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Explore how we handcraft our professional watercolours and discover stories behind the pigments and colour

image shows an open paint tin with six pans of watercolour paint. Scattered around the tin are found natural objects that reflect the autumnal colours or red, orange , yellows and brown of the set.

Autumn Colour palette

Art Scribe’s Warm Autumn colour palette has been created from our hand-made watercolours to help you celebrate the season. Here’s the inspiration behind the colours Before winter pares everything back, autumn gives us one last glorious show of

Earth & Alchemy: The Beauty of Natural and Synthetic Pigments in Handmade Watercolours

Discover the differences between natural earth and synthetic pigments in our watercolour paints—exploring characteristics, and artistic impact.

watercolour mixing with cobalt blue

Explore the colour range when mixing Cobalt Blue Medium and Cobalt Turquoise with Art Scribe yellows.

Prussian Blue watercolour painting with Art Scribe. Image shows a mixing palette with blue watercolour paint, a paint brush, cubes of handmade watercolour paint and a colour mixing chart with Prussian Blue mixed with black and burnt umbre.

Watercolour Investigations: Prussian Blue

Discover how Prussian Blue is made in our paint making studio. We investigate its properties as a watercolour with colour mixing tips

Art Scribe handmade watercolour. Image show a view inside Art Scribe studio. Various bottles, coloured pigments tools and equipment crowd a table.

Studio Insights

A peek inside our paint making studio. We share our favourite tools and some secrets behind our process.

Step-by-step guide to painting your own colour mixing chart.

colour mixing charts

Get to know your paints with a colour mixing chart. Read our 4 step guide to painting a chart PLUS download the colour mixing chart template.

Open tin of Japanese Handmade Watercolour Collection by Art Scribe sits on the table with a paintbrush, paint palette and gradients of the six colours.

Historical pigments, six colour stories

Discover the colour stories and historical pigments that make up our Japanese Collection.