Winsor & Newton Professional Watercolor - Mars Black, 14 ml Tube
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Product details
- Size
- 14 ml
- Blick SKU
- 00319-2042
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.
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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.
Mars Black
- Pigment code
- PBk11
- Type
- earth
- Chemical name
- iron oxides
- Chemical formula
- FeO or Fe2O3
- Properties
- Mars Black is an opaque black with a strong and cool masstone, a slightly warm tint, and a warm brown undertone. It is not as black as Ivory Black, but it dries more quickly and has three times the tinting strength. Mars Black is normally the only black available in acrylic form and that is safe to over paint. It can be used in all media without reservation and is widely used as an alternative to Lamp Black and Ivory Black.
- Permanence
- Mars Black is very lightfast with excellent permanence.
- Toxicity
- Mars Black has no significant hazards and is the only major black pigment considered non-toxic.
- History
- The word Mars refers to the Roman god of iron and war. Mars Black was developed in the early 20th century from inorganic, synthetic iron oxide.
- Description
- Black Iron Oxide, Iron Black, Magnetic Oxide, Mapico Black, Mineral Black. Sometimes labeled as Vine Black.
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