Rêves d'Aquarelle | Watercolour sets — 6 x half pans

To respect the rules of the art and promote traditional know-how, Rêves d'Aquarelle has chosen to work with extra-fine mineral or organic pigments carefully selected for their origin, light stability, colouring, covering power and non-toxicity.

The pigments are carefully measured out, mixed and ground. They are mixed, crushed and ground with meticulous care, using a homemade binder made from the finest quality gum arabic, from Kordofan, and artisanal honey, an excellent preservative that enhances the luminosity and brilliance of the colours. The grinding stage is decisive in preserving the purity of the pigment. The binder and pigment become one during this long phase that creates the watercolour. The colours produced are intense, rich and highly pigmented, yet unctuous, fluid and easy to reactivate.

Some shades are pearlescent with mica. The harmonies in the sets are the result of a long process of balancing different intensities, luminosities and shades to enrich and give even more character to the palette of colours on offer.

The following Rêves d'Aquarelle Watercolour 6 x half pans sets are available:

• 29353 = On the water, containing: Tree frog, a very acidic, very vivid green. well pigmented and semi-transparent ○ Weeping willow, a greyish olive green, like the underside of its leaves, slightly grainy ○ River, a blue-green, very pigmented and very deep thanks to the grey it contains, ideal for washes ○ Dragonfly, a saturated vivid green. slightly pearly to evoke the changing shades of the wings of this beautiful insect (mica mother-of-pearl) ○ Trout, a warm pinkish silver. changing like the scales of this fish (mica mother-of-pearl) ○ Kingfisher, a highly pigmented, pearly phthalo blue, which evokes the play of light on the feathers of this bird (mica mother-of-pearl)
• 29356 = Gourmet treats, containing: Dragée, a soft, very slightly bluish pink ○ Chantilly, an extremely luminous cold pearly white (mica base) ○ Marshmallow, a soft, semi-transparent parma that lives up to its name ○ Almond, a soft, tender green like the velvety skin that covers it when it is fresh ○ Vanilla, a transparent, very luminous pale yellow reminiscent of custard ○ Sorbet, a luminous, delicious apricot shade
• 29347 = City garden, containing: Lupin, a superb, highly pigmented indigo with a touch of mother-of-pearl ○ Amethyst, sweet pea, deep purplish purple with very light garnet mother-of-pearl highlights ○ Glycine, between parma and light violet with silver mother-of-pearl highlights ○ Hosta, blue-green with glaucous highlights ○ Agapanthus, soft blue with light pearly highlights ○ Delphinium, lavender blue with deep parma pearl highlights
• 29348 = Country garden, containing: Peony, a soft, fresh pearly pink ○ Clematis, a unique old pearly purple pink ○ Lilac, a purplish mauve enriched with parma pink and bluish highlights ○ Molucella, a bright, lively lime green softened by mother-of-pearl ○ Digitalis, a bright, intense pearly pink with a slight purplish hue ○ Hawthorn, a crimson pink revealing golden highlights
• 29349 = Cottage garden, containing: Hollyhock, pale flesh pink with soft golden pearlescence ○ Eremurus, salmon pink with a golden pearlescent red undertone ○ Poppy, salmon pink with silver highlights ○ Alchemilla, aniseed green softened by silvery pearlescent highlights ○ Honeysuckle, apricot pink with soft golden highlights ○ Tea rose, very subtle buff apricot orange
• 29350 = Winter in the Highlands, containing: Wild salmon, a light salmon-orange gently pearlescent with silver ○ Frosted heather, a pretty greyish pink illuminated with gold that recalls the soft, luminous colour of this endemic plant when it lights up the hills in the winter light ○ Shetland, the evocation of the spring scilla that waits until the end of winter to cover the archipelago in its delicate purplish blue with subtle golden reflections ○ Isle of Skye, a sublime, icy, crystalline turquoise that evokes the Fairy Pools, a succession of small waterfalls and pools of transparent water ○ Loch, a version of Payne's grey, somewhere between dark blue and dark grey, as deep as the Scottish lochs ○ Glen, a magnificent burnished khaki that is slightly grainy, somewhere between the colour of heather and lichen
• 36668 = Autumnal scents, containing: Hot chocolate ○ Moss carpet ○ Press ○ Apple loft ○ Petrichor ○ Porcini mushroom basket
• 36673 = Sublime barks- striated, cracked or smooth, shiny or matt, two-toned or multicoloured, they are sumptuously beautiful. These six pearlescent jewels in mica, are shades of pink and gold. Containing: Pinus ponderosa ○ Betula utilis ○ Manzanita pungens ○ Eucalyptus globulus ○ Acer griseum ○ Prunus serrula

Price per set.