Came across another one I've never heard of: Divolo. They're made in Florence, Italy.
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Hullo Miranda, I am still touting DaVinci as the best brand made in America! From reasonable cost, ease of shipping, Simply the best customer service I have ever experienced! The handmade brand of most recent note is Italy’s A.Gallo. Consistent and well made too. I have only used Beam paint once at a friend’s gathering, it was nice, but the wood plank kinda put me off. It did flow quite nicely and was very pigmented! I must have over 40 tubes of M.Graham and I have only made one palette of 36 colors and used it twice before putting it on a shelf and not reaching for it again. Sad. Good luck gathering up a good collection!
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I like Maimeri Blu, a traditional Italian company. They reformulated their 91 colours to be single pigment. 😍 On small batch side, Kremer Pigmente. They make Pigments and out of these they make watercolours. It's top quality. Family run (the Kremers 👍🏼) and in a small Bavarian village. I took a course on paint making with them there, with the one person that makes all their watercolours. They have a store in NY and you can buy from them. They are world known for producing pigments and materials for art conservation. Top quality stu
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I've heard a lot of good things about Greenleaf and Blueberry but boy are they expensive. Same for Stoneground but I think you might have tried some but it might be the Beam paints you tried. All out of my league. Waiting breathlessly to hear about the ones from Thailand you bought with your Christmas money. Also hoping you might pop a few President's Day goodies on here.:face-red-heart-shape:
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Stoneground. I love their Earth palette (the 14 x pan size) and their Landscape palette (also 14 x pan size). Definitely a more expensive brand, but they are a hand-made paint. I love them.
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Da Vinci are my favorite brand all around, but I love my specialty colors from Della Magna, they're so fun to work with
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Good morning. Most unique I’d have to say are Prodigal Sons and Della Magna. 31Purplefish are excellent and I have an assortment but I’ve given up buying any more because I don’t have the patience or time to hover over their site to see what’s available. I have way too many different brands in my collection and have committed myself to not buy any more simply because I want/need to use what I have. Through painting with them all, I’ve narrowed my favorites to Michael Harding (they ARE that good), Qor and Roman Szmal. DaVinci, M Graham and Daniel Smith are my next favorite big brands. There are other small brands often mentioned that I don’t think are as great as they’re made out to be, but that’s just my opinion. Of the big brands the one that disappoints me most is Schminke. Their half-pans are disturbingly small for the price and tho I have several sets they’re not a brand I would purchase again, and if I did then only in tubes. I really need to downsize my collection as the only brands I’d want to expand are Michael Harding and my two favorite “uniques” mentioned above. If you name a brand they are probably somewhere in my stash and not being used, sadly. A little off your question but helped me clarify my own thoughts, lol. 🙃
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I keep seeing European creators use watercolors from deep deep light. They're a small, but professional-looking operation in the Latvian countryside. Not sure if many American creators have featured them yet
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Derwent came out with watercolor pans last year I believe. I don’t hear too much about them.
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I stand by my Rosa Gallery and I love Addison and Sedgewick for homemade with very interesting colors. Also, Rosa is releasing a professional line of gouache this year. Super excited about that! For unique, have you tried Art of Soil? They are not like regular watercolors but interesting from a geological, made from the earth kind of way.
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Here's one that you can purchase in the US... Kremer Pigment. They have a physical store in Manhattan!
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The Koh-I-Noor Anilinky (brilliant) stackable watercolors are very different and fun. They're more like inks in cake form, but they're incredibly vivid and transparent. Just make sure it's the "brilliant" version because they have other, lesser quality, paints that come in the same stackable format.
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Yet another boutique watercolor brand: Lilian May, from the UK. Very handmade, boutique aesthetic. All packaging is plastic free, so all colors come in tiny little speckled ceramic palettes.
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Another one: Nila Colori. (I'm watching a video from Illustrazioni da Lut where he visits a European art supply trade show, so I might be back with more names! Sorry for the spam!)
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Miranda Watson - Alkali Creek Art
What are some unique and great quality watercolor brands? I'm talking brands like Beam, Boulder, etc. Shoot me a comment below with some of your favorites!
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