Watercolour Paint
When it matters what the paint does
Watercolour is a natural extension of fountain pen sketching. It rewards observation and responsiveness, where the movement of water and pigment becomes part of the creative process rather than something to fully control.
That is why artist quality materials matter. Professional grade watercolours use higher pigment loads and cleaner formulations, giving you richer colour, better mixing and stronger performance from a surprisingly small amount of paint.
Start simply with an Urban Sketch Kit, then build your palette as your style develops. Explore the expressive granulation of Daniel Smith, the luminous washes of Winsor & Newton, or the accessible performance of White Nights.
Expand further with gouache for highlights and complete your setup with portable palettes, artist grade brushes and sketchbooks designed to help you create more often.
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WINSOR & NEWTON Rich Earth Watercolour Set - 5mL x 6 Colours
WINSOR & NEWTON. Let our carefully selected assortment of six of our richest earth colours inspire you to recreate the world around you.Set Con...
View full detailsWINSOR & NEWTON Granulating Watercolour Set - 5mL x 6 Colours
WINSOR & NEWTON. Tint, tone, and create beautiful textures with this set of six exceptional granulating colours, offering the highest quality o...
View full detailsWINSOR & NEWTON Winsor Colours Watercolour Set - 5mL x 6 Colours
WINSOR & NEWTON. Let your creativity flow with this set of six iconic Winsor shades, combining our heritage & expertise offering beautiful ...
View full detailsWINSOR & NEWTON Professional Watercolour - 14mL - 347 Lemon Yellow (Nickel Titanate) (PY53)
Lemon Yellow is a clear bright yellow colour. Professional grade watercolour range with a reputation built on optimal pigment dispersion to deliver...
View full detailsWINSOR & NEWTON Professional Watercolour - 14mL - 180 Cobalt Blue Deep (PB74)
Professional grade watercolour range with a reputation built on optimal pigment dispersion to deliver vibrant and even washes. Cobalt Deep Blue is ...
View full detailsWINSOR & NEWTON Professional Watercolour - 14mL - 178 Cobalt Blue (PB28)
Cobalt Blue is a clean blue pigment. It was discovered in 1802 by French chemist Louis Thénard as an alternative pigment to the expensive Lapis Laz...
View full detailsWINSOR & NEWTON Professional Watercolour - 14mL - 191 Cobalt Turquoise Light (PG50)
Cobalt Turquoise Light is a paler, slightly greener colour to its sister Cobalt Turquoise. A careful blend of blue and green pigments, it is a deli...
View full detailsWINSOR & NEWTON Professional Watercolour - 14mL - 190 Cobalt Turquoise (PB28,PB36)
Professional grade watercolour range with a reputation built on optimal pigment dispersion to deliver vibrant and even washes. Cobalt Turquoise is ...
View full detailsWINSOR & NEWTON Professional Watercolour - 14mL - 576 Rose Dore (PV19,PY97)
Rose Doré is a light rose pigment with a subtle yellow undertone. It is a transparent watercolour with staining properties. Professional grade wate...
View full detailsWINSOR & NEWTON Professional Watercolour - 14mL - 587 Rose Madder Genuine (NR9)
Rose Madder Genuine is a rose pigment only made by Winsor & Newton. George Field, acclaimed colourist of the 19th c, created a laboratory in wh...
View full detailsWINSOR & NEWTON Professional Watercolour - 14mL - 192 Cobalt Violet (PV14)
Cobalt Violet is a delicate semi-transparent purple pigment. It was a new synthetic pigment in the 1860s and was used by famous artists such as Mon...
View full detailsWINSOR & NEWTON Professional Watercolour - 14mL - 185 Cobalt Green Deep (PG26)
Professional grade watercolour range with a reputation built on optimal pigment dispersion to deliver vibrant and even washes. Based on a strong, b...
View full detailsWINSOR & NEWTON Professional Watercolour - 14mL - 321 Indanthrene Blue (PB60)
Indanthrene Blue is a clean deep blue pigment. It is fully lightfast and is a transparent colour. It is a modern organic pigment and was originally...
View full detailsWINSOR & NEWTON Professional Watercolour - 14mL - 697 Aqua Green (Phthalo)
Bring luminosity to your work with the serene, semi-transparent undertones of Aqua Green. Nestled precisely between green and blue, this cool-toned...
View full detailsWINSOR & NEWTON Professional Watercolour - 14mL - 137 Cerulean Blue (PB35)
Cerulean Blue was developed in 1805 and entered the English market in the 1860s. Its name derives from the Latin Caeruleum meaning sky-blue pigment...
View full detailsWINSOR & NEWTON Professional Watercolour - 14mL - 459 Oxide of Chromium (PG17)
Oxide of Chromium is an opaque willow green pigment. Though discovered in 1809 it was only made available for artists in 1862. Today, it is commonl...
