A J Ludlow Highlight White Professional Watercolour

Highlight White is just one of the bright and exquisite Professional Watercolours from A J Ludlow. This Special Limited Edition watercolour has excellent permanence and light fastness, ensuring that this watercolour’s properties are exceptional. As with all our fine-art materials, Highlight White watercolour is lovingly handmade in the UK by a skilled artisan from the best ingredients and finest pigments.

Highlight White professional quality watercolour is supplied in a 15ml glass jar, because:

The watercolour’s wet mass tone can be seen through the walls of the jar;

The colour can be easily transferred from the jar to the palette with a palette knife.

But more importantly, there is no need for unnecessary additives or formulation changes to make processing in our colour manufacturing workshop easier, allowing the Highlight White watercolour made by A J Ludlow to be at the highest pigment concentration and the pigment’s unique properties to be uncompromised. Anything less would be at odds with the brilliance and performance demanded of a professional quality watercolour range.

This Professional Watercolour is prepared using several white pigments. The pigments have been selected for their purity, high tinctorial strength, exceptional light fastness and high opacity (as can be seen in figure 1 below).

Figure 1: Assessment of (a) the opacity/transparency of A J Ludlow Highlight White Professional Watercolour*.

This watercolour has a fluid consistency and is easily transferred to the watercolour palette using a clean spatula or palette knife. Highlight White can be used in gouache paintings as in the detail from the painting shown in figure 2. If required, its high opacity and smooth application allow it to be painted directly without dilution.

Figure 2: Detail from a Gouache painting of “Early morning flight, P17D Thunderbolt “No Guts – No Glory”, above the Cambridgeshire countryside in June 1944” by Andrew Ludlow, using the A J Ludlow Highlight White Professional Watercolour.

Pigment Details: Mixed

Footnote:

*Details of how each watercolour is tested are given in the May 2021 ARTicle “Testing and Assessing the Properties of Watercolours – Part 1 ” (see also Part 2 of the ARTicle, which was published in June 2021).