Holbein Yoshiko Yamamoto Gouache Set of 18, 15ml Tubes

Holbein Artists' Gouache is an ultra-premium gouache made with exceptionally finely ground pigments, resulting in superior colour performance and a smooth, velvety matte finish. The carefully selected pigments offer intense colour saturation, excellent lightfastness, and outstanding mixing capabilities, allowing colours to blend freely while retaining their brilliance, opacity, and tonal value. Unlike many competing products, Holbein adds no whitening or opacifying agents to increase coverage, ensuring colours remain clean, vibrant, and true. This formulation consistently delivers reliable results without milking out, darkening, or becoming muddy when mixed. With its silky-smooth consistency and high pigment concentration, this gouache achieves remarkable opacity using naturally opaque pigments alone.

The colours provide excellent covering power and maintain their clarity and richness over time, and are particularly suited to layering techniques, with each colour able to be applied over another with complete coverage, without cracking, bleeding, or compromising underlying layers. As with most matte gouache finishes, the painted surface remains delicate and should be protected from scratching or excessive handling; applying a fixative or matte varnish can increase surface durability, although it may slightly alter the appearance by increasing transparency. This gouache can also be mixed with Holbein watercolours, acrylic paints, and acrylic inks diluted for airbrush applications, making it a highly versatile medium for illustrators, designers, and fine artists. This Standard range set, curated by Yoshiko Yamamoto, brings together a considered selection spanning vivid reds and yellows, natural greens, cool blues and violets, and warm neutrals. From Cadmium Red and Opera through to Cerulean Blue, Ultramarine Deep, and Ivory Black, the palette offers a versatile, ready-to-use foundation for illustration and fine art work.

Key Characteristics:

• Ultra-premium gouache with a smooth, velvety matte finish
• Exceptionally finely ground pigments for superior colour performance
• Intense colour saturation and excellent lightfastness
• No whitening or opacifying agents added
• Resists milking out, darkening, and muddiness when mixed
• Suitable for layering without cracking or bleeding
• Can be mixed with Holbein watercolours, acrylics, and diluted acrylic inks
• Curated Standard range set by Yoshiko Yamamoto: Cadmium Red, Cadmium Red Purple, Cadmium Yellow, Cadmium Yellow Lemon, Yellow Ochre, Terre Verte, Ash Green, Phthalo Green, Cerulean Blue, Cobalt Blue, Ultramarine Deep, Cobalt Violet, Opera, Burnt Sienna, Chinese Orange, Ivory Black, Zinc White

What's in the box
1 x Holbein Yoshiko Yamamoto Gouache Set of 18, 15ml Tubes