Founded in 1862, Lucas is almost Germany's oldest pigment brand, and its father's father owned the "largest and oldest art store in the industry" in 1902, and is now part of the FILA Group, along with Murray.
 
Today, Lucas's pigment production has been thoroughly integrated with modern industry. The Aquarell 1862 series is Lucas's artist-quality watercolor, all the pigments used in it are evenly ground by the machine to 2 μm, although there is no specific particle size for each color, but the grinding is very uniform, ready for a strong diffusion ability.
 
Lucas Watercolor's adhesive is not made of gum arabic like other brands, but dextrin is extracted from gum arabic, and combined with a special glucose derivative, the adhesion is not as good as that of pure gum arabic. Therefore, Lucas's watercolor is very easy to dip into, and it spreads widely, but adding too much water can lead to unevenness, which is not as good as Merry Blue, which is made for wet painting. Due to the high binder content, the pigment is diluted, and the color rendering is not strong even at the artist level.
 
Lucas's pigment performance is also relatively average, Aquarell 1862 series of 70 colors, there are 22 kinds of mixed pigment pigments, 12 kinds of non-durable pigments, such pigments are mostly mixed by 3-4 kinds of pigments, the purity is not high, the saturation is not high. The artist-grade tube is only a 24ml large bottle, which costs 35-45 yuan, which is comparable to the price of the whole watercolor block and matches the performance.
 
The Aquarell Studio series is Lucas's academy watercolor, and the Aquarell 1862 series has a downgraded version of the pigment and grinding accuracy, with a total of 24 colors, which still has the defect of light color, and is almost unpopular in Europe, America and Asia in the face of cost-effective artists.