Schmincke Horadam Watercolors are high quality, professional watercolors that have a few special characteristics. The optimum amount of ox-gall is added to each color to give artists ultimate control with the flow and distribution of color. The binder which is used is Kordofan Gum Arabic from the Southern Sahara region. Like most natural products, the integrity and quality of the Gum Arabic differs from year to year, so Schmincke tests each batch of Gum Arabic every time, to select only the best crop of the respective year. The paint is also fully reusable when dried on a palette as Schmincke use the same formulation for their tubes and pans. This is unusual as many other brands of watercolor have a different formula for the pans which allows them to extrude the paint like clay and cut it into pieces to put into the pans.

These new Horadam sets have been produced to coincide with the centenary of the death of Josef Horadam, one of the founders of Schmincke & Co. They include:

• A limited-edition Schmincke Horadam Watercolor set including twelve half-pans in a genuine sterling silver case.
• A luxury limited-edition watercolor set including every color in the newly-expanded Horadam Watercolor range of 140 colors.
• A portable metal tin containing twelve Schmincke Horadam Watercolor Half-pans.
• A portable metal tin containing twelve Schmincke Horadam Watercolor Half-pans, with a color-selection modelled on a historic watercolor palette from the first half of the Twentieth Century.