The Stoneground Paint Co. crafts its watercolour paint by combining finely ground particles of pigment with a binder made from water, gum arabic, and wildflower honey. Watercolour paint is an artist’s medium noted for its transparency and the wide range of effects which can be achieved with its use. A range of pigments from modern to mineral, traditional to pearlescent, are used in the creation of our handmade paint offering watercolour artists an array of vibrant colours to choose from.
Modern Series
Our modern colours consist of pigments developed after 1704 with the accidental discovery of Prussian Blue. The rapid development of synthetic pigments and dyes have given artists a veritable rainbow of to choose from. All of the modern colours in Stoneground’s line-up are lightfast, permanent, and non-toxic.
Traditional Colours
The pigments used in the creation of our Traditional Colours are ones that have been used by artists for hundreds, and in some cases, thousands, of years. These are primarily inorganic pigments such as iron oxides, green earths, and the popular umber and sienna pigments of the Renaissance. Also included here are modern interpretations of traditionally used pigments such as Zinc and Titanium White (which replaced toxic Lead White), and the Mayan pigments (which are modern versions of lightfast and permanent pigments used by civilizations living in Central and South America hundreds of years ago).
Mineral Series
The pigments used in our mineral colours are naturally occurring inorganic pigments whose transparent and granular nature can be used to great effect in watercolour paintings. The outlier in this category is Graphite, which is an organic pigment that is staining, semi-transparent, and carries with it a subtle shimmer.
Metallic and Pearlescent Series
Stoneground’s metallic and pearlescent watercolours are made from lightfast and permanent mica-based pigments that create beautiful shimmering pearlescent effects when applied to paper.
The Stoneground Paint Co. creates its handmade gouache by combining the world’s finest pigments and premium French chalk with a binder made from water, gum arabic, and wildflower honey. Gouache differs from watercolour in that it is defined as an opaque layer of colour, where watercolour is noted for its transparency. Gouache is often used over watercolour to suggest highlights, and is also noted for its matte, opaque finish when used on its own.
Modern Colours
We define our modern colours as those developed and discovered after 1704, which was when the accidental discovery of Prussian Blue occurred. The colours we classify as such contain organic and inorganic pigments and are typically characterized by their intense and bright appearance.
Traditional Colours
Our traditional colours have been used by artists for hundreds, and in some cases, thousands of years. These are primarily inorganic pigments such as iron oxides, green earths, as well as the popular umber and sienna pigments of the Renaissance. In some instances, the modern equivalent of a traditional pigment has been included here, for example, Titanium White, which has replaced toxic Lead White in artist’s materials.
Designer Series
Stoneground’s Designer Colours have been developed with convenience in mind and are a collection of ready-made gouache in a rainbow of hues.
Flourescent Series
Stoneground’s Fluorescent Colours offer bright, intense neon hues perfect for capturing special effects in watercolour paintings or in gouache. These colours offer the greatest intensity when used on white paper. Fluorescent pigments are not lightfast and will eventually lose their intensity.
Warm Botanical Palette
Stoneground’s Warm Botanical Palette was inspired by our love of botanicals and florals, and is a collection of colours perfect for creating bright, vivid watercolour paintings. Combine Hansa Yellow and Marigold Orange for intense, summer golds, or blend Hooker’s Green and Dioxazine Purple to create dramatic shadows and foliage.
Our Warm Botanical Palette contains six half pans of our handmade watercolour paint in a hinged metal tin. Measuring approximately 2 1/2” x 2”, this compact size is ideal for travel and plein air painting.
Colours Included: Hansa Yellow (PY 74), Marigold Orange (PO 34), Scarlet (PR 112), Ultramarine Rose (PR 259), Dioxazine Purple (PV 23), Hooker’s Green (PG 7)
Cool Botanical Palette
Stoneground’s Cool Botanical Palette was inspired by our love of botanicals and florals, but its mixing capabilities make it perfect for all types of subject matter. This palette blends to create a variety of dark, late-summer greens, autumn oranges, and winter browns. Beyond botanicals, this palette is a wonderful choice for sunsets and skies. Combine Quinacridone Red and Mayan Green Deep for a deep purple that works for silhouettes and landscapes.
