Professional Handmade Watercolour
Buff Titanium —
Series 1.
Description
Buff Titanium watercolour is a soft, neutral off-white pigment with a subtle warm tone. Its colour resembles unbleached linen or natural bone, offering a creamy, grounding base that brings balance and warmth to your watercolour paintings. This artist-grade pigment is naturally opaque, allowing for smooth, delicate washes or bold, solid layering with gentle texture.
This handmade watercolour paint is ideal for soft highlights, muted backgrounds, and naturalistic blending. In landscape painting, Buff Titanium evokes sandy beaches, pale stone, and weathered driftwood. When mixed with brighter pigments, it softens intense hues without muting their vibrancy — perfect for creating earthy tones and subtle transitions.
The pigment's low granulation adds a touch of visual interest without overpowering the composition. Its subtle warmth and neutral character make Buff Titanium a reliable and versatile paint for any professional or beginner watercolour palette.
Mixing Suggestions
Buff Titanium is a natural mixer — it softens, warms, and grounds. Here are four combinations worth keeping on your palette.
Mix 1
Buff Titanium + French Ultramarine
A quiet, dusty stone grey — perfect for aged architecture, overcast skies, and cool shadows in landscape work. The warmth of the Buff gently softens the Ultramarine's intensity without killing its depth.
Mix 2
Buff Titanium + Burnt Sienna
Warm sandy earth tones ranging from pale terracotta to rich sandstone. Ideal for desert landscapes, weathered wood, dried grasses, and naturalistic skin undertones.
Mix 3
Buff Titanium + Raw Umber
A muted, earthy neutral — the palette equivalent of undyed linen. Excellent for toning down overly bright mixtures, painting dried botanicals, and building soft textured washes in wildlife or botanical work.
Mix 4
Buff Titanium + Payne's Grey
A warm, softened grey with far more life than a straight neutral. Use it for misty morning atmospheres, soft cloud forms, or as a tinted ground wash to take the stark white off your paper before painting.
Product Information
| Pigment | Titanium Dioxide |
|---|---|
| Pigment C.I. Number | PW 6:1 |
| Series | 1 |
| Lightfastness | AAA — Excellent |
| Opacity | Opaque |
| Granulation | Low |
| Staining | Non-Staining |
Regulatory & Safety Information
We Recommend
Use distilled water with all our handmade watercolours to maintain pigment purity and achieve the best results.
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Care & Storage
Part of our Finest Professional Watercolour range.