A J Ludlow Royal Blue Professional Watercolour

Royal Blue 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, Royal Blue watercolour is lovingly handmade in the UK by a skilled artisan from the best ingredients and finest pigments.

Royal Blue 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 Royal Blue 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 pigments. The pigments have been selected for their purity, high tinctorial strength, exceptional light fastness. Royal Blue is a transparent watercolour, as can be seen in figure 1a below.

Figure 1: Assessment of (a) the opacity/transparency and (b) staining power of A J Ludlow Royal Blue Professional Watercolour*.

The staining power of Royal Blue is on the low side and so the watercolour is easily lifted out (see figure 1b above).

This watercolour has a fluid consistency and is easily transferred to the watercolour palette using a clean spatula or palette knife. When painted out, Royal Blue watercolour naturally granulates, creating interesting texture in the painting. The watercolour’s hue is quite unique and offers the Artist a soft violet-blue.

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).