Our Essentials Set contains 3 cool primary colors and 3 warm primary colors. With just these 6 colors, you can mix a huge range of other colors including the secondary oranges, greens and violets. With the wide range of colors from mixing these 6 essential colors in different combinations, you can paint landscapes, still life's, portraits...whatever you choose!
What are "cool" and "Warm" colors?
Colors are either "cool" or "warm" when compared to another color in the same family. For example, Hansa Yellow Light looks slightly more green (cool) next to New Gamboge, which looks more orange/red (warm).
Essential Intro Set contains:
Hansa Yellow Light (cool)
New Gamboge (warm)
Quinacridone Rose (cool)
Pyrrol Scarlet (warm)
Phthalo Blue (GS) (cool)
French Ultramarine Blue (warm)
PrimaTek Set- We make these vibrant, exciting paints from pigments made from minerals such as Amethyst, Hematite and Jadeite. The raw mineral "rocks" we search the world over for, are ground into pigments, mixed with gum Arabic and milled to make our gorgeous watercolor paints! Nearly all PrimaTek paints have granulating properties which gives these watercolors wonderful texture and depth, which some artists have described as being "magical". Discover how they transform into other colors when you mix them with one another and with your other watercolors!
PrimaTek Set contains:
Rhodonite Genuine
Jadeite Genuine
Amethyst Genuine
Mayan Blue Genuine
Piemontite Genuine
Hematite Genuine