HORADAM® Aquarell – Finest artists’ watercolours, series 14
The Premium Range
- 139 brilliant, intensely colours in half and full pans, as well as 5 ml and 15 ml tubes + oxgall
- 50 supergranulating colours in half pans, 5 ml and 15 ml tubes
- 162 of the 189 colours with the highest possible lightfastness (4 + 5 stars)
- 4-times liquid-poured pans for maximum yield
- Same formulation for pans and tube colours
- Always controllable paint flow – even on soft watercolour papers
- Easily re-wettable and re-usable after drying
- Quality range “Made in Germany”
- Selected Gum Arabic as a binder and natural oxgall as a traditional dispersant
The Standard Range
Our 139 HORADAM watercolours offer an exceptionally broad colour spectrum and meet the highest quality standards of a premium watercolour. In addition to well-established traditional colours the brand also includes innovative shades using unique pigments like Perylene, Quinacridone and transparent iron oxides. Many of the 92 single-pigment colours enable particularly vibrant mixtures while the 22 granulating colours produce fascinating effects (marked with "G" on the colour chart).
50 supergranulating watercolors
Supergranulating colours are characterised by a special feature: the combination of at least two granulating HORADAM pigments intensifies this effect into "supergranulation." These colours are made up of pigments from different colour families, allowing not only granulation effects but also color shifts.
The natural texture formation varies depending on the substrate and the amount of water being used. Rough paper enhances the granulation effect as well.
The 50 supergranulating colours are divided into 10 thematic sets, each with 5 colours: Deep Sea, Glacier, Galaxy, Forest, Tundra, Volcano, Shire, Desert, Haze, and Urban. All supergranulating HORADM watercolours are highly lightfast (4 and 5 stars).
4-times liquid poured pans
Schmincke has created an exceptional quality aspect that is second to none: the time-consuming liquid filling of HORDAM watercolours in half and full pans. The watercolour is poured four times in the pans with several weeks of drying phases. This results in a highly concentrated, maximum yield watercolour.
Selected gum arabic
A key component of our artist watercolour is the classic watercolour binder “Kordofan Gum Arabic” from the dry zones south of the Sahara. Due to natural variations we test all available batches with each purchase and always select the best quality of the respective vintage. This ensures small but noticeable quality advantages. A careful cleaning processand the individual use of all other recipe components guarantee a harmonious range that is easily picked up with a brush.
Painting sets
Our extensive selection of painting sets ranges from small travel sets to classic metal boxes with various assortments as well as numerous sets and boxes with supergranulating colours. In addition, sophisticated watercolour artists can find elegant and well-equipped wooden boxes in our range.
Watercolour mediums
Our popular Aqua mediums offers a wide range of mediums to expand creative possibilities, achieve special effects or protect finished watercolours.
HORADAM® Aquarell - Colour chart














Brilliant, lightfast white with highest opacity and strongest lightening power.












Cold, pure, lightfast traditional zinc white with good white lightening power; slightly cold bluish nuance. Due to transparency the best mixing white.
























Semi-opaque, cold light yellow for soft colour layers.












Highly opaque, slightly greenish, cool yellow. Heavy metal free alternative to cadmium yellow lemon. Creates brilliant mixtures.
























Slightly transparent pure yellow or lemon yellow, when applied in thin layers. In stronger layers tendency to ochre.












Highly transparent lemon yellow. Alternative to the original toxic chromium yellow lemon.












Highly transparent light yellow. Mixture of two modern, organic pigments. Alternative to the original toxic chromium yellow.












Reddish yellow. Alternative to the original used toxic chromium yellow deep. Tendency to orange.












Alternative to the original toxic chromium orange by using a lightfast, organic pigment.












Greenish yellow. Heavy metal-free alternative to cadmium yellow lemon. Basic yellow with good painting- and mixing properties. Creates brilliant mixtures with phthalogreen.












Brilliant yellow with modern, organic pigment. Heavy metal-free alternative to cadmium yellow. In thick layers semi-opaque, in thin layers transparent. Good lightfastness and mixing properties.












Intense brownish gold. Very good mixing properties. Perfect for warm green shades. Imitation of Pigment PO 49 which is no longer available.












Brilliant orange-red with an organic, lightfast pigment. Mixed with ultramarine finest soft, neutral greys are achieved. The intensive reddish character is ideal for mixtures of very light reds.
























Modern replacement of former animal metabolism product from India, which was prohibited long ago. Classic, very transparent, mix of two pigments.












Traditional colour from anorganic pigments. Often used for portrait_x000D_ and nude painting.
























Traditional colour. Cool lemon-cadmium-pigment. Alkali-resistant. Especially for mixing yellow-greens and greens.












Strong, brilliant yellow with opacifying character. In the Colour Theory often used as primary yellow (Y).












Highly brilliant, strong yellow with opacifying character.












Brilliant cadmium yellow with opacifying character.












Strong and brilliant with good mixing properties.












Brilliant, strong orange. Opacifying character. Good mixing properties.












Imitation of the originally toxic lead pigment with anorganic pigments. _x000D_The white contents creates opacifying character.












Traditional colour, opacity effected by white content. Mixed from 4 pigments, _x000D_to achieve the traditional reddish-yellow. Recommended for portrait and nude painting.












Very intense, semi-transparent and warm red. Darker and more yellowish than vermilion light.












Lightest and most yellowish transparent red. More reddish than transparent orange.












Transparent red. Less yellowish than vermilion light.












Warmer deep red with higher lightfastness, replaces dark red (14 345).












Dark, cold red. More light and bluish than dark red.












Expanding range of cadmium reds. Medium red with opacifying character.












Brilliant colour with opacifying character. To be used as lightest red.
























Deep red with slight brownish tendency. Opacifying character.












Transparent, bluish red. Modern, lightfast, organic pigment. Different colour layers have strong influence on the character from red to deep red.
























Originally obtained from real Cochenille-louses. Modern pigment allows today lightfast alternative.












Cool, saturated deep red with good transparency. Alternative to madder lake deep (14 358) with better lightfastness.
























Traditional colour. Soft pink mixed from two pigments. The manganesian lake pigment creates bluish reds. Light resistance of stronger layers is rather good.












Cool, saturated deep red, good transparency. Originally an alumina pigment lake of alizarine, the main dyestuff of the former important madder plant. Synthetic production of alizarin since 1870.












The lightfastness of the traditional alizarin-hue has been improved by anthrachinone pigments. The colour is deeper now.
























Cadmium-free alternative to cadmium red orange (14 348) with lightfast organic pigments.
























Intense dark red similar to alizarin but warmer. Transparent.












Modern alternative for the traditional dyestuff crimson or Cochenille with good lightfastness and opacifying character.












Metal-free alternative to the traditional vermilion. Organic pigment with good lightfastness and opacifying character.












Cadmium-free alternative to cadmium red deep (14 350). Lightfast, organic pigment with high tinting strength.












Original dyestuff replaced by organic quinacridone pigment. _x000D_Bluish alternative to primary colour magenta (14 352).
























Red violet between purple magenta and quinacridone violet._x000D_ Intense and lightfast.












Historical pigment. Brownish, dull, very light rose red. Strongly granulating.












Dark wine red. Brownish intense violet. Very lightfast. _x000D_Ideal as shadow colour for reds.












Blue-violet between quinacridone violet and manganese violet. _x000D_Intense and lightfast.












Soft blue-violet. Strongly granulating. More bluish than Schmincke violet.



