I have heard that Holbein Opera watercolor is highly Fugitive, along with other colors in the line of paints. How come you have not found out this one fact about this paint line? Go to Wetcanvas.com, and see! There is an artist that is performing his own permanence tests on various brands of watercolors, but has alerted many about Holbein's "OPERA" in particular, that it fades fast and turns a brown shade in a very short time with exposure to the sun or bright light. In this video, I see nothing resembling the color in great amounts, just a tiny speck of red on the house. Not much to fade wouldn't you say? I will be doing my own tests on various watercolors on my Fredrix WC canvas, to see if my professional paints will glow as you say the Holbein juicey colors do. I did an experiment almost two years ago for Fredrix to see if the Watercolor canvas would hold Pastels. You see they stopped production of their Pastel Canvas some time ago, so I decided to give it a try, and do Soft Pastels using Alcohol for the washes I found a quart of Ethanol or Ethyl Alcohol on Amazon for $12.00! They turned out very interesting as I am a beginner, and anything goes!
+digiphot2 Actually all Opera colors are fugitive and that's a given fact, even Sennelier whose 95%of paints are absolutely permanent has this one fugitive color known Opera Rose. In Holbein there are 5 unique colors that are in fugitive line which are the Opera, Compose Blue, Compose Green, Bright Violet and Bright Rose. I emailed the company about the durability of the fugitive colors and they told me that under a normal lighting condition in a living room, this color shall begin fading in 2-3 years, but if they were to be store in a dark place, fading shall start in 30 years, and they highly recommend to use this color if the painting is to be scanned only or to be stored in dark place, since this color are highly fugitive. But among the Opera colors out there Holbein Opera is one of the most durable, ive seen a test out there (forgot the site), their testing this fugitive colors and its a surprise that holbein lasted longer than the other brands.
I have heard that Holbein Opera watercolor is highly Fugitive, along with other colors in the line of paints. How come you have not found out this one fact about this paint line? Go to Wetcanvas.com, and see! There is an artist that is performing his own permanence tests on various brands of watercolors, but has alerted many about Holbein's "OPERA" in particular, that it fades fast and turns a brown shade in a very short time with exposure to the sun or bright light. In this video, I see nothing resembling the color in great amounts, just a tiny speck of red on the house.
Not much to fade wouldn't you say? I will be doing my own tests on various watercolors on my Fredrix WC canvas, to see if my professional paints will glow as you say the Holbein juicey colors do.
I did an experiment almost two years ago for Fredrix to see if the Watercolor canvas would hold Pastels. You see they stopped production of their Pastel Canvas some time ago, so I decided to give it a try, and do Soft Pastels using Alcohol for the washes I found a quart of Ethanol or Ethyl Alcohol on Amazon for $12.00! They turned out very interesting as I am a beginner, and anything goes!
+digiphot2 Actually all Opera colors are fugitive and that's a given fact, even Sennelier whose 95%of paints are absolutely permanent has this one fugitive color known Opera Rose. In Holbein there are 5 unique colors that are in fugitive line which are the Opera, Compose Blue, Compose Green, Bright Violet and Bright Rose. I emailed the company about the durability of the fugitive colors and they told me that under a normal lighting condition in a living room, this color shall begin fading in 2-3 years, but if they were to be store in a dark place, fading shall start in 30 years, and they highly recommend to use this color if the painting is to be scanned only or to be stored in dark place, since this color are highly fugitive. But among the Opera colors out there Holbein Opera is one of the most durable, ive seen a test out there (forgot the site), their testing this fugitive colors and its a surprise that holbein lasted longer than the other brands.
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