Artist’s Selection Case Xpress Color Set

A large collection of self-shading Xpress Color shades held in a case. In a single coat the paint draws into the hollows and stays translucent on the raised spots.

Manufacturer Vallejo
Product EAN9991117359677

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279.96 €
231.37 € without VAT
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A case of shades that do their own shading

Xpress Color is a line in which the shade works for you. It is applied in one coat over a light ground and as it dries it draws into the hollows: there it settles saturated, whereas on the raised areas it stays thin and translucent. The resulting tone is therefore not flat but graded from a deep core to a light crest.

How the individual tones differ from one another

In a set of this scope whole families are represented: pale bone and sand tones for cloth and horn, warm yellows and oranges, reds both cool and brick, blues from sky to midnight, greens from grass to dark pine, browns from coffee to cinnamon, and the grays with black that close it off. Neighboring bottles as a rule differ not only in lightness but in temperature too: a red with a blue cast stands next to a red leaning toward orange, because each suits a different surface.

When the shade comes out best

It does its best service on a broken-up surface: on the gathers of a cloak, on scales, on chainmail, on fur. On a large smooth area the drawing has nowhere to show, and so it is more sensible to lay an opaque tone there and add the saturating coat only over it. The lightness of the ground changes the result considerably more than it does with ordinary opaque acrylics: over white the tone comes out clean and bright, over gray it darkens and is damped into a faded position.

The closable case holds the bottles together and a shade is looked up in it by family rather than by the number on the label.

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FAQ

An opaque paint lays a uniform tone across the whole area. Xpress Color is more translucent and as it dries it is led into the hollows, so one coat creates both the shadow and the lighter crest.

A light one. Over white the shade comes out brightest, over gray or sand it darkens and calms down. On a dark ground the tone no longer comes out.

Yes, it commonly serves as a saturating and shading coat over an opaque tone already laid. On a large smooth area that is even the more suitable procedure than applying it straight onto the ground.

The name gives only the collection of paints in the case. Equipment beyond the bottles does not follow from it.

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