A J Ludlow Professional Watercolour Painting Set - The Vulcan Hotel

In collaboration with St Fagans National Museum of History, this A J Ludlow “All you need to paint..” Professional Watercolour painting set is based on the notorious Cardiff Public House, the Vulcan Hotel, which has recently been lovely re-built in the grounds of the museum. The Hotel itself, has been faithfully restored to how it looked in 1915, and is open to visitors, once again selling renowned Welsh beer and offering the weary customer a warm welcome and a place to relax. The museum is a great place to visit and details can be found at https://museum.wales/stfagans/

The set has been designed for everybody to enjoy painting in watercolour. It has been especially created to help you master the techniques of watercolour, while experiencing the joy of using top-notch fine-art materials. Then, after enjoying the creative experience we are sure this kit will give you, the paintings can be framed and, either given to someone special as a present or displayed in your home, where everyone can enjoy them.

Our “All you need to paint..” watercolour painting sets do contain all that’s needed to paint the two pencil drawn designs on Saunders Waterford 425gsm watercolour paper. By using Quinophthalone Yellow, Transparent Iron Oxide Red and Phthalocyanine Blue (Red Shade) Professional Watercolour and 2 of our finest Chinese brushes, a traditional sable hair painting brush and detailing brush, both designs can be expertly painted following our individual 12-step printed painting instructions. There are also video painting demonstrations for each design available on our YouTube channel, which can be reached via dedicated QR codes. If you are a bit of a “Maverick”, then there is scope for you to include your own choice of background, foreground or to add figures (see the July 2023 ARTicle )

Each painting has been designed to be painted with a limited palette of three colours, in order to introduce the concept of colour mixing and the various secondary and tertiary hues that can be created with the three single pigmented watercolours included (as can be seen in the chart below).

Figure 2: Chart showing the hues possible when mixing the three A J Ludlow Professional Watercolours, Quinophthalone Yellow, Transparent Iron Oxide Red and Phthalocyanine Blue (Red Shade) .

This kit contains:

One large and one small pencil drawn design on Saunders Waterford (425gsm) watercolour paper, made from 100% cotton fibres;

One Traditional Chinese Sable Hair Brush and one Little Red Hair Detailing Brush;

Three A J Ludlow Professional Watercolours in fully recyclable plastic pots – Quinophthalone Yellow, Transparent Iron Oxide Red and Phthalocyanine Blue (Red Shade);

Full set of instructions and printed colour mixing chart, showing secondary and tertiary hues that can be mixed using the three single pigmented professional quality watercolours.