Winsor & Newton Professional Watercolor, 5ml (0.17-oz) Tube, Naples Yellow

Winsor & Newton Professional Watercolor, 5ml (0.17-oz) Tube, Naples Yellow

• The finest water color offering the widest choice of pigments & the highest possible permanence
• Series: 1/Color Code: 422/Color Index: PW 6, PBr 24
• Permanence: AA/Opacity: Opaque
• Includes a 0. 17oz/5ml tube of Winsor & Newton Professional Water Color
• Conforms to ASTM D4236

Winsor & Newton Professional Water Color offers artists the widest and most balanced choice of pigments with the greatest possible permanence. The brilliance, transparency and purity of color is unparalleled to any other water color. Since 1832 when Henry Newton and William Winsor introduced the first moist water colors to the world, much of our reputation for supreme quality has stemmed from the Professional Water Color range. Since then Professional Water Color continues to be formulated and manufactured according to our founding principles. Each color within this wide and balanced spectrum of 96 colors, has been selected and formulated to offer the greatest choice so that artists can use a unique palette that best suits their work. Naples Yellow is an opaque pinkish-yellow pigment. Originally a lead antimonite pigment, it can be found in Babylon tiles dating 5th c BC. Its name comes from natural deposits found in Mount Vesuvius, Naples. Used by the Old Masters, it has been made artificially since the 15th c.