These Watercolours are made with the finest pigments to create a range of unique colours. These paints are available in 5ml and 20ml tubes.
Wallace Seymour created this range of watercolour paints in response to the changes in the paint manufacturing industry. They felt that over the last 10-15 years, the quality and availability of traditional colours in watercolour have decreased.
Wallace Seymour Vintage Watercolour range offers a range of colours to discerning artists who value quality.
£7.65 £6.50
Brilliant Yellow (PW 6, PY 53)
This is a special grade of Nickel Titanium Yellow pigment, blended with best quality Titanium dioxide to create this off-white shade. Ideal for highlights, where white alone is too invasive. Opaque as mass tone, some transparency as a wash. Permanent.
£11.15 £9.48
Lemon Yellow (Nickel Titanate) (PY53)
Modern, opaque metal mineral pigment. Very good hiding power.
£7.65 £6.50
Horton Lemon (PY3)
Synthetic organic pigment, very intense – cool lemon shade. Transparent when diluted to a wash.
£8.75 £7.44
Cadmium Lemon Yellow (PY35)
Opaque, intense, dense. Slightly transparent when compared to Cadmium Yellow.
£8.75 £7.44
Cadmium Yellow (PY35)
Opaque, intense, dense. Good hiding power. Shows some transparency on dilution.
£8.05 £6.84
Chrome Yellow hue (PR4, PY3)
Mixed shade to replace genuine Chrome Yellow (obsolete, toxic). Blend of two synthetic organic pigments: strong and intense, showing some transparency when diluted to a wash.
£13.30 £11.30
Cobalt Yellow (PY40)
Also known as ‘Aureolin’. Metal mineral pigment: deep, intense slightly warm shade at mass tone – glowing and transparent upon dilution.
£13.30 £11.30
Weld-Reseda (NY 2)
Hand-processed from plant stuff. Lemon yellow shade, semi-transparent.
£13.30 £11.30
Stil de Grain (NY 13)
Natural plant colour, hand processed from plant stuff. Transparent, glowing warm yellow.
£8.75 £7.44
Indian Yellow - Nickel Azo Yellow (PY150)
Modern synthetic organic pigment, showing strong almost ‘mustard’ shade at full strength but when diluted give glowing and transparent shade. Extremely good tinting strength and excellent in mixtures with blues to gain green shades.
£11.15 £9.48
Quinacridone Yellow-Gold (PO 48) (PY 150)
Blend of modern synthetic organic pigments. Very lightfast. Intense deep golden ‘burnt’ orange-yellow shade at mass tone – when diluted to wash gives warm glowing, almost earthy tones.
£11.15 £9.48
Naples Yellow Light Genuine (PY 41)
Lead-tin-antimony matrix. Characteristic pale bright lemon shade. Dense, opaque but flushes out to a semi-transparent wash with water.
£11.15 £9.48
Naples Yellow Deep - Genuine (PY41)
Genuine, traditional Naples Yellow from one of the last British artisan pigment houses . Opaque and dense as mass tone. Granulates to some extent upon dilution.
£7.65 £6.50
Naples Yellow Reddish (PY 42) (PR 4) (PW 6)
Blended to match older mixtures of pink-red Naples Yellow. Permanent. Opaque.
£11.15 £9.48
Orange Madder Genuine Natural (PR 9) (NY 2)
Developed in the dye vat from plantsuff of Reseda and roots of Madder, then carefully washed and struck to alumina base. Transparent. Less permanent when exposed to direct sunlight.
£7.65 £6.50
Fauve Orange (PR 4) (PY 3)
Bright orange shade, based on close blending on the paint mill of two synthetic pigments.
Transparent. Good permanence
£8.75 £7.44
Cadmium Orange Deep PO 20
Pure cadmium pigment, from the English Potteries. Dense, opaque as mass tone, revealing some transparency as a wash. Permanent.
£8.75 £7.44
Cadmium Orange Light (PO 20)
Pure cadmium pigment, from the English Potteries. Dense, opaque as mass tone, revealing some transparency as a wash. Permanent.
£13.30 £11.30
Cinnabar, Monte Amiata - Genuine (PR106)
Natural vermilion from crushed hydro-thermic Cinnabar “Strawberries” from the Tuscan volcano, Monte Amiata.
Bright, strong mid-red, with granular effect when diluted to a wash.
£13.30 £11.30
Vermilion - Genuine (PR106)
Mercuric sulphide – this early metal mineral pigment has been
Essential in the artist’s palette since medieval times. Opaque, dense with good covering power – a gentle bright red when compared to Cadmium Red.
£7.65 £6.50
Horton Red (PR112)
Modern synthetic organic pigment, Napthol Red. A core primary colour which shows excellent tinting strength and transparency when diluted.
£8.75 £7.44
Cadmium Red (PR108)
Deep, intense and opaque metal mineral pigment. Solid and covering, even when heavily diluted.
£7.65 £6.50
Greaves Red (PR4)
Synthetic Organic ‘Permanent Red’ is similar in shade to Horton red but has a more gentle edge. Named after mid 20C English watercolourist ….Greaves.
£8.75 £7.44
Venetian Rose
Blend of pigments to create a soft rose-pink shade. Semi opaque, gentle. Beautiful.
