The best ingredients

Ara uses the finest ingredients, including colour pure, lightfast pigments and a 100% pure non-yellowing acrylic emulsion. The pigments in Ara come from the paint factory of Old Holland Classic Colours. To ensure high quality, the acrylic paint is made there to their own unique recipe.

To ensure this high quality, we constantly test our acrylic paints. The result is a brilliant and highly durable acrylic paint.

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Ara uses the finest ingredients, including colour pure, lightfast pigments and a 100% pure non-yellowing acrylic emulsion. The pigments in Ara come from the paint factory of Old Holland Classic Colours. To ensure high quality, the acrylic paint is made there to their own unique recipe.

To ensure this high quality, we constantly test our acrylic paints. The result is a brilliant and highly durable acrylic paint.

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All pigments used in Ara acrylic paints have lightfastness according to ASTM standards I and II. This means that under museum conditions the colours are lightfast from 50 to 100 years and longer. With the exception of the Neon colours. These are made from lacquered dyes and have a lightfastness according to the ASTM standard of IV which is about 2 to 15 years. Ara acrylic paint is highly pigmented and the pigments are very finely ground. Because of this, the tinting strength is very high. All pigments come from the paint factory of Old Holland. The Ara range consists of opaque, semi-opaque and transparent colours.

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Our metallic and pearl colours have two types of colour effect: regular colour effect and mirrored colour effect.

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In ordinary coloring, part of the light is absorbed. The part that is reflected back determines the color. When you see red, blue and yellow are absorbed.

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With mirrored colouring, the pigments form the basis of this colouring.

They are:

Metallic pigments: very small flat pieces of silver, bronze and gold pigment particles reflect light and give a typical shine to the colour.

Iridizing pigments: the pigment is applied to tiny plates. This reflects light and gives the colour a "metallic" sheen.

Interference pigments: a very thin titanium dioxide is applied to mica platelets. Light is now partly reflected by the surface of the mica and partly by the surface of the titanium dioxide particle. The two different light rays are out of phase and they interfere to form light with a different frequency, causing a colour to appear. This colour is strongest on a dark surface and at a certain angle.

Our metallic and pearl colours have two types of colour effect: regular colour effect and mirrored colour effect.

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In ordinary coloring, part of the light is absorbed. The part that is reflected back determines the color. When you see red, blue and yellow are absorbed.

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With mirrored colouring, the pigments form the basis of this colouring.

They are:

Metallic pigments: very small flat pieces of silver, bronze and gold pigment particles reflect light and give a typical shine to the colour.

Iridizing pigments: the pigment is applied to tiny plates. This reflects light and gives the colour a "metallic" sheen.

Interference pigments: a very thin titanium dioxide is applied to mica platelets. Light is now partly reflected by the surface of the mica and partly by the surface of the titanium dioxide particle. The two different light rays are out of phase and they interfere to form light with a different frequency, causing a colour to appear. This colour is strongest on a dark surface and at a certain angle.