Our Cool Botanical Palette contains six half pans of our handmade watercolour paint in a hinged metal tin. Measuring approximately 2 1/2” x 2”, this compact size is ideal for travel and plein air painting.
Colours Include: Hansa Yellow Light (PY 3), Quinacridone Red (PV 19), Manganese Violet (PV 16), Ultramarine Blue (PB 29), Phthalo Green Blue Shade (PG 7), Mayan Green Deep (P N/A)
Night Garden Palette
Stoneground’s Night Garden Palette was inspired by our love of florals and botanicals and is one of our most versatile palettes, useful in everything from landscapes, to still-life and portrait work. This collection of colour is perfect for creating low-key backgrounds and bright, high-key foregrounds, jewel-tone florals and botanicals, interesting skin tones, and dramatic landscapes.
Our Night Garden Palette contains six half pans of our handmade watercolour paint in a hinged metal tin. Measuring approximately 2 1/2” x 2”, this compact size is ideal for travel and plein air painting.
Colours Included: Gamboge (PY 150), Pozzuoli Earth Red (PR 102), Quinacridone Magenta (PR 122), Manganese Violet (PV 16), Prussian Blue (PB 27), Hooker’s Green (PG 7)
Earth Palette
Stoneground’s Earth Palette was inspired by coastal landscapes and atmospheric skies. This collection of colour gives an aged, vintage look to sketches and studies, while creating a variety of interesting colour combinations. Our Earth Palette is a great compliment to existing Stoneground collections, and works beautifully for landscape, still life, illustration, and botanical subject matter.
Our Earth Palette contains six half pans of our handmade watercolour paint in a hinged metal tin. Measuring approximately 2 1/2” x 2”, this compact size is ideal for travel and plein air painting.
Colours Included: Golden Ochre (PY 43), Caput Mortuum (PR 101), Mayan Indigo Blue (P N/A), Mayan Green Deep (P N/A), Chromium Oxide Green (PG 17), Titanium Buff (PW 6:1)
Prairie Earth Palette
A collection of colour that captures the essence of North America’s rolling prairies, our Prairie Earth Palette blends to create a wide range of colours that are perfect for everything from wildlife to landscapes. Use Lemon Ochre to capture an expansive wheat field, and Raw Umber Green Shade for barn board, fence posts, and fertile soil. Nicosia Green Earth is a soft green wonderful for prairie sage and grasses, while Mayan Royal Blue and Armenian Purple Ochre are perfect for rendering atmospheric skies. Combine Genuine Indian Red and Armenian Purple for colours that mimic the drama found in a prairie sunset.
Stoneground’s Prairie Earth Palette contains six half pans of our handmade watercolour paint in a hinged metal tin. Measuring approximately 2 1/2” x 2”, this compact size is ideal for travel and plein air painting.
Palette contains: Lemon Ochre (PY 43), India Red (PR 101), Armenian Purple Ochre (PR 102), Mayan Royal Blue (P N/A), Nicosia Green Earth (PG 23), Raw Umber Green Shade (PBr 7)
Historic Palette
Stoneground’s Historic Palette was inspired by the colours used by artists long before the advent of synthetic pigments, back to a time when artists created their own paints. These pigments were traditionally mined from the earth, and are some of the most permanent, lightfast, and durable pigments available to artists today. This palette is a wonderful choice for artists who enjoy portrait work as these colours can be used to great effect for skin tones. Use this collection to add a vintage feel to any creative work, or use it for unique tonal studies, and to supplement other watercolour collections.
Our Historic Palette contains six half pans of our handmade watercolour paint in a hinged metal tin. Measuring approximately 2 1/2” x 2”, this compact size is ideal for travel and plein air painting.
Palette Contains: Lemon Ochre (PY 43), Raw Sienna Warm Shade (PBr 7), Pozzuoli Earth Red (PR 102), Nicosia Green Earth (PG 23), Florentine Green (PG 17), Raw Umber Dark Neutral (PBr 7)
Spring Palette
Stoneground’s Spring Palette is a collection of colour perfect for a variety of subject matter including sunny landscapes, brilliant florals, elegant botanicals and cheerful still life paintings.
