Tri-Art High Viscosity - Cobalt Blue

Cobalt Blue is a highly versatile medium-value blue with good opacity and colour saturation. Comprised of genuine Cobalt Aluminate Blue Spinel, our Cobalt Blue has warm, violet leaning undertone. It is an ideal primary blue for traditionalist painters looking to work in a limited palette.

Pigment Code: PB 28
Formula: Single
Pigment Family: Mineral
Opacity: SO
Lightfastness: 4.0
Sheen: SG
Tinting Strength: Low
Staining Strength: partial
Colour Bias: warm

Cobalt Blue is part of Tri-Art High Viscosity Professional Acrylic Paint, a heavy body acrylic with a thick, buttery consistency that holds brushstrokes and palette-knife texture. Built with high pigment loading and a fine grind, it stays bold and clean for impasto, scumbling, and confident brushwork.

Pigment profile: Single pigment colour (PB28). Bias: Warm. Pigment family: Mineral. Semi-opaque handling, a good balance of coverage and depth for layered mixtures and scumbles. Low tinting strength, build your mixtures gradually for softer shifts. Partial staining, typically easier to adjust than strongly staining colours. Lightfastness rating: 4. Sheen: Semi-gloss.

• Pigments: PB28
• Formula: Single
• Opacity: Semi-opaque
• Colour bias: Warm
• Lightfastness: 4
• Sheen: Semi-gloss
• Tinting: Low
• Staining: Partial

Pigment notes: Cobalt Blue is a highly versatile medium-value blue with good opacity and colour saturation. Comprised of genuine Cobalt Aluminate Blue Spinel, our Cobalt Blue has warm, violet leaning undertone.

Great for: Mineral, Landscape.