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PRODUCT FEA TURE

System Heavy Body is the perfect almost any grease-free surface: canvas,
complement to System 3 Original board, wood, gesso, paper, cement,
acrylics. It is an ultra-thick acrylic plaster, wet or dry lime walls and
colour with an oil-like, heavy and for painting on glass - their adhesive
buttery consistency that dries with an qualities are excellent. Where it often
oil-like gloss. System Heavy Body takes hours before a section of an oil
colours are suitable for painting painting can be reworked, it takes
on any semi-porous surface that only minutes before a layer of casein
is free of grease and dirt. As with can be applied over another. Also, it
System 3 Original colours, they are can be continually reworked, making
ideal for use on canvas and paper corrections or special effects easy
but are also suitable for painting without colours becoming muddy.
on brickwork, plaster, hardboard, Varnished casein painting closely
MDF and fabrics if primed with resembles oils with comparably rich
Daler-Rowney Gesso. System colours and textures. After the painting
Heavy Body can even be applied to has completely dried, one or more texture, ti
difficult surfaces such as laminated thin applications of Shiva Casein covering power and is best applied
plastics, glass or glazed ceramics if Varnish will enhance this effect with brush, ruling pen or airbrush.
the surface is abraded, roughened,
etched and/or suitably primed. EGG TEMPERA OIL COLOURS
Daler-Rowney Egg Tempera Daler-Rowney Artists’ Oil Colours
CASEIN COLOURS Egg Tempera is one of the oldest Daler-Rowney Artists’ oil colours are
Richeson “Shiva” Casein Colours mediums for fine art painting, dating professional quality paints designed
Few artist colours are as easy to back to Roman Egypt and used by for durability and permanence
handle or allow the artist to learn most of the Great Masters during and made using only the very best
such a variety of painting techniques. the Renaissance. Egg Tempera materials available. Only the best
Combining this variety of styles and imparts pure translucent colour with pigments are used regardless of cost
textures in a singular composition a distinctive luminosity and matt to ensure absolute perfection for
is what makes a Casein painting so satin finish. Today, Daler-Rowney is the discerning artist. The distinctive
striking, an effect that is enhanced one of the few artists’ colourmen to buttery consistency of Daler-Rowney
by their rich and intense colour. offer it ready-mixed in tubes-widely Artists’ Oils derives from the use
They can be applied in any manner, used by professional art restorers. of linseed oil and wax, which acts
from impasto to thin watercolour as a plasticiser, helping to prevent
washes. They have an exceptional GOUACHE even heavy impasto from becoming
integrity of colour and always dry to Daler-Rowney Designers Gouache brittle and cracking over time. The
a perfect matte finish which makes Daler-Rowney Designers Gouache is 82 colours in the range are available
them excellent for art reproduction. a brilliant opaque artist’s quality body in 38ml tubes in five price series.
Casein, though naturally matte, colour, developed for professional
can be brought to a satin sheen by designers working on illustrations
buffing with a soft cloth. If the artist for graphic reproduction. It is also
desires a gloss finish, the painting widely used in fine art painting,
can be varnished. Caseins may both on its own and with transparent
be used to successfully produce a watercolours. The high quality
painting with the transparency of pigments and superior reflective
a watercolour, the smooth opacity qualities of the fine white calcium
of tempera and gouache, the heavy carbonate specified by Daler-
textures of acrylics and oils, or Rowney ensures that Designers
anything in between. Caseins are Gouache retains its pure bright
water soluble, but they dry rapidly colour across all 88 colours in the
and become impervious to moisture. range. All colours are intermixable
All Shiva casein colours are to allow the designer to achieve
chemically pure pigments and are a fine degree of colour matching.
permanent to light, gases, alkalis, Daler-Rowney Designers Gouache
and acids. They may be applied on is characterised by its fine flowing

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