Watercolor Paints

  • Tube paints only
  • Here's my recommended brands
  • Click on brand name of choice and color will be revealed.
Qor Paints
II went to the Watercolor Society of Indiana meeting on March 17, 2019. Valeria Allen was their guest speaker from Golden Paints. My wife, Marilee won a set of QoR watercolors and I decided to take them for a test drive. Below are a video and here's a link to my 2019 Dale's Field Journal QoR Watercolor paints blog review. 
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QoR Newsletter with Valuable Information
Here's a link to QoR watercolor newsletter, Just Paint. These two articles talk about the science behind QoRs watercolors answering your watercolor paint questions: 
Labeling and Lightfastness Ratings
The Science Behind QoR
QoR Watercolors Chart
  1. Click on the the VIEW QOR CHART HERE button below and it will take you to their 83 high-intensity colors chart.
  2. Once you are on the color chart click on a color chip, I selected cobalt blue. A visual will appear I feel is very helpful showing the depth of values, intensity and temperature​. They also share makeup of pigment below color chip illustration. 
My Recommended Colors
Here's what I have on my palette. I am currently experimenting with more of these amazing watercolor paints. I am personally having a love fair with this product.

​Remember click on the color bellow.
​​Cobalt Blue
Ultramarine Blue
Manganese Blue
Raw Sienna
Burnt Sienna or Transparent Brown Oxide 
Alizarin Crimson
Cadmium Yellow Medium or Dairylide Yellow 
Sap Green
Olive Green
​Bismuth Vanadate Yellow
​Indian Yellow 
Transparent Brown Oxide
Transparent Pyrone Orange
​WINSOR & NEWTON PROFESSIONAL TUBE (NOT COTMAN)
Cobalt Bue
Ultramarine Blue
Manganese Blue
Raw Sienna
Burnt Sienna
Brown Madder
Alizarin Crimson
Cadmium Yellow Medium
Sap Green
Olive Green
Holbein Extra Fine Artists' Watercolors
Cobalt Blue
Ultramarine Blue
Manganese Blue
Raw Sienna
Burnt Sienna
​Brown Madder
Alizarin Crimson
Cadmium Yellow Medium
Yellow Medium
Sap Green
Olive Green
Blick Artists' WATERCOLORS
ROYAL TALENS: VAN GOGH
Cobalt Blue
Ultramarine Blue
Manganese Blue
Raw Sienna
Burnt Sienna
​Brown Madder
Alizarin Crimson
Cadmium Yellow Medium
Yellow Medium
Sap Green
Olive Green
ROYAL TALENS: Rembrandt Artists' Watercolor
Cobalt Blue
Ultramarine Blue
Manganese Blue
Raw Sienna
Burnt Sienna
​Madder Brown
Alizarin Crimson
Cadmium Yellow Medium
Yellow Medium
Sap Green
 Olive Green 
​GOUACHE
Winsor & Newton Designers Gouache Tube, 14ml, Permanent White

  • Winsor & Newton Designers' Gouache colours are made from the finest pigments, offering opaque watercolours with a flat, matt finish.