A J Ludlow Seamair Green Professional Watercolour

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

Seamair 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 Seamair 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 pigments. The pigments have been selected for their purity, high tinctorial strength, exceptional light fastness. Seamair Green is an opaque watercolour, which is semi-opaque in thin washes, as can be seen in figure 1a below.

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

The staining power of Seamair 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 fluid consistency and is easily transferred to the watercolour palette using a clean spatula or palette knife. Seamair Green is a beautiful yellow shade green, its name derived from the Irish tongue, (meaning shamrock or young clover* and pronounced SHAM-ur ).

Pigment Details: Mixed

Footnote:

* Seamair óg means young clover, which is also known as shamrock.

*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).