Szmal aquarius watercolours in semi-blade

Manufacturer: Roman Szmal
 
The palette contains 180 colours including:
- 117 monopigment ;
- 45 earth colours all of which, unlike the products of many well-known companies, have been created from pigments obtained from grinding rocks rather than from synthetic iron pigments;
- 11 modern quinacridone colours; 
- and a dozen delaminating paints - among them compositions not seen anywhere else: Aquarius Green, Arrival's Grey, Ocean Blue, Shadow Grey, as well as olive greens.
 
Delaminating colours:
- 259 Shadow Grey (PB29/PBr7/PV19)
- 334 Mineral Violet (PB29/PV19)
- 336 Shadow Purple (PG50/PB29/PV19)
- 344 Ocean blue (PBr24/PB15:3)
- 342 Hooker green (PY150/PB27)   
- 346 Aquarius green (PY150/PBr25/PB29)
- 345 Light olive green (PB29/PY129/PY150/PBr25)
- 348 Olive green dark (PY150/PBk9/PG17/PBr25)
- 401 Arrival grey (PB29/PR177/PG26)
 
Typically, paints composed of two or more pigments can delaminate. This is due to the physical forces at work between the ink components, differences in the size of the individual grains and in the rate of sedimentation, resulting in an uneven distribution of the pigments in the water stain and, consequently, also on the paper.
 
Monopigmented paints, made from certain fossil pigments with a crystalline structure, which are heterogeneous by nature, can also split.
 
Colours:
- 239 Kaput mortum (PR102 earth pigment)
- 240 Hematite (PR102 earth pigment)
- 131 Van Dyck brown (NBr8 earth pigment)
 
All AQUARIUS watercolours have a very high lightfastness - min. 7 in BLUE WOOL SCALE which means a minimum of 100 years durability with proper exposure of the work. 
 
The labels on the watercolour halves are made of watercolour paper painted with the original paint and contain information regarding lightfastness, granulation, transparency and the degree of penetration of the pigment into the paper.
 
Approximate half-bone size:
27x15x8mm
 
Pigment granulation:
NG - non-granulating
MG - medium-granulating
G - granulating