ART SUPPLIES WORTH STASHING.
One raccoon. Very good taste.
Supplies
Taking a look on the shelf…
FIELD NOTES / MEET YOUR SUPPLY SCOUT
A collector.
Not a gatekeeper.
Snag has a nose for art supplies and no use for pretend bargains. He scouts out the materials you want, with a notebook that tells you what we actually know.
Rummage the shelf
THE SCOUT’S CODE
Small paws.
Clear ground rules.
- 01
Keep the source.
Real retailer listings. Exact products and variants. A missing price stays missing.
- 02
Show the evidence.
Undated imports are catalog snapshots, not live prices. Dated history begins with a successful retailer check.
- 03
Never invent the drop.
One checked price is one observation, not a trend. Undated snapshots never become price drops or target alerts.
Your ArtSnag account
Snag’s Finds
Tools, color and paper, gathered by the way you like to make. Editorial selections, not a discount ranking.
Amsterdam Standard Series Acrylic - Brilliant Blue, 500 ml bottle
Acrylic
Recorded retailer price · not live
$24.34
Blick Art Materials · recorded 2026-10-21T11:00:55.851658000Z
Price tracking and alerts are coming soon. Saving an item does not start monitoring.
Product details
- Size
- 500 ml
- Blick SKU
- 00643-5060
About this product range
- Bold, versatile acrylics for artists at any level
- 102 modern and traditional colors
- High-grade pigments and 100% acrylic emulsion
- Balanced body retains subtle texture
- Excellent lightfastness and long-term durability
Amsterdam Standard Series Acrylics combine brilliant color, great handling, and exceptional flexibility for artists at any stage, from students and hobbyists to seasoned pros. Available in 102 colors, including both modern and traditional pigments, you’ll find a wide range of opacities—perfect for layering, glazing, and precise color control.
These medium-viscosity paints offer an easy, consistent flow straight from the tube. Their smooth, full bodied texture holds expressive brushwork and subtle textures beautifully. Use them on their own or extend their versatility with your favorite acrylic mediums. Known for excellent lightfastness and durability, these paints are built to perform across all painting styles and techniques, from fine art to murals, illustration, and mixed media.
Proudly made in the Netherlands.
Pigment information
General reference notes about pigments can describe other media (such as oil). They do not verify this product’s exact formulation or behavior.
Phthalo Blue
- Pigment code
- PB15
- Type
- organic
- Chemical name
- copper phthalocyanine
- Chemical formula
- C32H16CuN8
- Properties
- Phthalo Blues are pure and clean primary blues with superior covering power. They have a very high tinting strength and tend to overwhelm other pigments, but if color strength can be controlled, they make predictable mixed colors. In oil form, blues are very deep and slow drying. When mixed with other colors or if chlorine is added, Phthalo Blue quickly tends towards green. When using alone, mix with some white, as Phthalo Blue can be semi-transparent and almost black on its own. It is among the most compatible of modern colors with mineral colors and is considered more reliable than Prussian Blue, while sharing the same physical and color properties. Phthalo Blue is a good color for glazing.
- Permanence
- Phthalo Blues are completely lightfast and stable and are permanent for all paint uses. They are currently used in inks, coatings, and many plastics due to their stability and are considered a standard pigment in printing ink and the packaging industry.
- Toxicity
- Phthalo Blues have no significant hazards, although those made before 1982 contained some PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls).
- History
- Developed by chemists using the trade name Monastral Blue, the organic blue dyestuff now known as Phthalo Blue was presented as a pigment in November 1935 in London. Its discovery was accidental. The dark color was observed in a kettle where a dye was being made from a British dyestuff plant. The demand for such a pigment came from commercial printers who wanted a cyan to replace Prussian Blue.
- Description
- Bocour Blue, Cyan Blue, Helio Blue, Heliogen Blue, Intense Blue, Monastral Blue, Phthalocyanine Blue, Rembrandt Blue, Thalo Blue, Winsor Blue, Phthalo Blue (RS).
Phthalo Green
- Pigment code
- PG7
- Type
- organic
- Chemical name
- polychlorinated copper(II) phthalocyanine
- Chemical formula
- C32H3Cl13CuN8 to C32HCl15CuN8 or C32H16CuN8Cl15 (PG7) or C32Br6Cl10CuN8 (PG36)
- Properties
- Phthalo Green is a transparent, cool, bright, high intensity color used in oil and acrylics. It comes from a Phthalocyanine Blue pigment where most of the hydrogen atoms have been replaced with chlorine, forming highly stable molecules. It has similar pigment properties and permanence to Phthalo Blue. It is slow drying and an excellent base color for mixing a range of bright greens. Phthalo Green is considered a very good alternative to Viridian because it is intense and mixes well and can be used to emphasize mineral colors in various tints. However, its tinting strength is very high, so it can overpower other colors. This pigment most closely resembles the discontinued and toxic Verdigris.
- Permanence
- Phthalo Greens are completely lightfast and resistant to alkali, acids, solvents, heat, and ultraviolet radiation. They are currently used in inks, coatings, and many plastics due to their stability and are considered a standard pigment in printing ink and the packaging industry.
- Description
- Bocour Green, Cyan Green, Intense Green, Monastral Green, Phthalocyanine Green BS, Rembrandt Green, Thalo Green, Winsor Green.
Titanium White
- Pigment code
- PW6
- Type
- inorganic
- Chemical name
- titanium dioxide
- Chemical formula
- TiO2
- Properties
- Titanium White is the most brilliant of the white pigments. It is considered an all purpose oil color useful in all techniques and the best all around white. Its masstone is neither warm nor cool, placing it somewhere between Lead White and Zinc White. It is less prone to cracking and yellowing than Lead White, but it still yellows easily. Titanium White dries slowly in oil form, more slowly than Lead White but more quickly than Zinc White. It is opaque in oil and acrylic forms and semi-opaque in watercolor form. This pigment has good chemical stability, and its tinting strength is superior to both Lead White and Zinc White.
- Permanence
- Titanium White has excellent permanence and lightfastness.
- Toxicity
- Titanium dioxide is highly stable and is regarded as non-toxic.
- History
- Titanium is the ninth most abundant element in the Earth's crust, however mineral deposits that are economical to mine are less common. Titanium dioxide was first discovered in 1821, although it could not be mass produced until 1919. Widespread use of the pigment began in the 1940s. Since that time, it has become the most commonly used white pigment. The name comes from the Latin word Titan, the name for the elder brother of Kronos and ancestor of the Titans, and from the Greek word tito, meaning day or sun.
Related supplies
- Amsterdam Standard Series Acrylic - Brilliant Blue, 20 ml Tube
- Amsterdam Standard Series Acrylic - Brilliant Blue, 120 ml Tube
- Amsterdam Standard Series Acrylic - Sky Blue Light, 500 ml, Bottle
- Amsterdam Standard Series Acrylic - Sky Blue Light, 20 ml Tube
- Amsterdam Standard Series Acrylic - Sky Blue Light, 120 ml Tube
- Amsterdam Standard Series Acrylic - Turquoise Blue, 20 ml Tube
- Amsterdam Standard Series Acrylic - Turquoise Blue, 120 ml
- Amsterdam Standard Series Acrylic - Phthalo Blue, 500 ml bottle
- Amsterdam Standard Series Acrylic - Phthalo Blue, 20 ml Tube
- Amsterdam Standard Series Acrylic - Phthalo Blue, 120 ml Tube
- Amsterdam Standard Series Acrylic - Cobalt Blue Ultramarine, 500 ml bottle
- Amsterdam Standard Series Acrylic - Cobalt Blue Ultramarine, 20 ml Tube