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Gouache Extra Fine Quality
• Top quality gouache colour for artists, designers and illustrators as well as for educational purposes
• High pigmentation resulting in powerful colours
• Dries within a few minutes to a uniform, velvety, matt and opaque appearance
• Choice of 60 intense colours
 
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Ecoline liquid water colour
• Ready to use liquid water colour for diverse creative applications both at home and at school
• Available in 46 brilliant transparent colours and 2 opaque colours (white and gold)
• The colour range includes the three primary colours lemon yellow (205), magenta (337) and sky blue cyan (578)
• Good adhesion to water colour and drawing paper and board. To retain colours the drawings should be kept in a drawing portfolio.
 
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Auxiliaries
Talens supplies a large and very complete range of auxiliaries, essential for practically every painting technique.
These auxiliaries are divided into mediums and varnishes. The auxiliaries are accurately geared to the specific requirements of each technique. They ensure a good technical composition and conservation of the work or change the properties of the artists' paint.
 
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Primers for oil colour
The quality of the preparation determines to a large degree the eventual durability of the work.
Paper, cardboard, wood, cotton and linen, for example, can serve as grounds for oil colour, but not without first being treated. An untreated or insufficiently prepared ground would absorb the oil from the paint and would eventually be damaged by the oil. A layer of paint must have enough oil to surround the pigments and to form a good film. Only then are the pigments sufficiently bonded and early cracks avoided. Talens Gesso Primer has all the necessary properties for a durable result.
 
Solvents for oil colour
Both white spirit and turpentine can be used to thin paint and clean brushes. Turpentine is often used as a thinner, partly due to the resin-like odour that many artists find pleasant. White spirit is usually used for rinsing out brushes.
 
Oils for oil colour
The various Talens oils serve primarily as ingredients for the artist to prepare his own mediums and paint. It is not recommended to use pure oil as a medium. A medium must never consist of more than 40% oil. This would make the paint film too fat and too sealed, making it difficult for a next layer to adhere onto it. What's more, the more oil is added, the greater the risk of wrinkling.
 
Mediums for oil colour
The purpose of a medium is to influence one or more properties of the paint and to make the paint suitable for a certain application. Examples include consistency, gloss, flow, drying time, transparency and durability of a paint film. As an underlying (lean) layer absorbs oil from a subsequent layer, a subsequent layer has to contain relatively more oil. Think of the rule, fat over lean.
 
Varnishes for oil colour
Talens varnishes give a durable protection to your oil painting.
 
Auxiliaries for oil colour - miscellaneous
In addition to primers, solvents, oils, mediums and varnishes, Talens also has products to decrease the drying time and for making relief grounds for oil paint.
 
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Gouache medium
The medium for gouache is Gum arabic. For a more vibrant and less even paint layer, Talens Gum arabic can be added.