Winsor & Newton Professional Watercolor - Permanent Mauve, 14 ml Tube

Watercolor

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Product details
Size
14 ml
Blick SKU
00319-3872
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.

Manganese Violet

Pigment code
PV16
Type
inorganic
Chemical name
manganese ammonium pyrophosphate
Chemical formula
(NH4)2Mn2(P2O7)2 - Mn3(PO4)2 * 3H2O or H4O7P2H3NMn
Properties
Manganese Violet is a semi-transparent, bluish-violet pigment with a discrete opacity and low tinting strength. It is the reddest of the violets, and it covers and dries well in oil and tempera. It also performs well in pastel, encaustic, and watercolor. Manganese Violet is not well suited for fresco or acrylic painting. There can be significant differences in color across brands. It shares similar properties with bluish shades of Cobalt Violet.
Permanence
Manganese Violet has excellent permanence and lightfastness, and it is one of the most lightfast, balanced violets in watercolor form.
Toxicity
Manganese Violet is highly toxic if inhaled and moderately toxic if ingested.
History
This pigment was developed in 1868 by E. Leykauf to replace the more expensive Cobalt Violet. It was not offered as an artists’ pigment until 1890.
Description
Burgandy Violet, Mineral Violet, Nürnberg Violet, Permanent Violet.

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