• Nickel Azo Yellow
• Pyrrol Orange
• uinacridone Coral
• Quinacridone Gold
• Quinacridone Sienna
• Transparent Pyrrol Orange
• Ultramarine Blue

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• AVOID. PR3
• Substitutions
• pyrrole red (PR254), pyrrole scarlet (PR255)
• naphthol red (PR112),
• AVOID. PR9
• • The 5 subsitutes for alizeron crimson offered are: 
    1) Benzimida Carmine - PR 175
    2) Quinacridone Pyrrolidone - PRNA 
    3) Pyrrole Rubine - PR264
    4) Anthraquinone Red - PR177 * chemical cousin of alizarin 
    5) Quinacridone Violet - PV19 
• Modern chemistry has innovated several relatively lightfast replacements for traditional but fugitive crimson pigments. To understand these choices, you should approach the choice of substitutions as replacing the single alizarin crimson paint with either one, or two, lightfast alternatives.
• • Colors reccommended by site for subsitute of Alizerion - Perylene Maroon (for it's "dullness factor") and either quinacridone magenta or quinacridone rose 
• five pigment substitutions for alizarin crimson currently
• quinacridone magenta (PR122) or quinacridone rose (PV19)

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