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#99532000 - 16 Encaustic Art WAXES in the ARTSET |
| These 16 ARTSET colours have been chosen to give you a wide colour range for beginning your encaustic art. All the colours are intermixable so most hues can be approximated. White enables pastelisation, whilst clear enables the colours to be weakened - like adding water to water colours. |
click any colour for its properties & pigments
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08 Blue Green
Molten viscosity - regular
The STANDARD for 'regular' consistency. |
| Lightfast : 5 |
Transparency : Transparent |
| Pigments : Phtalocyanin green,
Phtalocyanin blue |
Description : This lovely strong blue green is a rich and beautiful colour. Popular in fantasy images.
Mixing good for fantasy mixes with dark blues and red violet - nice pastels. |
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12 Red Violet
Molten viscosity - regular |
| Lightfast : 5 |
Transparency : Transparent |
| Pigments : Chinacridon,
Dioaxin |
| Description : This lovely strong red violet is a rich & popular fantasy colour. Lightfast, brilliant red-violet tone. Mixing foxgloves, fantasy, purples of all shades. |
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13 Red Brown
Molten viscosity - thicker |
| Lightfast : 5 |
Transparency : Transparent |
| Pigments : Benzimidazolon,
Isoindolinon |
Description : A rich transparent reddish brown that glows with warm autumnal hues.
Mixing pastels, shades of brown - tertiary greens,etc. |
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14 Yellow Brown
Molten viscosity - regular |
| Lightfast : 5 |
Transparency : Semi Transparent |
| Pigments : Isoindolinon,
Dioaxin |
Description : This lovely warm reddish-yellow brown is a landscape favorite.
Mixing warm browns, landscape favorite. |
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16 White
Molten viscosity - thinner |
| Lightfast : 5 |
Transparency : Opaque |
| Pigments : Titanium dioxide |
Description : This brilliant lightfast white with highest opacity will make all other colours more pastel. It brings light into your work so you need lots!
Mixing make any colour pastel - skies, soft colours, etc. |
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25 Gold
Molten viscosity - thinner |
| Lightfast : 5 |
Transparency : Semi Opaque |
| Pigments : Iriodin gold pearl |
Description : Gold metallic adds interest [coated mica with metal oxide (iriodin)]. Brightest results are obtained by clean application with the stylus.
Mixing good base for fantasy hues with a metallic pearl effect |
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26 Silver
Molten viscosity - regular |
| Lightfast : 5 |
Transparency : Opaque |
| Pigments : Iriodin rutil silver |
Description : Silver adds sparkle to any image [coated mica with metal oxide (iriodin)]. Frost, night scenes on black card, etc. Brightest results are obtained by clean application with the stylus.
Mixing good base for fantasy hues with a metallic pearl effect. |
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27 Clear Wax Medium
Molten viscosity - thinner
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| Lightfast : 5 |
Transparency : Transparent |
| Pigments : no pigments - natural base wax colour |
Description : Plain encaustic wax medium is the slightly cloudy/clear unpigmented base wax for all the encaustic art wax block range.
* Use as the 'flow coating' for hot air work.
Mixing clear: use to dilute & thin any colour, especially effective with the more translucent ones. |
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37 Neon Pink
Molten viscosity - thinner |
| Lightfast : 3 |
Transparency : Transparent |
| Pigments : Neon Pink |
Description : Fantastic bright pink with vibrant luminosity. Excellent in fantasy images & for subtle highlighting use just a tiny bit!
Mixing other shades of pinks & purples, but has lower lightfastness than other types of pigments in the range. |
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39 Neon Yellow
Molten viscosity - thinner |
| Lightfast : 3 |
Transparency : Transparent |
| Pigments : Neon Yellow |
Description : A wonderful & powerful luminous yellow colour that punches out its light. Great in light for fantasy images, but must remain very subtle in use for natural works.
Mixing - lifts vibrancy but has lower lightfastness than either #05 Lemon or #44 Mid Yellow. |
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43 Bright Red Mixer
Molten viscosity - thicker |
| Lightfast : 5 |
Transparency :Semi Opaque |
| Pigments : Diketo-Pyrrolo-Pyrrol |
Description : Brilliant red tone – the brightest in this range. Great for flowers & stronger red situations.
Mixing is true with this colour e.g. Red+Yellow=Orange |
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44 Mid Yellow Mixer
Molten viscosity - thicker |
| Lightfast : 4 |
Transparency :Semi Opaque |
| Pigments : Disazokondensation |
Description : A very strong & pure yellow as defined in basic colour-theory. Best yellow in the range to 'hold its place' rather than merge with surrounding colours.
Mixing is true with this colour e.g. Yellow+Blue=Green |
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45 Sap Green Mixer
Molten viscosity - thicker |
| Lightfast : 4 |
Transparency : Semi Transparent |
| Pigments : Isoindolinon,
Indanthron |
Description : A highly transparent green that is natural in colour & ideal in landscape combinations. The thicker consistency is good for textural foliage for instance.
Mixing for shades of green or nature's tertiary colours. |
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46 Cyan Blue Mixer
Molten viscosity - thicker |
| Lightfast : 5 |
Transparency : Transparent |
| Pigments : Phtalocyanin blue |
Description : Wonderful & delicious to the eyes, this is close to cyan blue in colour-theory. Great in abstract & fantasy work too.
Mixing true to expectations of a accurate 'blue'. |
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47 Indigo Mixer
Molten viscosity - thicker |
| Lightfast : 5 |
Transparency :Semi Opaque |
| Pigments : Phtalocyanin blue,
Isoindolinon |
Description : A powerful colour for moody skies, for adding dark contrast without using black. Originally a shade from natural indigo, the lightfastness
is strengthened with synthetic pigments.
Mixing with browns for a blackish hue, with white for purple tinted clouds & so on. |
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48 Purple Mixer
Molten viscosity - thicker |
| Lightfast : 5 |
Transparency :Semi Opaque |
| Pigments : Dioazin |
Description : An especially pure and brilliant Purple which cannot be mixed from other pigments. Rich like an emperor's robe.
Mixing tints of purple pastels or other purple shades with reds or blues. |
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