Are Spectralite Liquid Acrylics or Hydrus Fine Art Watercolor an ink or a dye?
Spectralite and Hydrus are both made with Fine Art pigments. They are Lightfast Fine artist pigments. The same type of pigments used in tube watercolor and tube or paste acrylic. There is no dye in these products. Many artists mistake the word ink as a type of colorant. It is a generic term for a liquid color which can be either a dye or a pigment, (waterproof, water resistant, or water soluble).
