Roman Szmal : Aquarius : Watercolor Paint
From $3.70
A range of exceptional quality watercolors made using the best pigments carefully sourced from across the world. The majority of colors are single pigment paints.
- 180 colors available
- Professional quality
- Made with gum arabic, glycerin, linden honey, distilled water, and pure pigments
- Each pan is filled by hand
- Made in Poland
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Aquarius is a range of artist quality watercolors made by Roman Szmal. The majority of Roman Szmal colors are single pigment paints, which ensures clean mixing and lets artists easily create their own palettes.
Each color is made with high-quality gum arabic and glycerin, linden honey, distilled water and pure pigments. Every pan is hand-filled and labelled with watercolor paper.
The range contains a few unique tones such as PY61, PY168, PY181, PV37, PBr23 or PBk32. The 42 Earth Shades are made from natural earths, not synthetic iron oxides, and these pigments are found in many different places around the world. Some unique shades are created exclusively by Roman Szmal, such as Aquarius Green, Przybysz's Grey, Ocean Blue, Shadow Violet, Green Gold, and Olive Green.
Colors are made in small batches that allow them to be carefully checked. Every batch is tested for performance qualities: vibrancy, flowing abilities, viscosity, color value, transparency, granulation, undertone, tinting strength, clarity, and particle size. For each color, Roman Szmal select the perfect grind to match the particle size.
Spec
| Product Code | P-WRAF |
|---|---|
| To Use With | Watercolor |
| Quality | Excellent |
| Vegan | Non Vegan |
Reviews 11
Excellent quality
I’ve invested in several high end watercolor artist grade paints. As of this review Roman Szmall is my go-to when I begin a project! I really love how easily the paint wets and the transparent colors are spot on.... best paints yet in my opinion.
amazing blue!
I bought a few colours from this range and was thrilled with the light cobalt blue, what a colour! I sometimes find watercolour a little insipid but this pigment is so vibrant and mixes wonderfully with other colours.
Very high quality and a good price
This was my first artist grade watercolour paint. I loved the quality and the price. I've bought more from them after that.
My absolute fave watercolor paints
Love the shade range. Wish they would come in tubes (hopefully soon).
Outstanding paints
These paints are of outstanding quality and beauty. They are an excellent price and value and essential to my palette. The number of pure pigment colors aids in mixing and provides limitless options.
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This paint is FUN! Beautiful colors, paints like a dream and all for a very reasonable price point. My favorite colors so far are Quin Gold, Pthalo Blue Turquoise, Misty Morning, Mineral Violet and Transparent Mummy Red.
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Big fan of this brand, a few of the colors are now staples in my portable sketching kit, and my portrait palette (namely Transparent Gold Ochre, Transparent Brown, and Perylene Maroon). Amazing selection of single-pigment colors that cover the entire rainbow spectrum. I will however detract one star because their lightfastness information is not always accurate. Like Daniel Smith, they rate PR177 as blue wool 7/8 in their chart and PR176 as BW7, while in fact both visibly fade in tints and lose their strong saturation within a few months in a window test (in winter time), so they should be labeled BW6 at best. This fact puts me off from buying more purples, because all those BW8 ratings seem very suspicious.
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I love these watercolours, my favourite colour is misty morning as it has a beautiful granulation effect, highly recommend
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Been working with these paints about a year. They are so lovely and outperform some of the more expensive brands even on cheap paper. Highly recommend.
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Been working with these paints about a year. They are so lovely and outperform some of the more expensive brands even on cheap paper. Highly recommend.
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I ordered Lemon Yellow, Quin Scarlet, Quin Pink, Pthalo Blue (green shade), and Transparent Brown to help fill out a split primary palette. Aside from the usual caveat of "Pop them in the freezer for a bit before unwrapping" they are perfect. Filled without overfilling. Highly pigmented, easy to rewet, brilliant colors.