Stockmar Opaque Colour Box - 12 Colours

Offering the Artist's quality you have come to expect from Stockmar. This 12 assorted colours + brush + mixing palette will provide many countless adventures in painting fun.  The classic artistically shaped box in a metal design tin, contains 12 removable colour tabs. 

This set is made in Italy.

The Stockmar mixing palette is a separate piece that can be put down wherever is most convenient for your work - and can store together in the tin.  Stockmar feels it is easier to clean than a painting box lid being used as a palette. In addition, your Stockmar box of Opaque colours contains a tube of Opaque white and a top quality "Cat's Tongue" Brush that holds its shape, made of Ponex synthetic hair and produced for Stockmar by the tradition-conscious German brush manufacturer Zahn.

Like all of our Stockmar paints and colours, Goethe's colour circle can be introduced, but in an extended version: The three basic or primary colours form a triangle; between them are the secondary colours, formed by mixing the adjacent primaries - green from yellow and blue, orange from yellow and red, and violet from red and blue. The colours opposite to one another are complementary colours in which forms the widest possible contrast.

Steps to introduce colour: 

If we now mix the primary with the secondary colours, we arrive at an extension of the colour circle. For example, we can mix red and violet to make red-violet, or yellow and orange to make yellow-orange. In order to enhance the range of colours, and to obtain a variety from mixing them, the Stockmar box of Opaque colours includes two tones of each basic colour: Lemon Yellow, Golden Yellow, Carmine Red, Vermilion, Ultramarine, and Prussian Blue.

The Stockmar colours are delicately balanced with one another, and when mixed will yield harmonious shades of colours.

Like all Stockmar's colour materials, these Opaque colours have a unique luminosity. This is due to the fact that the concentration of the colour pigments in our Opaque colours is particularly intense. As a result the colours are richer, and remain powerful even when heavily diluted. Stockmar Opaque colours are suitable for various different painting techniques; classic opaque painting (over painting), classic watercolour painting, lazure painting or techniques based on a mixture of approaches.

Non-toxic and Water Soluble. 

The finer points of the composition of Stockmar products of course remain a secret. But one thing Stockmar promises customers - Stockmar products have no negative effects on health or on the environment.