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

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.