‘Ladoga’ is a series of professional artist’ colours at a reasonable price. They are recommended for professional artists who have to be quite price sensitive when choosing the best type of drawing sets for important works at the best value for money. Pigment cost has much influence on the final price of artist’ colours, and ‘Nevskaya Palitra’ is pleased to offer artists a professional product for an advantageous price. We have developed new recipes and formulas of colours that are imitation versions of cadmium, cobalt and other expensive pigments, and, based on them, created the new ‘Ladoga’ set . The new colours have colours and properties similar to their reference standards.

The earth colours (ochre, sienna, umbra and etc.) are based on natural pigments, which translates into the full colour saturation and depth of colour shades.

Acrylic Colours

‘Ladoga’ artist acrylic colours are combinations of pigments and acrylic dispersion. The colours have quite a dense consistency, due to which they can be used in the pastose painting. The stroke does not spread over time, keeping it’s shape well and texture given by the artist. The colours can imitate aerial watercolour technique if they are well diluted with water.

Having good adhesion, the colours can be used for almost any kind of surface (paper, carton, primed canvas, wood, metal, leather, cement). 

Made of high-quality, finely ground pigments on a linseed oil base (the binder is identical to that used in the ‘Master Class’ series), Ladoga oil paints have rich permanent colours with high light-fastness.

Cadmiums and cobalts in the Ladoga series are not real (marked HUE), which also provides some benefits: bright and rich colours with non-toxic chemicals.

Earth colours (ochre, cyan, sienna, and umber) consist of natural pigments providing deep tone unreachable by synthetic pigments.

Thick and heavy-body consistency allows Ladoga paints to last longer with a wide range of use: variety of techniques, including painting with palette knives and wide brush strokes.

Pigment load: up to 26%
Binder: Linseed oil

Ladoga Oils Colour Chart

An excellent student and professional oil paint at a very competitive price!  Learn more about the Ladoga brand here.

This set features a brand new palette design;

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“White Nights” are extra fine watercolours, manufactured using the highest grade of the finest pigment particles plus gum arabic.

Unlike pan watercolours made with the extrusion process, “White Nights” Watercolours are poured—a process preserving the integrity of each pigment and resulting in semi-moist cakes that respond instantly to a wet brush.

“White Nights” full pans are 2.5ml and compare favourably in price with other professional watercolour brands.  This 2.5ml range will typically outprice the 1.5ml (half-pan) ranges of other professional brands – yet the quality is on a par with them.

Key features:

• Pigment load 15-50% (very high for watercolours)
• 3/4 single pigment colours
• Majority of colours have medium or high light-fastness
• Ideal for both wet and dry techniques
• Incredibly rich and strong colours
• Paint looks transparent – even after 7 layers
• Finely dispersed
• Includes gum arabic and honey
• Liquid poured

A comprehensive colour chart is available here that details the colours available in this set.

Innovative developments and sophisticated technologies aimed at producing the highest quality artistic materials have made White Nights watercolours a hallmark of the company both in Russia and abroad.  The paints are made from finely ground pigments and are bound by gum arabic.  The high concentration of pigment ensures an extremely intense colour tone in the paint.  Depth is maintained even when diluted by a large quantity of water.  The pure colors mean that you can mix the paints to obtain a rich range of hues.  Most of the paints are highly light-resistant, ensuring that your works can survive for over 100 years.

Crafty Studio is the first (and only store) to sell these watercolour sets in Ireland.  Learn more about the White Nights brand here.

«Ladoga» series benefits

• Modern high quality pigments
• Traditional binders
• Natural earth colours

Cadmiums and Cobalts in Ladoga series are not real (marked HUE), which also provides some benefits:  they boast bright and rich colours with non-toxic chemicals.  It is an Eco-friendly option for anyone looking for a quality oil paint set in Ireland at an affordable price.

Earth colours (ochre, cyan, sienna, and umber), which is where this paint range really shines,  consist of natural pigments providing deep tone unreachable by synthetic pigments.

