This watercolour set includes a calming palette of colours in an abalone shell, along with a travel brush, samples of St Armand handmade paper, and a cotton bag for mess-free storage and travel.
This palette includes 4 colours including:
- Silver
- Ultra Grey
- Violet
- Cream
Each 1/2" pan is loaded with pigment... a little goes a long way! The shell can be used as a palette and carrier.
All paints are handmade in small batches with local Manitoulin honey, wildcrafted tree sap, hand gathered, washed and sifted Manitoulin stone and the finest lightfast pigments.
Abalone shells symbolize a great star that appeared in the sky to guide the Anishinaabe people in their great migrations, prior to European contact. The shell is commonly used to hold a ‘smudge’. A bit of white sage and other plants burned in the shell and their smoke would dispel negative energy before starting your art practice.
About Beam Paints: The result of a multi-generational love of pigment, paint, colour, and innovation, owner and maker, Anong Beam, was taught from a young age how to harvest hematite pigment in the LaCloche mountain range near her home in M'Chigeeng First Nation on Manitoulin Island. Beam Paints draws on her early educations in Indigenous pigment and expands it to encompass all paint traditions. A focus on high quality pigment content creates sublime artist materials, with plastic free packaging.
Lightfast pigments, tree sap, gum arabic, and Manitoulin honey, blend together to create a handmade saturated colour that is a joy to paint with. From thick stripes to fine washes and details, quality is evident in every stroke.