Schmincke PRIMAcryl Finest Artist's Acrylic is a professional grade acrylic colour range. The range consists of 84 shades made from organic and inorganic pigments as well as natural and synthetic, which reflect historical hues as well as the latest technological advances in colour making.
The extraordinary concentration of pigment is each colour guarantees brilliance and luminosity. The titanium white in particular is unrivalled in it's pigment concentration, opacity and coverage.
The high solid rate of the acrylic paint means that the colour is elastic and contour stable when dry. There is no colour shift from wet to dry and no tendency to yellow or fade. Dried paint layers are durable, flexible, and water resistant. The qualities of Schmincke PRIMAcryl allow it to rival the finest acrylic colour ranges across the world.• Unmatched titanium white: highest pigmentation, opacity and high spreading rate for brilliant mixtures
• High solids content: high flow resistance with excellent painting properties
• Elastic but still solid structures after drying
• Almost no colour shift after drying
• Waterproof and highly resistant after drying
• Exclusively 4 and 5 star rating for lightfastness
• Quality assortment made in Germany
Focus on Pigment /colour classificationsAlong with the purely shade-related view of colours, it is worth taking a look at the key component of a colour - the pigment. The pigments used in Finest Artists’ Acrylic are of organic and inorganic, synthetic and natural origin and are of top artist quality. The Finest Artists’ Acrylic colour selection is based on the classic as well as the latest available pigments and is designed for the most commonly used professional painting techniques. The pigments used determine the shade, the opacity and the light
fastness of an acrylic colour. The pigment classifications provide an overview of the available Finest Artists’ Acrylic colours in the respective pigment class. For example, this shows that the Finest Artists’ Acrylic assortment contains seven cadmium colours, five shades each with cobalt, phthalocyanine, quinacridone
etc. The colour code section contains the traditional shades used in Finest Artists’ Acrylic plus earth tones, white tones and the grey-black series, summarized at a glance.
White mixturesThe Finest Artists’ Acrylic assortment contains three white shades for various applications and effects. In addition to being used in their pure form, the white shades are extremely suitable for mixtures with a variety of results. Based on five standard shades, the differences in their mixing characteristics can be clearly displayed: Titanium white has by far the highest brightening effect. With zinc white, the shade’s character is the most strongly preserved. Heavy body white provides moderate brightening for more pronounced strokes.