Beam Paints - Northern Lights Watercolour Set

$68.00  

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Our first collection of ethical mica colours!  Bring a spark to your palette these 100 percent pigment and binder watercolours sourced from Georgia USA.

Colours: Mica Gold, Beach Sand, Shell, Glacial Rivers, Wet Grizzly, and Wintery Night.

Set includes...

  • 6 handmade, plastic-free watercolour paintstones
  • 1 beeswaxed cloth - reuse it for travelling with your paints!

 

Alternatively - try out these colours with a Northern Lights Travel Card! You get a small sample of each colour on a piece of handmade paper - just add water and you're ready to go! Also great for travelling or sending in a letter!

 

Beam Paints is the result of a multi-generational love of pigment, paint, colour, and innovation. I was raised by my artist parents, Carl Beam and Ann Beam, and was taught from a young age how to harvest hematite pigment in the LaCloche mountain range near our home in M'Chigeeng First Nation on Manitoulin Island. Beam Paints draws on my early educations in Indigenous pigment and expands it to encompass all paint traditions. A focus on high quality pigment content creates sublime artist materials, with plastic free packaging.

Lightfast pigments, tree sap, gum arabic, and Manitoulin honey, blend together to create a handmade  saturated colour that is a joy to paint with. From thick stripes to fine washes and details, quality is evident in every stroke. Our watercolours are shaped into paintstones, our version of a half-pan, before being wrapped in beeswaxed canvas. Our pans are packaged in slices of cedar and birch offcuts from an Indigenous sustainable lumber operation.

We manufacture and ship all our colours from our family workshops in M’Chigeeng First Nation on beautiful Manitoulin Island in Lake Huron one of the five Great Lakes in Ontario, Canada!

Made sustainably in Ontario, Canada.