Artist’s Notes: Mix Titanium Buff, Cerulean Blue, and Phthalo Green Yellow Shade for a variety of vivid spring greens. Quinacridone Red and Nickel Titanium Yellow create a range of oranges perfect for botanicals and florals. Use Burnt Sienna Crimson to add shadows into greens and for added warmth, or combine it with Nickel Titanium Yellow for a pretty colour reminiscent of the original Naples Yellow.
Palette Contains: Nickel Titanium Yellow (PY 53), Burnt Sienna Crimson (PBr 7), Quinacridone Red (PR 122), Cerulean Blue (PB 35), Phthalo Green Yellow Shade (PG 36), Titanium Buff (PW 6:1)
Summer Palette
This palette is a wonderful choice for a collection of bright colours with a broad range of uses from abstract work, to landscapes, botanicals, wildlife, and more.
Artist Notes: Combine Hansa Yellow and Phthalo Green Blue Shade to create vibrant tropical greens, or add Manganese Violet to Hansa Yellow in order to create warm brown tones perfect for late summer landscapes. Cobalt Aquamarine pairs beautifully with Phthalo Green and Hansa Yellow to create a range of cool colours from turquoise green through lime. Mix Marigold Orange with Hansa Yellow combine to create peach tones perfect for florals, or blend Manganese and Scarlet for dusty violets that are perfect for sunsets.
Stoneground’s Summer Palette Contains: Hansa Yellow (PY 74), Marigold Orange (PO 34), Pyrrole Red (PR 254), Manganese Violet (PV 16), Cobalt Aquamarine (PB 36), Phthalo Green Blue Shade (PG 7)
Autumn Palette
Stoneground’s Autumn Palette is a collection of colours perfect for florals, botanicals, landscapes and wildlife. This palette is useful for mixing the bright colours found in early autumn, while easily allowing the dull and moody tones of late fall.
Artist Notes: Combine Gamboge with Hooker’s Green or Mayan Indigo Blue for beautiful greens to blend throughout early autumn landscapes. Mayan Red mixed with Mayan Indigo or Roman Black creates moody autumn darks perfect for adding drama. India Yellow and Mayan Red create stunning orange hues that are effective for landscapes, florals, and botanicals.
Palette Contains: Gamboge (PY 150), India Yellow (PY 139), Mayan Red (P N/A), Mayan Indigo Blue (P N/A), Hooker’s Green (PG 7), Roman Black (PBk 11)
Winter Palette
Stoneground’s Winter Palette is a collection of warm and cool colours that mix well, resulting in a versatile palette that is effective for painting everything from dramatic Dutch-inspired still life compositions, to delicate florals and bold landscapes no matter the season.
Artist Notes: Use the warm colours in this palette to adjust the temperature of Ultramarine Blue and Delft Cobalt Blue. Combine Golden Ochre and Ultramarine Blue for a deep green useful for rendering distant hills in a landscape work or blend Golden Ochre with Manganese Violet for warm browns that make interesting colours for grasses. For light and airy florals, use varying amounts of Manganese Violet and Ultramarine Blue for blossoms, or create deep, dark shadows in water using Delft Cobalt Blue.
Palette Contains: Golden Ochre (PY 43), Raw Sienna Warm Shade (PBr 7), Managanese Violet (PV 16), Ultramarine Blue (PB 29), Delft Cobalt Blue (PB 36), Iron Oxide Black (PBk 11)
Brittney Tough – Primary Essentials Palette
This three colour palette features Brittney Tough’s essentials for creating secondary colours in your watercolour paintings.
Stoneground’s Brittney Tough Primary Essentials contains three half pans of our handmade watercolour paint in a hinged metal tin. Measuring approximately 2 1/2” x 2”, this compact size is ideal for travel and plein air painting.
Colours Included: Hansa Yellow Light (PY 3), Quinacridone Red (PV 19), and Ultramarine Blue (PB 29).
Brittney Tough – Warm + Cool Essentials
This collection of warm and cool primary colours contains everything you need to explore secondary colours, as well as a variety of warm and cool colour combinations.
Stoneground’s Brittney Tough Warm & Cool Essentials contains six half pans of our handmade watercolour paint in a hinged metal tin. Measuring approximately 2 1/2” x 2”, this compact size is ideal for travel and plein air painting.
Colours Included: Hansa Yellow Light (PY 3), Hansa Yellow (PY 74), Quinacridone Red (PV 19), Carmine (PR 254), Phthalo Blue (PB 15:3), and Ultramarine Blue (PB29).
