Winter Japanese Gansai Watercolor Set

One of the possible byproducts of the situation we find ourselves in is a renewed heightened awareness of nature. The song of birds, the silence of the sky, the passing of the seasons have filled the emptiness of time with a welcome rekindling of earth's motherhood and all the meaning that entails, thanks Nature!

Details

Gansai watercolor

Includes 20 colors and a letterpress swatch card

Chiyogami paper box

Non-toxic

Made in Japan

Color Breakdown:

50 - Ochiba-cha - Fallen leaves tea
139 - Honai - True indigo

53 - Fuji-murasaki - A deep, royal purple named after the spectacular Japanese Wisteria.
208 - Amairo - Flax

12 - Gofun - White; this refers to the traditional white pigment made from crushed shells. 66 - Paaru Midori - Pearlescent green
44 - Gunroku - Mixed green - traditionally this pigment is made of a mixture of azurite and malachite.
11 - Kuro - Black
220 - Ruri-iro - Lapis lazuli blue
204 - Mizu-iro - Light blue; literally ‘water colour’
64 - Paaru-ao - Pearlescent blue

221 - Tokiwa-iro - Evergreen; this colour in traditional Japanese refers to the longevity and unchanging nature of evergreen leaves, seen as good luck in Edo period Japan.
24 - Kodai-Rokusho - Ancient verdigris - green is traditionally associated in Japan with matcha tea and the ever important tea ceremony.
222 - Aoi-iro - Named after the light purple mallow flower, traditionally used in Japanese medicines.
25 - Shinsha - Cinnabar
22 - Kogecha - Charred tea
23 - Gin-nezu - Light grey; literally ‘silver mouse’
36 - Kin-oudoiro - Golden ochre
2 - Oudo - Ochre; perhaps the oldest pigment, found globally in prehistoric cave paintings - synthetic alternatives to the natural pigment are more frequently used today, as in this instance. 216 - Zouge-iro - Ivory

60 - Gin - Silver

Choosing Keeping presents 4 palettes depicting each season, having picked out (in a way by no means prescriptive or exhaustive) some colours of leaves, trees, flowers, and feelings propriertary to winter, spring, summer and winter. There is no overlap in terms of colours between the 4 season sets, each set includes 20 distinct colours. Also consider Swiss painter Johannes Itten's (1888 – 1967) seasonal colour theory - four colour palettes for four types of people each under the sun of a different season - a sort of painter's Yin and Yang if you will.

Included is a blank letterpress swatch card featuring each individual colour name to be painted in for colour referencing. This can come in handy as appearances can be deceiving and each colour is only revealed once wet and set to paper!

$95.00

Winter Japanese Gansai Watercolor Set

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