A J Ludlow Quinacridone Magenta Professional Watercolour

Quinacridone Magenta is just one of the bright and exquisite Professional Watercolours from A J Ludlow. Being based on a single pigment with excellent permanence and light fastness, ensures that this watercolour’s properties are exceptional. As with all our fine-art materials, Quinacridone Magenta watercolour is lovingly handmade in the UK by a skilled artisan from the best ingredients and finest pigments.

Quinacridone Magenta 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 Quinacridone Magenta 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 a synthetic red-shade violet organic complex, from the quinacridone-type class of light stable and high-performance pigments. This pigment has been selected for its bright and intense colour, high tinctorial strength, excellent light fastness and transparency. It therefore affords 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 Quinacridone Magenta Professional Watercolour*.

The Quinacridone Magenta 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.

Quinacridone Magenta is one of the few watercolours in the A J Ludlow Professional Watercolour range based on organic pigments and so is best used sparingly when initially mixing with other colours due to its high tinctorial strength. With respect to colour “temperature”, Quinacridone Magenta can be used on the artist’s palette as a cool red to create attractive purples when mixed with Ultramarine Blue and Cobalt Blue and beautiful oranges with Cadmium Lemon Yellow.

Pigment Details: Beta (β) -Quinacridone / Colour Index Pigment Violet 19 ( C.I. PV19)

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).