£13.30 £11.30
Rose Dore Genuine, Natural Madder (NR 9)
Hand-processed natural lake from plant roots. Own production. Delicate shade of madder lake.
Transparent. Reduced permanence when exposed to direct sunlight.
£16.05 £13.64
Rubies Pure Mineral Colour
Specially prepared from Ruby in mineral form. The translucent stone is carefully pulverised to create a beautiful, crystalline gentle pink. Granulates effectively when diluted to a wash.
£13.30 £11.30
Thuilite, Pure Mineral Colour
Crystalline pale lilac shade, from gemstone. Hand-processed. Granular, semi-translucent. Very lightfast.
£13.30 £11.30
London Rose, Original Shade, Genuine Natural Rose Madder (PR 9)
Madder production in London ceased around ten years ago, with the relocation of the last producer abroad. This hand-made Madder Rose is carefully produced over a period of months to provide as close a match as possible to the type of madder lakes familiar to watercolour artists working in the 1980s, 1990s.
£11.15 £9.48
Cadmium Rose (PR 108)
Special production of cadmium pigment with silicate. Granular, semi-transparent. Unique. Permanent.
£8.05 £6.84
Cinabrese, Flesh Tint
Red Oxide with Titanium White – provides flesh tone when applied in gentle glazes over Verdaccio, in the Florentine Renaissance manner. Semi-opaque.
£8.75 £7.44
Quinacridone Red Gold (PO48)
Synthetic organic pigment with brilliant intensity and glowing red-orange undershade.
£11.15 £9.48
Velvet Rose (PR 122)
Synthetic organic pigment. This quinacridone red-violet is supper strong and extremely stable to light. Deep velvet red-violet shade as mass tone, dilutes to form delicate pink washes.
£8.75 £7.44
Potter’s Pink (PR233)
Gentle, warm dark pink colour. Granulates upon dilution to a wash. Semi-opaque, showing transparency when diluted.
Historic ceramic pigment.
£8.75 £7.44
Laque de Garance (PR 83) [Alizarin Crimson, Production 1980s]
Synthetic organic pigment. Deep red-crimson shade with glowing undertones. This 1980s production gives a redder shade than the modern American product.
£11.15 £9.48
Madder Lake - Genuine (NR9)
Natural madder lake, deep red-brown shade as mass tone, pulling out to a warm red-rose tint as wash. Small batch production of natural plant colour – unique and exceptional.
£13.30 £11.30
Carmine – Natural (NR 4)
The commercial production of standard Carmine pigment continues in the Canaries and Peru. The Cochineal insect is the base of a powerful red dye, which is further developed into a lake pigment. As used by the top cosmetic houses for lipstick but also still used as a natural base food colorant.
As a watercolour it is intense and very transparent. Reduced permanence when exposed to direct sunlight
£13.30 £11.30
Munich Lake. Purple Red (NR 4)
Developed from Cochineal insect, this special natural lake pigment is hand-produced in Italy in small batches. Compared to standard Carmine, the colour is more purple-red and deeper in shade. Unique. Transparent. Reduced permanence when exposed to direct sunlight
£8.75 £7.44
Cadmium Red Deep (PR108)
Deep, intense and opaque metal mineral pigment. Solid and covering, even when heavily diluted.
£8.05 £6.84
Rosa Magenta (PV19)
Bright pink based on quinacridone pigment, transparent – lower tinting strength when compared to Velvet Rose.
£8.75 £7.44
Scala Pink (PR122, Rhodamine)
Blend of quincardione pigment and Rhodamine (fluorescent). Vivid, intense pink-rose shade with excellent tinting strength. Will show some fading when exposed to strong sunlight.
£11.15 £9.48
Cobalt Violet (PV14)
Pure, bright violet, semi-transparent. Unique pigment. Shows granulation when diluted to a wash.
£8.05 £6.84
Ultramarine Pink (PV 15)
Soft, gentle pink-violet. Shows slight granulation as a wash. Very lightfast.
£8.05 £6.84
Ultramarine Violet (PV15)
Pale low tinting strength violet. Transparent.
£8.75 £7.44
Manganese Violet (PV 16)
Semi-opaque metal mineral pigment. Dense as mass tone, revealing some transparency in washes. Permanent.
£8.75 £7.44
Thioindigo (PR 88)
Deep red-blue-violet, very intense, almost opaque in mass tone but transparent as a wash. Permanent.
£7.65 £6.50
Horton Violet (Dioxazine) (PV23)
Extra strong Dioxazine synthetic organic pigment with unrivalled tinting power. Transparent.
£13.30 £11.30
Blue John Pure Mineral Colour
Gentle lilac from pure ground mineral. Crystalline structure, shows translucency and granulation when diluted. Unique mineral colour from the old mine cavern in Derbyshire.
£8.75 £7.44
Iron Plum (Rudstone PR 101, Backbarrow Blue PB 29)
Unique blend of Backbarrow Blue, a form of Ultramarine as produced at Backbarrow, to the south of Windermere, milled with Yorkshire Rudstone. Strong, plummy blue-violet shade. The two colours are revealed when strongly diluted. Semi-transparent. Granulates.