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Nicker Poster Colour Professional Japanese Gouache - Set of 12 Colours x 20ml

Nicker Poster Colour Professional Japanese Gouache - Set of 12 Colours x 20ml

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Nicker Poster Colour Professional Gouache – The Secret Behind Studio Ghibli's Sceneries
Create your illustrations with the paint that defined the aesthetic of Japanese animation's greatest classics!
If you've ever been captivated by the lush green landscapes and vibrant skies of films like My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away, or The Boy and the Heron, then you already know the power of Nicker Poster Colour. Produced in Japan with the same traditional formula for decades, this professional-quality gouache is the definitive choice of the legendary art directors at Studio Ghibli and the entire anime industry.
Unlike other paints, Nicker Poster Colour combines pure, extremely high-density pigments with a binder of pure, top-quality gum arabic. The result is an incredibly opaque paint with a velvety matte finish and incomparable fluidity, allowing for perfectly smooth color transitions (gradients).
Why is Nicker Poster Colour unique?
  • The Legacy of Japanese Animation: It is the official standard of the animation industry for hand-painting backgrounds.
  • Premium Gum Arabic Binder: Forget the chalky, brittle texture of school gouaches. Nicker's formula glides on paper like velvet.
  • Unsurpassed Opacity and Coverage: Flat, matte, reflection-free colors, ideal for photography, scanning, and complementary digital illustration.
  • Reactivatable Paint: Even after drying on the palette, simply add a drop of water to reactivate the paint and continue painting, avoiding any waste.
  • Total Versatility: Can be used pure for total opacity (design gouache style) or diluted with water to create transparent effects identical to watercolor.
Choose your Set:
  • Set of 12 Colors (20ml Tubes): The essential basic palette. Perfect for students and artists who want to master color theory and create their own mixtures from fundamental primary colors and earth tones.
  • Set of 18 Colors (20ml Tubes): The ideal balance. Adds vibrant secondary tones and convenient colors widely used for vegetation and skies, streamlining the landscape painting process.
  • Set of 24 Colors (20ml Tubes): The illustrators' favorite palette. Offers an expanded range that includes Nicker's famous luminous and fluorescent tones (such as the iconic Opera and Magenta), perfect for dramatic light effects.
  • Set of 36 Colors (20ml Tubes): The complete professional experience. A magnificent collection with all the necessary transitional nuances for complex sceneries, minimizing mixing time and ensuring tonal consistency in large projects.
Click on the product photos to view colors, individual color code, pigment(s), and lightfastness
Note on Nicker's lightfastness classification: The symbol (★★) indicates good/excellent stability under normal studio conditions, (★☆) indicates moderate resistance (with a tendency to fade in very thin layers or under direct sunlight), and (☆☆) represents fugitive colors that fade easily over time, historically kept in the line due to their vibrancy for scanning and graphic reproduction purposes.
Experience the aesthetic of Japanese animation's greatest classics!
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