For the past 100 years Holbein color laboratories have developed, produced and reformulated, as necessary , its moist transparent watercolor, always to produce industry leadership in brush handling qualities, ligh fastness and physical permanence. Pure pigment in gum arabic that offers clean, crisp, reliable results without darkening or muddiness. Before transparent watercolor, gouache or tempera color was used from the Middle Ages to the renaissance as the favoured medium of the great masters of the time. Capable of being thinned to semi-transparency with water or used in dense opaque layers to build surface body, Holbein Gouache offers great versitilty to the fine artist and designer and is an unparallelled tool for teaching color theory. Blending perfectly with transparent watercolors, gouache may be used to great effect in highlighting.
Every color provides smooth, even, easily controlled washes and retains moistness for easy dilution.
Brilliant, luminous washes enhance the radiance of the paper. High pigment loads combined with balanced formulations provide artists' with a complete range of applications from delicate, glowing tints through deep, dramatic passages. Just recently it has become available to the western world. It was an immense success in England the home of watercolor and it has experienced record sales all over the world. For years only tube watercolors sold in the U.S.A. Change is coming.