Winsor & Newton Cotman Watercolours Set
Cotman Watercolours offer a selection of good-quality watercolours for the beginner or intermediate artist or student. The Cotman line includes both traditional pigments & reliable synthetic colours that replace some of the rare & more expensive pigments used in Professional Watercolours
Accessible but uncompromising on quality with an excellent tinting strengthPRODUCT INFORMATION
Winsor & Newton Cotman Watercolours Set Half Pans & Whole Pans
Winsor & Newton Cotman Water Colours are a range of watercolours made to our high-quality standards. Still, costs are kept to an economic 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 earth, eg. umbers, and ochres; others come from metal compounds and are sometimes termed 'traditional' or 'genuine', eg. ultramarine.
The distillation of petroleum yields an ever-widening range of organic pigments which are often termed 'modern'. Many of the pigments used in Cotman are organic.
Cotman Water Colours possess good transparency, excellent tinting strength and good working properties.
All the colours mix cleanly and are easy to manipulate with a brush or sponge.
- Fine Art Pigments - Cotman Watercolours uses fine art pigments with a reduced pigment load than the Professional Watercolour range, making them an accessible choice while still uncompromising on quality.
- Ideal Transparency - Formulated to create uniform consistency, the transparent quality of Cotman Watercolours is perfect for new users.
- Lightfast and Permanent - Rated AA and A for Excellent and Good lightfastness, Cotman Watercolour gives artists the reassurance expected from a quality watercolour range.
- Colour Range - The Cotman Water Colour range has a more uniform consistency than the Professional Water Colour range and these benefits beginners as there is less to learn about each individual pigment. The Cotman Water Colour range also relates to the Winsor & Newton Professional Water Colour range, e.g. Burnt Sienna in both ranges has the same hue. This enables artists to use colours from both ranges with minimal adjustment to their technique.
- White in the Range - Traditionally the white of the paper provides the brilliance to watercolour and can be used as highlights. However, some artists utilize Chinese White for highlights at the end of their paintings or in dulling some colour mixtures down.
Features
- High-quality student-grade watercolours
- Excellent tinting strength
- Affordable but uncompromising in quality
- Easy to work with
- Good transparency
- Imported from England
Perfect For
- Students and beginners
- Painting watercolour washes
- Gradient effects
- Basic and advanced colour mixing
- Creating long-lasting works of art
- Artists of all skill levels