COLOUR CHARTS
Colour charts are an essential tool for all artists, allowing them to choose shades based on their appearance and properties. This valuable resource provides detailed information on the composition, characteristics, opacity, and mixability of our colours.
Understanding them ensures precise artistic execution. Explore the colours like a feast for the senses and let your creativity run free.
The Fine Oil Colour Chart
The Lefranc Bourgeois Fine Oil range is available in 48 colours, in both 40ml and 200ml sizes. Combining vibrant colours with highly opaque material, this range includes three exceptional shades—unique primary colours that create remarkably authentic secondary tones.
Download the colour chart for the new Fine Oil range and explore 48 pigment-rich, intense shades.
The Extra-Fine Oil Colour Chart
Formulated with raw, high-precision oils, each colour has a firm, smooth, and non-greasy consistency. Depending on the chemical nature of the pigments, the colours are made exclusively with linseed or safflower oil, ensuring optimal durability.
The Lefranc Bourgeois Extra-Fine Oil range is produced in Le Mans, France, offering exceptional intensity thanks to the richness and quality of its pigments, ground with the utmost respect for tradition. The resulting pastes are extremely fine, homogeneous, and remarkably smooth.
This colour chart features 120 shades available in 20ml and 40ml tubes, with 7 colours also offered in 200ml. These exceptional shades provide high coverage and outstanding resistance to light and time.
The Fine Acrylic Colour Chart
Made in France, in Le Mans, the acrylic palette consists of 50 shades with a smooth and homogeneous texture. 23 of these colours are mono-pigmented, allowing artists to easily create their favourite shades with pure, distinct mixes. Formulated with intense pigments and resin, the paint reveals brightness and depth, offering a smooth, satin finish with excellent coverage. It is available in 80ml, 200ml, and 750ml sizes, as well as in sets.
The Linel Gouache Colour Chart
Lefranc Bourgeois gouache is admired for its creamy texture and matte, opaque finish. Its binder is natural gum arabic, derived from acacia, without any additives or fillers, ensuring the intensity, purity, and luminescence of its colours. Made in France, in Le Mans, and featuring 78 triple-ground colours—some patented and developed with great masters such as Henri Matisse—this extra-fine Linel gouache inspires illustrators as well as prestigious designers in jewellery, architecture, fashion, and interior design, all of whom are ambassadors of French elegance.
Reusable once dry (just mix with water), gouache is also a highly economical paint!
The Flashe Colour Chart
Flashe combines the matte finish and opacity of gouache with the indelibility and durability of acrylic on all surfaces, making it the premier alternative to traditional art materials. Originally designed in 1954 for opera sets, its velvety, extra-fine texture is highly concentrated with light-resistant pigments. The paint is flexible, fluid, and opaque, with a binder made from a vinyl resin emulsion that allows for dilution and water-based cleaning.
Made in France, in Le Mans, the extra-fine vinyl paint Flashe is available in 76 colours, including 38 mono-pigmented shades that are perfectly compatible with other ranges.
The Watercolour Colour Chart
Watercolour is a paint made from ground pigments bound together, valued for its transparency and luminosity. The origins of watercolour date back to the Middle Ages, though it has been known since ancient Egyptian times. It reached its peak during the Renaissance as an art form. Watercolour is defined as a water-based paint on paper. The gum arabic contained in the paints binds the pigments together, allowing the transparent and luminous effect of the watercolour to appear on the surface. The amount of pigment in the paint allows for varying the intensity of the colour once it is mixed with water.
The Nan-King Chinese Ink Colour Chart
Nan-King Black Chinese Ink is indelible, fluid, and offers excellent longevity. With its deep black tone, it can be used pure for calligraphy and drawing or diluted with water. It is an acrylic ink with black pigment.
There are also Nan-King coloured inks, high-quality drawing inks that are transparent and intense. They retain their brightness and luminosity when dry and over time. A selection of 10 colours allows for a wide range of creative possibilities.
Download the Nan-King Chinese Ink colour chart and discover the 12 rich colours that are light-resistant.