Brittney Tough Palette
This collection of colours contains everything you need to explore the world of colour according to Brittney Tough. Containing cool and warm primary colours, as well as several secondary colours, this palette was curated by Brittney herself, and we couldn’t be more excited to bring her love of colour to you.
Stoneground’s Brittney Tough Palette contains twelve half pans of our handmade watercolour paint in a hinged metal tin. Measuring approximately 2 1/2” x 4”, this compact size is ideal for travel and plein air painting.
Colours Included: Hansa Yellow Light (PY 3), Aureolin (PY 40), India Yellow (PY 139), Brilliant Orange (PO 36), Carmine (PR 254), Quinacridone Red (PV 19), Quinacridone Magenta (PR 122), Dioxazine Purple (PV 23), Indanthrone Blue (PB 60), Ultramarine Blue (PB 29), Phthalo Blue (PB 15:3), Phthalo Green Yellow Shade (PG 36).
Pearlescent Palette
Our Pearlescent Palette is wonderful for adding pearlescent accents to traditional watercolours, for hand-lettering and calligraphy applications, and for illustration work. Add highlights to water reflecting the sunshine, or add to wildlife paintings to mimic the iridescence of feathers, the scales of fish, or the wings of butterflies. These colours mix beautifully with others and combine to create a veritable rainbow of shimmering hues. Stoneground’s pearlescent watercolours are permanent, lightfast, and non-toxic.
Stoneground’s Small Pearlescent Palette contains six half pans of our handmade watercolour paint in a hinged metal tin. Measuring approximately 2 1/2” x 2”, this compact size is ideal for travel and plein air painting.
Colours Included: Sunny Yellow, Rowan Berry, Ruby Tuesday, Vienna Violet, Hudson Bay Blue, and Ivy Green
Confetti Palette
Our Confetti Palette was inspired by celebrations, good vibes, and all things bright and fun! This collection of colour is wonderful for adding pearlescent accents to traditional watercolours, for hand-lettering and calligraphy applications, and for illustration work. Pearlescent watercolours are wonderful for adding shimmer and shine to any watercolour project, are permanent, lightfast, and non-toxic.
Stoneground’s Confetti Palette contains six half pans of our handmade watercolour paint in a hinged metal tin. Measuring approximately 2 1/2” x 2”, this compact size is ideal for travel and plein air painting.
Colours Included: Prairie Gold, Tiger Lily, Flamingo Pink, Grey Jay, Jewel Turquoise, and Shamrock Green
Galaxy Palette
Stoneground’s Galaxy Palette was inspired by the night sky and is a wonderful collection of colours to create paintings that are out of this world (Oh, come on, the opportunity was there, I had to take it)! Try this colour combination on black paper for added dramatic effect. Stoneground’s pearlescent watercolours are great for adding pearlescent accents to traditional watercolours, for hand-lettering and calligraphy applications, and for illustration work. All of our pearlescent colours are permanent, lightfast, and non-toxic.
Our Galaxy Palette contains six half pans of our handmade watercolour paint in a hinged metal tin. Measuring approximately 2 1/2” x 2”, this compact size is ideal for travel and plein air painting.
Colours Included: Prairie Gold, Flamingo Pink, Smoky Plum, Aviator Blue, Raven Black, and Pearl
Sea to Sky Palette
Our Sea to Sky Palette is perfect for capturing glowing sunrises, serene oceans, and everything in between. This versatile palette can be used to bring landscapes, still life, wildlife, illustration, and calligraphy palettes to life. Try using this collection on black paper for an added sense of drama. Stoneground’s pearlescent watercolours are permanent, lightfast, and non-toxic.
Stoneground’s Sea to Sky Palette contains six half pans of our handmade watercolour paint in a hinged metal tin. Measuring approximately 2 1/2” x 2”, this compact size is ideal for travel and plein air painting.
Colours Included: Honeycomb Yellow, Tiger Lily, Mountain Rose, Midnight Blue, Sea Green, and Willow Green
Metallic Palette
Stoneground’s Metallic Palette is wonderful for adding metallic and pearlescent accents to traditional watercolours, for hand-lettering and calligraphy applications, and for illustration work. These pearlescent watercolours create beautiful, shimmering effects, and are a wonderful choice to use with black paper for dramatic effects. Stoneground’s pearlescent watercolours are wonderful for adding shimmer and shine to any watercolour project, are permanent, lightfast, and non-toxic.
