A J Ludlow Charcoal Grey Professional Watercolour

Charcoal Grey is just one of the bright and exquisite Professional Watercolours from A J Ludlow. Being based on a single pigment with excellent permanence and light fastness, ensures that this watercolour’s properties are exceptional. As with all our fine-art materials, Charcoal Grey watercolour is lovingly handmade in the UK by a skilled artisan from the best ingredients and finest pigments.

Charcoal Grey professional quality watercolour is supplied in a 15ml glass jar, because:

• The watercolour’s wet mass tone can be seen through the walls of the jar;
• The colour can be easily transferred from the jar to the palette with a palette knife.

But more importantly, there is no need for unnecessary additives or formulation changes to make processing in our colour manufacturing workshop easier, allowing the Charcoal Grey watercolour made by A J Ludlow to be at the highest pigment concentration and the pigment’s unique properties to be uncompromised. Anything less would be at odds with the brilliance and performance demanded of a professional quality watercolour range.

This Professional Watercolour is prepared using English willow charcoal powder, which gives the watercolour its deep almost black colour, excellent light fastness and opacity. It therefore affords a semi-opaque watercolour (as can be seen in the figure 1a below).

Figure 1: Assessment of (a) the opacity/transparency and (b) staining power of A J Ludlow Charcoal Grey Professional Watercolour*.

The staining power of the Charcoal Grey watercolour is on the low side and so the watercolour is easily lifted out (see figure 1b above).

This watercolour has a structured consistency, but is easily transferred from the jar to the watercolour palette using a clean spatula or palette knife. As with all the Professional Watercolours from A J Ludlow, once water is added, this watercolour has excellent flow and is a joy to paint with.

Charcoal Grey Professional Watercolour from A J Ludlow is a single pigmented grey, using English willow charcoal powder. It can be used to create interesting mono-tone paintings and can be diluted to use in dip pens for line drawings.

Pigment Details: Natural Carbon / Colour Index Pigment Black 8 ( C.I. PBk8)

Footnote:

*Details of how each watercolour is tested are given in the May 2021 ARTicle “Testing and Assessing the Properties of Watercolours – Part 1 ” (see also Part 2 of the ARTicle, which was published in June 2021).