Sennelier l'Aquarelle French Artists Watercolors

Honey Based Watercolor - Finest Luxury honey-based artists' watercolors from France!

For 125 years, Sennelier of France has been a respected and trusted artists' color maker, with their line of watercolors being among the most popular in the world. Now, Sennelier have reformulated the recipe and expanded the color range for these paints, creating the improved line of L'Aquarelle French Artists' Watercolors! While retaining many of the original colors based on the palettes of the Impressionists, l'Aquarelle Luxury Watercolors now boast a wider range of 98 vibrant colors, from the most luminous lights to the richest darks.

Honey in the paint to reinforce the longevity of the colors, their radiance and luminosity.

• Highly Pigmented To Produce The Most Vivid Expressions
• Honey Is Added To Binder Which Creates A Lustrous Finish To Your Art
• 98 Colors Including Unique Ones Of The French Palette

Only the finest, highly lightfast pigments are used, ground slowly on stone mills and soaked for 24 hours in pure water so they incorporate more fully with the Kordofan gum arabic and honey binder, making for a smooth paint ideal for radiant, transparent washes. Sennelier also increased the honey content in l'Aquarelle French Watercolors, which serves not only as a preservative, but also an additive that improves the paint flow while imparting incomparable brilliance and smoothness, and leaves the dried paint film with a lustrous finish. Using traditional paint-making methods, Sennelier have tailored their new line of watercolors to meet the needs of today's watercolor artist — now you too can add the brilliance of l'Aquarelle French Artists' Watercolors to your own art!

Honey-based Watercolors Made in France

Honey has many virtues: a symbol of light and sun, an emblem of poetry and science and has been used since Ancient times as a remedy for dry skin and to help heal wounds. This nectar is used in L'Aquarelle Sennelier not only as a preservative but as an additive giving incomparable brilliance and smoothness to the paint. Always striving for excellence, Sennelier has reworked its watercolor formula with increasing the amount of Honey in the paint to reinforce the longevity of the colors, their radiance and luminosity.