Thick and heavy-body consistency allows Ladoga paints to last longer with a wide range of use: variety of techniques, including painting with palette knives and wide brush strokes.

Pigment load: up to 26%
Binder: Linseed oil

Ladoga Oils Colour Chart

Learn more about the Ladoga brand.

About Nevskaya Palitra

For 85 years, the Nevskaya Palitra Artistic Paints Plant has been producing high-quality products for professional artists and art lovers. Today we are the only Russian company with a full cycle of production of professional art materials.

The enterprise was founded in 1934 – based at the small paints and coatings factory built by Julius Friedlander, the English technologist in 1900 on the embankment of the river Chernaya. On December 1, 1934, in accordance with the order of G.K. Ordzhonikidze, the Leningrad Artistic Paints Plant of the All-Russian Association of the paints and coatings industry entered the list of operating factories.

The Nevskaya Palitra Plant produces a wide range of products, including watercolours, oil, tempera, and acrylics paints, gouache, products for children’s crafts, as well as additional materials for painting, and decorative and applied arts. Product line choice depends on the creative task that a painter sets himself/herself.

Interested in art classes?

Learn to paint your dream painting from a master.  Kevin McSherry is a Dublin-based artist and illustrator.  He offers art classes at Christchurch and art classes over Zoom.

Characteristics:

• high quality pigments that includes earth colours;
• cadmium and cobalt pigments;
• fine-grained colours with high concentration of pigment;
• the main part of the palette consists of single pigments and light-fast colours;
• pure and deep colours, unique and inimitable tints.
• excellent value professional grade acrylic gift set

A comparison with oil paint:

• Acrylic is water-soluble, does not require any special fluids, and can be easily washed away from brushes with water;
• In comparison with oil colours, acrylic does not smell which is a plus when working indoors;
• The drying time of a thin layer of oil paint can take a week on average; by comparison, a thin acrylic colour layer dries approximately in half an hour.

Learn more about the Master Class brand.

A comparison with oil paint:

• Acrylic is water-soluble, does not require any special fluids, and can be easily washed away from brushes with water;
• In comparison with oil colours, acrylic does not smell which is a plus when working indoors;
• The drying time of a thin layer of oil paint can take a week on average; by comparison, a thin acrylic colour layer dries approximately in half an hour.

Learn more about the Decola brand.

Gouache, like watercolour, is water-soluble colour based on gum arabic. However, in contrast to the transparent quality of watercolours, one of the most valuable properties of gouache is high opacity – the ability of colour to overcoat underlying layers.  This ‘Master-Class’ gouache art gift set is distinguished by perfect covering ability and paint layer density.  The paint layer becomes matt velvety after drying.  All these properties allow using it in serious art and graphic works.

Learn more about the Master Class brand here.

Cobra Study water mixable oil paint gives the same fantastic results as traditional oil paints: the same brush stroke and hardly any change in colour as time goes by. And yet with Cobra Study you can paint at an affordable price. This is because we offer only the basic colours and use less pigment than in the Cobra Artist series.

Colour Chart with detailed information about lightfastness and pigment can be found here.

Cobra Study water mixable oil paint gives the same fantastic results as traditional oil paints: the same brush stroke and hardly any change in colour as time goes by. And yet with Cobra Study you can paint at an affordable price. This is because we offer only the basic colours and use less pigment than in the Cobra Artist series.

Colour Chart with detailed information about lightfastness and pigment can be found here.

This general selection basic set includes 10x20ml tubes in the following colours: Titanium White (105), Azo Yellow Light (268), Azo Yellow Deep (270), Azo Red Medium (393), Quinacridone Rose (366), Ultramarine (504), Cerulean Blue Phthalo (535), Permanent Green Deep (619), Burnt Umber (409), Ivory Black (701).

Colour Chart with detailed information about lightfastness and pigment can be found here.