Schmincke Finest Artists’ Calligraphy Gouache Colours are brilliant and mainly opaque, and their fine consistency perfectly suits the different forms of application in calligraphy.

The following guide was taken from a Schmincke Finest Artists’ Calligraphy Gouache product sheet I recently discovered in an old box.

You can create as many different colours as you need by using just six paints in the Schmincke Calligraphy Gouache Set.

These six colours are each in a cold and warm variant:

- yellow
- red
- blue

From these you can mix the secondaries.
Look at the paint blocks below. Each individual colour has a tiny amount of a second colour mixed with it. The first colour, lemon-yellow, is yellow-blue. Cadmium yellow light is yellow-red. To make good, strong secondaries mix together the two primary colours which are associated.

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Schmincke Finest Artists’ Calligraphy Gouache Colours have been especially developed for use in calligraphy. The colours are brilliant and mainly opaque, and their fine consistency perfectly suits the different forms of application in calligraphy.

Schmincke Calligraphy Gouache is available in 13 colours. The colours are brilliant, mainly opaque and of a fine consistency due to the pigments being finely ground.

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Which paint colours to choose can be quite daunting -so many colours are available. But you do not need to buy them all!

All colours can be mixed from the 3 primary colours; red, blue and yellow. However, mixing a yellow and blue together may not always give you a vibrant green, if the colours being mixed are not pure and contain a small amount of another primary colour, it may differ the tone. For instance a yellow which contains a small amount of blue pigment would result in a greener tone. Don’t be afraid to experiment to find the exact desired colour.
You will be able to achieve a much wider range of colours by mixing secondary colours e.g. purple, green and orange together rather than just the primary pigments. Therefore buying 6 colours of paint rather than just the 3 primary colours, will enable you to mix any colour you want.

The 6 colours are:
Ultramarine (blue-red)
Paris Blue (blue-yellow)
Lemon Yellow (yellow-blue)
Cadmium Yellow (yellow-red)
Vermilion / Cadium Red (red-yellow)
Madder Red / Alizarin (red-blue)

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