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From GreatArt's online magazine
Jo York working with Jaxon watercolours.
“I’ve been using an Aquarell set consisting of 48 half pans, which gives an excellent colour range including metallics and whites, and you also get two really good sized open-out palettes for mixing. They come in a black metal tin which is tough enough to cope with many days spent in muddy fields, but compact enough to fit in the bag I carry all my stuff around in.
I should say that I’m fussy about watercolours, well about all materials actually…but watercolours can be incredibly disappointing and frustrating if they don’t deliver a really good pigment load. These are terrific, and offer great quality pigments, and good value too.
The colours are notably intense, and they handle well too, both with very little dilution and also when made into really wet washes.
You can also tell that Aquarell have been produced with high quality Gum Arabic binders, as they flow beautifully. When you use them ‘just slaked’ with little water you get that intense luminous effect, which you really want to achieve with watercolours.
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