Some of our favourite palettes with one of our brushes and samples of Fabriano Rosaspina paper 100% cotton paper in a reusable cotton bag, everything you need to paint on the go! "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, gum arabic, and Manitoulin maple sap 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 cloth. Our pans are packaged in slices of cedar and birch offcuts from an Indigenous sustainable lumber operation." Watercolor options include: Children's Palette: Blueberry Mountain, Fall Poplar Yellow, Great Ocean, Pumpkin, Sky Blue, Spring Green, Summer Sun Red, Wild Cherry (*set is certified ACMI safe for children, see note below) Primary Trio Cookie: Almost Night, Fall Poplar Yellow, Strawberry Red Spectrum 11 Birch Cookie Set: Almost Night, Blueberry Mountain, Classic Gold, Fall Poplar Yellow, Great Ocean, Morning Peach (gouache), Pumpkin, Robin's Egg Blue (gouache), Spring Green, Strawberry Red, Wild Cherry Gouache options include: Good Dreams Gouache Cookie Set: Beach Rose, Butter, Cream, Grey Ultra (Cloud), Ice Color, Lavender, Milkweed, Morning Peach, Robin's Egg Blue, Sky Blue, Wild Rose Note from Beam Paints about Children's Palette: "these colours have been third party tested by the toxicologists at Duke University and Cambridge Materials testing to meet and exceed the standards for safety for childrens paint. they are not toxic or hazardous and meet LHAMA and ASTM D4236 standards for artist materials! They are also made with our same dedication to lightfastness and quality and are identical to our other paints for fine artists. We believe artists of all ages even those in kindergarten deserve the joys that handmade paints can bring! And knowing that their safety has been considered to the highest degree!"
