Davy's Gray is a soft grey colour traditionally including powdered slate pigments. It was developed by Winsor & Newton for the 19th c English artist Henry Davy, a pupil of famous water-colourist J S Cotman.
Copper is a unique brown colour with warm red undertones. Due to its innovative combination of pigments, it creates a metal sheen closely resembling that of copper.
Pewter is a unique silver grey oil colour which is semi-opaque. Due to its unusual combination of pigments, it creates a metal sheen closely resembling that of pewter.
Magenta is a rich deep violet red colour. It is a transparent pigment. The name Magenta comes from a lake colour named in 1859 after the battle in Magenta, Italy.
Winsor Emerald is a bright clean opaque emerald colour. First documented in 1822, it was originally a deadly colour containing arsenic. It is said to have killed Napoleon as his wallpaper in St...
Permanent Carmine is a mid-crimson pigment. Highly transparent and permanent, it is a lower cost replacement to genuine Carmine. In Antiquity, Carmine was made from thousands of crushed kermes...
Prussian Green is a green transparent oil colour with a yellow undertone. It is lightfast and permanent. It is also called Brunswick Green; after the location where it was first manufactured...
Quinacridone Magenta is a rich deep violet-red colour. It is based on the Quinacridone pigment. The name Magenta comes from a lake colour named in 1859 after the battle in Magenta, Italy.
