A. Gallo : Handmade Watercolor Paint : Sinopia Palette : Metal Tin 12 Half Pans with Brush in a gift box

<p>The A. Gallo Sinopia Palette Metal Tin Set of 12 Half Pans is a special edition assortment of natural Mediterranean tones inspired by classical drawing traditions.</p><p>By nature beautiful and harmonic, this timeless palette includes foundational colors for painting and drawing - ideal for painting architecture, nature studies, figure drawing, and urban sketching. The historical ochres, siennas, umbers and neutrals included, compose a limited palette often used for preparatory, unfinished and informal studies, freeing the artist to work without the weight of perfection and finality.</p><p>This collection takes its name from Sinopia, an ancient red-brown earth pigment imported to Europe from Cappadocia through the port of Sinop, a Greek colony on the Black Sea. Sinopia was famously used in the Renaissance to make the preparatory drawing for frescoes directly onto the wall. These drawings became simply known as Sinopie.</p><p>A. Gallo Handmade Watercolors have been developed using a contemporary approach to historical color. Made by hand in Assisi, the watercolors are crafted according to a traditional recipe of raw pigment, gum arabic, local honey, rosemary essential oil, and a wetting agent. This artisanal process creates a very pigmented and luminous paint that activates beautifully when wet. The binder is made from pure lumps of Kordofan gum arabic from the Acacia Senegal tree dissolved in distilled water and filtered to remove any impurities. Honey from Umbria is added as a humectant, and rosemary essential oil is added for its natural antifungal properties.</p><p>A. Gallo watercolors are available as individual half pans and in special themed sets. Each half pan is wrapped in watercolor paper with a hand-painted sample brushed over it. The watercolor sets are beautifully packaged with original marbled paper by Florentine artisan workshop Giulio Giannini e Figlio and a color chart printed on Arches watercolor paper. The colors are made by hand in very small batches. The watercolors are cadmium, cobalt, lead, and mercury free.</p><p>Presented in an elegant gift box, the Sinopia set includes a watercolor tin with two mixing surfaces, a color chart printed on Arches watercolor paper, and a synthetic size 6 Kazan series 1327 pocket brush by Tintoretto. This set contains the following colors: Titanium White (PW6), Gold Ochre (PY43), Raw Sienna (PY43) Burnt Sienna Mt. Amiata (PBr7), Venetian Red (PR102), Morellone (PR101), Ultramarine Blue Dark (PB29), Verdaccio (PBr7, PBk11), Green Umber (PBr8), Burnt Umber Brownish (PBr8), Burnt Umber Dark (PBr7), and Roman Black Earth (PBk11).</p><p>For more information about A. Gallo Watercolors, <a href="https://www.jacksonsart.com/blog/2022/04/25/introducing-the-new-a-gallo-handmade-watercolours-naturale-24/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">click here to read our article.</span></a></p>