Our Metallic Palette contains six half pans of our handmade watercolour paint in a hinged metal tin. Measuring approximately 2 1/2” x 2”, this compact size is ideal for travel and plein air painting.
Colours Included: Gold Mica, Bronze, Red Mica, Mink, Silver, and Pearl
Calligraphy Palette
Stoneground’s Calligraphy Palette is the ideal companion for anyone who loves hand lettering and calligraphy. These classic colours are perfect for a multitude of projects including watercolour painting, hand lettering, adding flourishes, and for embellishing.
Our Calligraphy Palette contains six half pans of our handmade watercolour paint in a hinged metal tin. Measuring approximately 2 1/2” x 2”, this compact size is ideal for travel and plein air painting.
Colours Included: Carmine (PR 254), Gold Mica (P N/A), Ultramarine Blue (PB 29), Silver (P N/A), Bone Black (PBk 9), Pearl (P N/A)
Botanical Palette
A combination of our Cool and Warm Botanical Palettes, plus Lemon Ochre and Burnt Sienna Crimson, this collection of colour is perfect for any artist looking for a versatile, bright and vibrant palette. Beyond botanicals, this palette is a wonderful choice for sunsets and skies. Combine Quinacridone Red and Mayan Green Deep for a deep purple that works for silhouettes and landscapes. Combine Hansa Yellow and Marigold Orange for intense summer golds, or blend Hooker’s Green and Dioxazine Purple to create dramatic shadows and folliage.
Stoneground’s Botanical Palette contains fourteen half pans of our handmade watercolour paint in a hinged metal tin. Measuring 2 1/2” x 4”, this compact size is perfect for travel and painting all of your favourite plants, from mosses to tulips, trees to kelp.
Colours Included: Hansa Yellow Light (PY 3), Hansa Yellow (PY 74), Marigold Orange (PO 34), Scarlet (PR 112), Quinacridone Red (PR 122), Manganese Violet (PV 16), Dioxazine Purple (PV 23), Ultramarine Blue (PB 29), Phthalo Green Blue Shade (PG 7), Lemon Ochre (PY 43), Burnt Sienna Crimson (PBr 7), Mayan Green Deep (P N/A)
Coastal Palette
Capture the serenity or anger of the ocean, create stunning light effects from fog to sunset on the water, to sunny bright surf and thunderous waves. Inspired by a trip to the Canadian Maritimes, this collection of warm and cool colours is perfect for capturing all types of land and seascapes and is a wonderful choice for creating dramatic sunsets and skies.
Stoneground’s Coastal Palette contains fourteen half pans of our handmade watercolour paint in a hinged metal tin. Measuring approximately 2 1/2” x 4”, this compact size is perfect for travel and plein air painting at your favourite beach.
Palette contains: Nickel Titanium Yellow (PY 53), Hansa Yellow Deep (PY 65), Golden Ochre (PY 43), Transparent Red (PR 101), Quinacridone Red (PV 19), Manganese Violet (PV 16), Delft Cobalt Blue (PB 36), Ultramarine Blue (PB 29), Cobalt Aquamarine (PB 36), Mayan Green Deep (P N/A), Phthalo Green Blue Shade (PB 15:3), Chromium Oxide Green (PG 17), Burnt Umber (PBr 7), Titanium Buff (PW 6:1)
Landscape Palette
Stoneground’s Landscape Palette features a combination of colours perfect for creating a wide variety of landscapes from stormy prairie skies to tropical sunsets, mountain ranges and glacial lakes, boreal forests and countryside. Combine Hansa Yellow and Cobalt Aquamarine for bright, jungle greens, or create the gorgeous golds of a North American autumn by mixing Lemon Ochre and Bordeaux.
