Artists Quality

Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer Pencils

Student Quality

Stabilo Aquacolour Pencils

Professional or Student Quality?

In the UK the quality of colour products is roughly divided into three groups :-

Professional Grade - traditionally known as Artists Quality the better makers have always called their top grade colours 'Artists' quality. Artists quality colours sold at Newcastle Arts Centre is always the best of that make and are priced to reflect the quality of colour and manufacture. For this reason colours are divided into different price groups or series determined by the cost of the genuine colour or pigment.

Student Grade
These are good quality colours made to a single price range. Expensive pigments are substituted for cheaper colours often named as 'hues', for example ' Cadmium red hue' is a colour that looks like Cadmium Red but does not contain any of that pigment.