Aquarell colour HORADAM 15 ml Signature Edition 2026 - Lavender
Product code: 711406-049
Schmincke HORADAM Aquarell Signature Edition 2026 (15 ml Tube) – Professional Limited Edition Watercolor
Schmincke HORADAM Aquarell Signature Edition 2026 is an exclusive, limited-edition artist-quality 15 ml tube watercolor. This special series seamlessly blends Schmincke’s century-old traditions with the creative vision of world-renowned watercolorists. The collection features unique signature and custom shades developed specifically for this release, offering artists rare visual effects, ultimate lightfastness, and inspiring color-mixing possibilities.
In this exclusive 2026 collection, each shade is available individually as a 15 ml tube. This packaging ensures maximum freshness, effortless dispensing, and excellent flow properties when covering large surface areas.
Features and Technical Excellence:
Exceptional Pigmentation and High Lightfastness: Formulated using only the purest, rigorously tested artists' pigments. These shades retain their original brilliance and depth for decades, fulfilling the highest lightfastness ratings (4* and 5* stars).
Kordofani Gum Arabic Binder: Sourced from the southern Sahara region, this premium natural binder ensures a consistent, fully controllable paint flow on paper. It allows dried paint on your palette to be easily reactivated with a wet brush.
Optimal Tube Consistency: The 15 ml tube paint is immediately ready for use straight onto the palette or for working directly into wet-on-wet fields. It resists drying out inside the tube while maintaining its completely homogeneous structure.
Made in Germany: Every single tube is manufactured at the Schmincke facility in Germany based on traditional recipes, undergoing strict quality control steps.
Lavender (Lavendel - Limited Edition): A delicate, dreamy, and subtly pastel lavender purple. It serves as an exceptional choice for rendering atmospheric shadows, botanical details, and romantic illustrative moods.
Usage:
Schmincke HORADAM 15 ml tube watercolors are engineered for both discerning professionals and dedicated hobbyists. Thanks to the high-capacity tube and superior solubility, this paint is perfect for:Large-Scale Watercolor Paintings: Where you need to quickly lay down uniform washes or smooth gradients across expansive areas.
Wet-on-Wet Technique: Allowing pigments to mingle vibrantly and travel freely across heavy cotton watercolor sheets.
Filling Your Custom Palettes: The paint can be squeezed directly into empty half or full pans. Once dry, it behaves exactly like factory-poured pan colors.
Highly Detailed Botanical or Illustrative Art.
Product Advantages:
Exclusivity and Originality: These tones do not belong to Schmincke's standard 140-color foundational assortment. They are custom formulations that expand your creative boundaries.
Maximum Cost Efficiency: A 15 ml tube contains roughly three times more paint than a standard full pan, making it the most economical choice by volume for long-term studio work.
Clean and Vibrant Intermixing: Thanks to the high-grade natural base and extreme pigment purity, color mixes do not turn "muddy" when combined with other shades.
Total Flow Control: The way the paint disperses on wet paper remains highly predictable, allowing for ultra-fine detail work as well as broad, expressive brushstrokes.
Product Disadvantages:
Strictly Limited Availability: As a part of the 2026 Signature/Limited series, these specific tubes are manufactured in limited batches. Once factory and retailer stocks run dry, this product will not be reproduced.
Premium Price Point: Being a flagship professional Horadam series tube color, the upfront cost is significantly higher than student-grade lines like Akademie or introductory school paints.
Paper Dependent: The unique characteristics, delicate transparency, and specific blending nuances of these paints require high-quality (ideally 100% cotton) watercolor paper to fully shine
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