These professional quality watercolors are made from a concentrated combination of pigments from around the world and the finest and most stable Gum Arabic binder. Colors are carefully milled up to 4 times to insure the best working characteristics and beauty including excellent light refraction and sensational dispersion.

These colors are extremely stable in terms of lightfast rating and light stability. They may be used for both transparent and opaque techniques. Opaque techniques can be achieved by limiting dilution and mixing with opaque white. The brightness and transparency of these watercolors as well as their incredible beauty is legendary. SWC watercolors remain exceptionally brilliant even when intermixing and thus are widely used in a variety of applications being of course a world wide favorite for watercolor painting and as well for graphic and architectural illustrative techniques.

The entire range carries either the AP non toxic label and if qualified a CL health label. Colors that may be harmful are identified for the safety of the artist so they will use proper care. All colors are refined according to the international color system of Munsell, Ostwald, and the Natural Color System.