A J Ludlow Titanium Orange Professional Watercolour

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

Titanium Orange 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 Titanium Orange 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 the mixed metal oxide inorganic pigment, containing zinc, tin and titanium oxides, which gives the watercolour its bright and clean red-shade orange colour and opacity. It therefore affords an opaque watercolour, which is semi-opaque in thin washes (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 Titanium Orange Professional Watercolour*.

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

The pigment used in this watercolour is relatively heavy and so Titanium Orange Professional Watercolour has a natural tendency to settle on standing. If settlement occurs, just stir the watercolour gently in the jar with a clean palette knife until the watercolour is fully homogeneous again.

Titanium Orange is a bright and intense Professional Watercolour with excellent tinctorial strength, keeping its strong, vibrant colour when applied in diluted washes.It easily granulates on rough watercolour paper and can be used on the artist’s palette as a red-shade orange.

Pigment Details: Rutile-Tin-Zinc Complex / Colour Index Pigment Yellow 216 ( C.I. PY216)

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).