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Winsor & Newton Professional Watercolor - Mineral Gray, 5 ml
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Blick Art Materials · recorded 2026-10-21T07:23:02.696962000Z
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Product details
- Size
- 5 ml
- Blick SKU
- 00319-2701
About this product range
- The trusted choice of professional watercolorists since 1832
- Expansive range of 100+ colors
- Majority single-pigment formulations for optimal mixing
- Lightfast, permanent, and tested for color strength
Winsor & Newton Professional Watercolor Tubes are renowned for their enduring quality and heritage dating back to 1832. Trusted by renowned artists like John Singer Sargent, these watercolors combine historical recipes with modern advancements in pigment technology. Powerful, luminous, and unparalleled in their clarity, an expansive range of over 100 colors allows artists to create a palette that best suits their work.
Individually crafted for optimal pigment dispersion, over half the range features single-pigment formulations for predictable and accurate color mixtures. Colors are thoroughly tested for lightfastness and tint strength to ensure your work remains vibrant over time. A range of granulating colors allows artists to achieve beautiful textures that can be maximized through mixing.
__Cadmium-Free__-Formulated by chemists and approved by artists, these new paints deliver the same cadmium color strength, vibrancy, transparency, and lightfastness you expect, but without the cadmium.
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.
Ultramarine [Blue]
- Pigment code
- PB29
- Type
- inorganic
- Chemical name
- complex silicate of sodium and aluminum with sulfur
- Chemical formula
- Na8-10Al6Si6O24S2-4 or Na6-8Al6Si6O24S2-4
- Properties
- Ultramarine is the standard warm blue, a brilliant blue pigment that has the most purple and least green in its undertone. It has a moderate to high tinting strength and a beautiful transparency. Synthetic Ultramarine is not as vivid a blue as natural Ultramarine. Ultramarine dries slowly in oil and tends to produce clean, though granular, washes in watercolor. French Ultramarine mixes well with Alizarin colors in oil and watercolor form to create a range of purples and violets. It can dull when mixed with white in acrylic form, but mixes well with other colors. The shade varies based on manufacturer. Considered a great color for glazes, it is not suitable for frescoing.
- Permanence
- Ultramarine has excellent permanence, although synthetic Ultramarine is not as permanent as natural Ultramarine. It may discolor if exposed to acid because of its sulfuric content.
- Toxicity
- Ultramarine has no significant hazards.
- History
- The name for this pigment comes from the Middle Latin ultra, meaning beyond, and mare, meaning sea, because it was imported from Asia to Europe by sea. It is a prominent component of lapis lazuli and was used on Asian temples starting in the 6th century. It was one of the most expensive pigments in 16th century Europe, worth twice its weight in gold, and so was used sparingly and when commissions were larger. Ultramarine is currently imitated by a process invented in France in 1826 by Jean Baptiste Guimet, making blue affordable to artists and extending the range of colors on their palettes.
- Description
- Artificial Ultramarine, French Blue, French Ultramarine, Gmelin's Blue, Guimet's Blue, Permanent Blue, Royal Blue, Synthetic Ultramarine. New Blue describes particular shades of Ultramarine. Armenian Blue and Lazuline Blue are names for genuine Lapiz Ultramarine. Sky Blue is a pale tone of Ultramarine.
Slate Gray
- Pigment code
- PBk19
- Type
- inorganic
- Chemical name
- hydrated aluminum silicate
- Properties
- Slate Gray is a semi-opaque, neutral gray pigment produced from powdered slate.
- Permanence
- Slate Gray is absolutely lightfast.
- Toxicity
- Hydrated aluminum silicate is not considered toxic, however pigment from natural sources may contain impurities.
- History
- Mineral sources of Slate Gray have been used as a colorant since prehistoric times.
- Description
- Powdered Slate.
Lithopone
- Pigment code
- PW5
- Type
- inorganic
- Chemical name
- coprecipitated zinc sulphide and barium sulphate
- Chemical formula
- Zn + BaSO4
- Properties
- Lithopone is a low tinting strength, semi-transparent white pigment that is often used as a filler or extender in other colors, or as the base for laked pigments.
- Permanence
- Lithopone is absolutely permanent and lightfast.
- Toxicity
- Lithopone is not toxic.
- History
- Lithopone was discovered by G.F. de Doubet in 1850. It was developed commercially in the 1870s as a substitute or supplement for lead carbonate, to overcome the many shortcomings of white lead pigment, including toxicity, poor weathering, and darkening in the presence of sulfur compounds. It is used most often in interior paints and enamels. Its use as a white pigment has been superceeded in many applications by titanium dioxide.
- Description
- Transparent White.
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