A J Ludlow Hooker's Green Professional Watercolour

Hooker's Green 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, Hooker's Green watercolour is lovingly handmade in the UK by a skilled artisan from the best ingredients and finest pigments.

Hooker's Green 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 Hooker's Green 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 two synthetic organic pigments. The pigments have been selected for their purity, high tinctorial strength, exceptional transparency, light fastness and they match the traditional yellow-shade green colour of "Hooker's Green No1". They afford a transparent watercolour (as can be seen in the figure 1a below).

Figure 1: Assessment of (a) the opacity/transparency and (b) staining power of A J Ludlow Hooker's Green Professional Watercolour*.

The Hooker's Green watercolour does not lift out completely (as can be seen in figure 1b above) and so has a propensity to stain the watercolour paper.

This watercolour has a structured consistency, but is easily transferred from the jar to the watercolour palette using a clean spatula or palette knife. As with all the Professional Watercolours from A J Ludlow, once water is added, this watercolour has excellent flow and is a joy to paint with.

Attention to detail in matching this watercolour's hue to the traditional Hooker's Green No1 as described by Salter (1869) as "a grass green, in which the yellow predominates” and detailed in “A Descriptive Handbook of Modern Water Colour Pigments” by J Scott Taylor (1887).

In the A J Ludlow Hooker's Green Professional Watercolour, the pigments used are pure and the tinctorial strength is very strong and so is best used sparingly when initially mixing with other colours.

Pigment Details: Mixed

Reference

Salter, TW, “FIELD'S CHROMATOGRAPHY; OR TREATISE ON COLOURS AND PIGMENTS AS USED BY ARTISTS. AN ENTIRELY NEW AND PRACTICAL EDITION; REVISED, REWRITTEN, AND BROUGHT DOWN TO THE PRESENT TIME. SALTER'S EDITION”, Winsor and Newton, London, 1869

Scott Taylor J, “A Descriptive Handbook of Modern Water Colour Pigments”, Winsor and Newton, London, 1887

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).