Description

Gouache set of 6 colours in ready-to-use glass bottles. This set contains the essential colours for mixing, whether you are learning about colours for the first time, or ready to mix your own custom colours. The bottles come in a sturdy cardboard box with convenient colour swatches.

Talens Gouache Extra Fine is a highly pigmented paint with a matt finish. Although gouache is popular amongst artists and designers for its intense and opaque colours, they can be made slightly more transparent by adding water. Gouache is made with a high concentration of high-quality pigments and based on dextrin, which gives the paint a smooth consistency and reduces surface gloss.

Use gouache to create even, matt colour blocks without visible brush strokes. Mix the colours with water to thin, mix and create smooth colour transitions. Gouache is not waterproof when dry, which means you can still rework the colours with water after they have dried.

“Dextrin is a starch product that is dissolved in water to form a liquid binder. As this product is sensitive to decay it is necessary to add a preservative. Dextrin is the binder of Talens Gouache extra fine and of the other quality poster paints. A special property of a dextrin solution is thixotropy. If we leave the paint alone it will automatically thicken. Through movement (stirring or painting) the paint becomes thinner again and will easily spread out.”

Available sets:

Mixing Set of 5 x 20ml

Colours: White (100), Lemon Yellow (Primary) (205), Permanent Rose (Magenta) (397), Light Blue (Cyan) (501), Black Intenso (703) + colour mixing guide.

Mixing Set of 8 x 20ml

Colours: White (100), Yellow (200), Lemon Yellow (Primary) (205), Vermilion (311), Permanent Rose (Magenta) (397), Light Blue (Cyan) (501), Ultramarine Deep (506), Black Intenso (703).