It’s not very often that Winsor & Newton add new colours to their range of watercolours!
Winsor & Newton Professional Watercolour Limited Edition Twilight Colours
Winsor & Newton have added six limited edition colours to their their world-famous Professional Water Colour range.
These Twilight Watercolours are:
- Sanguine Red
- Quinacridone Violet
- Smalt (Dumont’s Blue)
- Aqua Green
- Cobalt Green Deep
- Chromium Black
All are series 3 colours and are available in 5ml tubes.
Winsor & Newton Professional Watercolour Limited Edition Twilight Colours
are now available at Jackson’s Art, always at a savings compared to hight street prices.
Winsor & Newton poetically speak of their colours:
“From burning, blood red skies to glassy, mirrored lakes. From dark, city tower blocks to giant distorted shadows. From ghostly mist shrouded hills to light-streaked, rush hour motorways. Whatever your style or subject, it’s time to capture your twilight”.
Winsor and Newton poetically describe their new colours
I did some colour charts and quick sketches
Fruit I painted using all six Winsor and Newton Limited Edition Twilight colours
on Fabriano Artistico Hot Press paper
The six new Winsor and Newton Limited Edition Twilight colours
painted onto Fabriano Artistico Hot Press paper
The six colours glazed in stripes over dry stripes
on Fabriano Artistico Hot Press paper
I did a quick sunset sketch
using four of the Winsor and Newton Limited Edition Twilight colours (not the two greens)
Artists Tried them Out
We sent out some small sample dot cards of the Limited Edition Twilight Watercolours, which let a few artists try out the new colours with little bits of paint.
“I absolutely loved painting with these new colours “Twilight” Inspired limited Edition.
Sanguine Red is a joy, a earthy, natural and unobtrusive colour that I loved working with.
Quinacridone Violet is a bright juicy warm violet that is very uplifting.
Smalt ( Dumonts Blue), a moody deep blue with warm tones in.
Aqua Green, a gorgeous rich deep green, cool tones that sit so well.
Cobalt Green Deep, forest floors springs to mind, a very easy green to use,a great all rounder.
Chromium Black, a lovely dense black.
All of the Twilight colours from this Limted Edition range compliment each other so very well and I shall definitely be adding them to my palette.
A great choice Winsor & Newton!”
Sarah Weyman tries the new Winsor & Newton Twilight colours
“Here I played with my favourite colour, the Aqua Green. When I added the Smalt Blue it was too purpley to look like the sea. I think this is definitely a flower colour, or good for clothes. But look at those lovely granulations!! I wasn’t too keen on the Cobalt Green until I introduced my own Aureolin; together they made a great colour for fresh grass and foliage.
Again, not keen on the black, but it is a warm colour. Usually I use Payne’s Grey for my blacks (or mix that with other colours) so this might be useful in a mix.”
“The colours blend well wet in wet which I enjoy. The Chromium Black is a warm black and rather like ink. I would describe the other colours as cool. I particularly like the Smalt Blue which is a lavender blue and would be useful for flowers. Aqua Green is very fresh and be great for painting reflections in glass and water. The Quinacridone Violet is fun and a good strong colour. I have tested them on thick Bockingford paper which is good for granulating colours. The Cobalt Green here initially looked a bit opaque but you can see it granulates well.”
Lyndsey Smith tries out Winsor & Newton's new Twilight colours
“My thoughts: the colours are lovely and vibrant and mixed well with each other, I was very keen on the aqua green and cobalt green. I certainly would be interested in buying a collection like this as they all worked so well together. (For the kingfisher I added some transparent orange into the mix.)”
Kathryn Coyle tries out Winsor & Newton's new Twilight colours
Viktorija from ‘And Smile Studio’
“A couple of days ago I got a very cute sample from Jackson’s Art (one of my favourite and luckily local art stores, yay!) of new Winsor & Newton twilight inspired limited edition watercolour dots to try out. Here are some doodles. The new collection consists of six lovely colours. The name is so beautiful and they are just perfect to draw twilight scenes and a mysterious girl!”
Viktorija from And Smile Studio tries the new Winsor & Newton Twilight colours
Limited Edition Twilight Watercolours Sampler Dot Card
Add a Winsor & Newton Limited Edition Twilight Watercolours Sampler Dot Card to your next order.
Click on the underlined link to go to the current offers on Winsor & Newton Professional Watercolour Limited Edition Twilight Colours on the Jackson’s Art Supplies website.
Postage on orders shipped standard to mainland UK addresses is free for orders of £39.
I paint a lot of sunrises and sunsets, so when I ran across this blog post just now it stopped me in my tracks–wow! What great idea W&N!
I just ordered all the colors except the smalt (Jackson’s is out), so ordered Winsor Blue (red shade) which is a gorgeous colour that i use a lot of anyway. Jackson’s is my FAVOURITE art store–and I live in the US!
Keep up the fantastic work!
Thank you Linda! That is great to hear!
I would love to see your sunset paintings, is there anywhere you have them online?
super and fantastic speech less painting Keep up the fantastic work!