The Landscape Palette contains fourteen half pans of our handmade watercolour paint in a hinged metal tin. Measuring 2 1/2” x 4”, this compact size is perfect for travel and painting your favourite landscape no matter where your travels take you
Colours Included: Hansa Yellow (PY 74), Lemon Ochre (PY 43), Mars Orange (PY 42), Naphthol Red (PR 170), India Red (PR 101), Bordeaux (PR 12), Ultramarine Rose (PR 259), Mayan Royal Blue (P N/A), Cobalt Aquamarine (PB 36), Mayan Green (P N/A), Hooker’s Green (PG 7), Nicosia Green Earth (PG 23), Raw Umber Green Shade (PBr 7), Grey Ochre (P N/A)
Large Earth Palette
Our Large Earth Palette is one that artists of old would recognize. Until the advent of synthetic pigments, artists created their own paints from earth pigments such as yellow ochres, red and green earths, mineral blues, bone and lamp blacks. Use the colours featured here to compose beautiful tonal works, or work bi-chromatically with combinations of these colours to create interesting studies with mood and character. Supplement this palette with a combination of primary colours such as Hansa Yellow, Pyrrole Red, and Ultramarine Blue for a palette that can paint the rainbow.
Stoneground’s Earth Palette contains fourteen half pans of our handmade watercolour paint in a hinged metal tin. Measuring approximately 2 1/2” x 4”, this compact size is perfect for travel and painting en plein air.
Colours Included: Lemon Ochre (PY 43), Raw Sienna Warm Shade (PBr 7), Mars Orange (PY 42), Mayan Red (P N/A), India Red (PR 101), Armenian Purple Ochre (PR 102), Mayan Violet (P N/A), Mayan Royal Blue (P N/A), Mayan Indigo Blue (P N/A), Nicosia Green Earth (PG 23), Florentine Green (PG 17), Antica Green Earth (PG 23), Raw Umber Dark Neutral (PBr 7)
Large Pearlescent Palette
Our Pearlescent Palette is ideal for adding special effects to traditional watercolour painting, for hand-lettering or calligraphy applications, and for illustration work. Use this collection to accent traditional landscape paintings, such as light reflecting off of water or snow, or to highlight the frost on winter tree branches. When applied to wildlife, this palette can be used to capture the iridescent beauty of peacock feathers, dragonfly wings and scarab beetles, or to craft the scales of reptiles, amphibians, fish, and more. These colours mix together beautifully to create a rainbow of shimmering colour, and can easily be added to any of Stoneground’s other watercolour paints.
Stoneground’s Pearlescent Palette contains fourteen half pans with our handmade watercolour paint in a hinged metal tin. Measuring approximately 2 1/2” x 4”, this compact size is ideal for travel and plein air painting.
Colours Included: Sunny Yellow, Prairie Gold, Tiger Lily, Rowan Berry, Flamingo Pink, Ruby Tuesday, Grey Jay, LuluBelle Rose, Vienna Violet, Hudson Bay Blue, Jewel Turquoise, Shamrock Green, Ivy Green, and Pearl
Large Night Garden Palette
Stoneground’s Large Night Garden Palette is a collection of modern, traditional, and mineral colours inspired by our love of all things botanical. Truly a study in contrasts, this palette can create a range of bright, vibrant, electric colours or it can create dramatic darks evoking Dutch still life paintings from the 17th century. For traditionally inspired watercolours, create an underpainting with the mineral pigment Vivianite, glazing over with transparent hues like Gamboge and Cobalt Aquamarine for vivid greens, or blend Indanthrone Blue and Pozzuoli Earth Red for intense darks with depth. Blend striking, muted pastels perfect for capturing blossoms at home in a cottage garden or layer the jewel-toned hues of Gamboge and Quinacridone Magenta for burnt oranges that would be at home in a moody floral.
The Large Night Garden Palette contains fourteen half pans of our handmade watercolour paint in a hinged metal tin. Measuring approximately 2 1/2” x 4”, this compact size is ideal for travel and plein air painting.
Colours Included: Titanium Buff (PW 6:1), Gamboge (PY 150), Pozzuoli Earth Red (PR 102), Transparent Earth Red (PR 101), Mayan Red (P N/A), Scarlet (PR 112), Quinacridone Magenta (PR 122), Manganese Violet (PV 16), Indanthrone Blue (PB 60), Prussian Blue (PB 27), Cobalt Aquamarine (PB 36), Hooker’s Green (PG 7), Roman Black (PBk 11), Vivianite (P N/A)
