“Coming in May 2014” according to the page at the link you gave. I found this page[/URL] at the blog of Angela Fehr, who was asked to review these paints. Since you were interested in a review, you should certainly check out that page! It includes a painting Angela did with the paints. Golden is expanding into the artist marker market (April 2014, I think), and now it appears that they are also expanding into watercolors. (Golden already owns the Williamsburg line of oil colors.)

Yes, “pricey.” And the tubes are only 11ml each, although they claim their paints are ”five times stronger” than Company A’s and Company B’s paints. Personally, I’ve never tried either of those paint brands….

Another link[/URL].

Official Website?[/URL]

Greg

“The colour dries very true to the wet colour, which is often a problem in watercolour, but the texture and response is different than I am used to. I’m not seeing the blending and reactions that I am used to in traditional watercolour paints, and I’m not sure how I feel about that. I have used Golden liquid acrylics before and the QoR watercolour paints are very similar.”

Above is from the Angela Fehr blog. She says she will say more later after using them more.

…Anyway, Karl, I had the same thought when you said, “I already have trouble grabbing light amounts of the heavily pigmented brands we currently use….”

Right?! I swear, half the time I say the magic word and just barely wave my brush over the paint, and I still have to blot 85% of it into my paper towel before I can paint with it. Either that or I end up with giant puddles on my palette when I try to thin it.

Thanks for the heads up on the next review! With that binder, I’m getting visions of a stringy mess when trying to mix a light wash. I’m looking forward to May, though! It’s always a gas to try new toys.

Wow, she made those colors look great! That starter set is looking promising

http://www.qorcolors.com

If you click (well, tap for me since I’m doing this simultaneously with my iPad for viewing their site) on a color, it brings up the particulars. For example, Aureolin Modern (they couldn’t use “hue”?) the pigments are PW6 and PY150, pigment names, common names for the pigments, ASTM rating, opacity, and staining. Not all the colors have a clickable swatch yet.

Edit in: And I guess the message is don’t do this on your iPad, because all the color swatches seem to be there when using my computer. I couldn’t see their Burnt Sienna on my iPad for instance, but on the computer it’s all there.

Burnt Sienna (Natural)
Series : 1
CI Name : Pbr7
Pigment Name : Calcined Natural Iron Oxide
Common Name : N/A
ASTM Lightfastness : I
Opacity : SO
Staining : Semi-staining
Content Binding : Aquazol®
Size : 5ml, 11ml

I was curious if it was going to be PBr7 – I have the W&N PR101, and was thinking of trying a PBr7 version, so this would be an excuse to try both that and Qor at the same time for me.

I actually veered off into using acrylic inks and liquid acrylics with watercolor methods recently, and IMO Golden has more info about their pigments than anyone else. I think if they are indeed 5 x stronger, it is because the pigment particles are milled very fine. I could really see this difference contrasting the acrylic colors with the watercolor pigments I use. BUT one of the problems I had with the acrylics was precisely what Undergoose mentions–having to use very little of a pigment because it was so intense.

The other thing was that because (IMO this is the reason:) the pigments are so finely milled, they lack that character that is so (also IMO) lovable about watercolor–that texture. And I even don’t use granulated colors much; I prefer transparents such as WN focuses on. But even so, despite the intensity of the acrylic pigments, I felt they did not have the richness of texture of a watercolor pigment. I think they would be good for people who want to do very modern or fresh and striking images. I’m sure I will try some of them. But even looking at the samples, I see the homogeneity of the particles, which results, IMO, in a patch of color that does not have much depth. Some people might prefer that. Personally, I found that lack of depth/texture/character was problematic for me using acrylics as watercolors, even though most other things about them are great–like the cheapness, how quickly they dry, you can do jillions of clear glazes on any kind of paper at all, and so forth.

I meant to post a link to their pigment page for their liquid acrylics so you can see how much info they give:

http://www.goldenpaints.com/products/color/fluid/fldcht1.php

Click on a swatch to see what I mean.