Granulating watercolors are becoming increasingly important in watercolor painting. The surface effect here differs somewhat from the normal flowing watercolors. The colors appear mottled, and it is precisely this effect that is desired for certain techniques. So what is behind the term granulate?

Granulation is the property of pigments to clump together in places on the paper. This has two causes: heavy pigment particles, such as cobalt or manganese, settle in the paper valleys. Light pigment particles cluster together due to attraction. In general, it can be said that many traditional pigments (cobalt, earths, etc.) tend to granulate more than modern inorganic pigments. This also explains why Schmincke has comparatively many granulating shades in some color ranges (e.g. blue or brown shades) and no or hardly any granulating shades in other ranges (yellow and red shades).

Supergranulating colors are watercolor paints with a special property: the combination of at least 2 granulating Horadam pigments intensifies this effect to "supergranulation". The shades are composed with pigments from different color ranges, resulting in additional color changings besides the granulating effect. For example, the shade "Deep Sea Indigo" is a combination of violet and green pigments, while "Glacier Brown" contains a brown and a green pigment. This novel structure formation of the colors varies depending on the substrate and the amount of water used. The rougher the paper, the stronger the granulation effect. All super-granulating Horadam watercolor inks have exclusively 4 and 5 star light fastness and contain largely pigments already known from Horadam. The opacity of the color shades is predominantly semi-transparent/semi-opaque. The super-granulating shades can also be used in combination with all 139 Horadam Watercolor shades as well as all Academy Watercolor shades.

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