View full detailsWINSOR & NEWTON Professional Watercolour - 14mL - 466 Permanent Alizarin Crimson (PR179)
WINSOR & NEWTON Professional grade watercolour range with a reputation built on optimal pigment dispersion to deliver vibrant and even washes.
WINSOR & NEWTON Professional Watercolour - 14mL - 479 Permanent Carmine
Permanent Carmine is a mid-crimson pigment. Highly transparent and permanent, it is a lower cost replacement to genuine Carmine. In Antiquity, Carm...
View full detailsWINSOR & NEWTON Professional Watercolour - 14mL - 489 Permanent Magenta (PV19)
Permanent Magenta is less purple than Quinacridone Magenta and leans slightly towards blue. It is based on a Quinacridone pigment which was introdu...
View full detailsWINSOR & NEWTON Professional Watercolour - 14mL - 491 Permanent Mauve (PV16)
Permanent Mauve is a rich violet colour. It is semi-transparent and lightfast. Mauve, originally a lake pigment, was discovered in England in 1856 ...
View full detailsWINSOR & NEWTON Professional Watercolour - 14mL - 502 Permanent Rose (PV19)
Permanent Rose is a bright rose violet colour. It is a transparent quinacridone pigment and was introduced in the Winsor & Newton range in the ...
View full detailsWINSOR & NEWTON Professional Watercolour - 14mL - 507 Perylene Maroon (PR179)
Perylene Maroon is a dark maroon pigment. Perylene is a modern synthetic organic pigment and was first available as a dye around 1912 before becomi...
View full detailsWINSOR & NEWTON Professional Watercolour - 14mL - 547 Transparent Gold Deep / Quinacridone Gold (PR206,PV19,PY150)
Transparent Gold Deep is a dark warm yellow colour. It is a highly transparent and mixes well with other pigments.Please note that due to a recent ...
View full detailsWINSOR & NEWTON Professional Watercolour - 14mL - 545 Quinacridone Magenta (PR122)
Quinacridone Magenta is a rich deep violet-red colour. It is based on the Quinacridone pigment. The name Magenta comes from a lake colour named in ...
View full detailsWINSOR & NEWTON Professional Watercolour - 14mL - 548 Quinacridone Red (PR209)
Quinacridone Red is a vivid mid-red colour. It is a transparent pigment which was first introduced by Winsor & Newton in the 1950s. Professiona...
View full detailsWINSOR & NEWTON Professional Watercolour - 14mL - 650 Transparent Orange (DPP*)
WINSOR & NEWTON Transparent Orangeis a vibrant, strong and lively orange veering easily between a primary and an earth colour. Professional gra...
View full detailsWINSOR & NEWTON Professional Watercolour - 14mL - 649 Turners Yellow (PY216)
Professional grade watercolour range with a reputation built on optimal pigment dispersion to deliver vibrant and even washes.
WINSOR & NEWTON Professional Watercolour - 14mL - 678 Venetian Red (PR101)
Venetian Red is an opaque deep red colour. An earth pigment, it was called Venetian Red after the quarry near Venice where the painter Titian sourc...
View full detailsWINSOR & NEWTON Professional Watercolour - 14mL - 603 Scarlet Lake (PR188)
Scarlet Lake is a bright red with orange-yellow undertones. The name stems from a type of fine woollen cloth called scarlet cloth which was often d...
View full detailsWINSOR & NEWTON Professional Watercolour - 14mL - 285 Gold Ochre (PY42)
Gold Ochre is an earth pigment, and as such, has been used since prehistoric times. It is a warm brownish yellow colour. It has been made synthetic...
View full detailsWINSOR & NEWTON Professional Watercolour - 14mL - 294 Green Gold (PY129)
Professional grade watercolour range with a reputation built on optimal pigment dispersion to deliver vibrant and even washes. Green Gold is a tran...
View full detailsWINSOR & NEWTON Professional Watercolour - 14mL - 348 Lemon Yellow Deep (PY159)
Lemon Yellow Deep is a warm yellow colour. It is an opaque and granulating watercolour. Professional grade watercolour range with a reputation buil...
View full detailsWINSOR & NEWTON Professional Watercolour - 14mL - 448 Opera Rose (PR122)
Opera Rose is a vivid magenta rose colour. Professional grade watercolour range with a reputation built on optimal pigment dispersion to deliver vi...
View full detailsWINSOR & NEWTON Professional Watercolour - 14mL - 460 Perylene Green (PBk31)
Perylene Green is a dark transparent green pigment. Undiluted, it is almost a black colour. Perylene is a modern synthetic organic pigment and was ...
View full detailsWINSOR & NEWTON Professional Watercolour - 14mL - 470 Perylene Violet (PV29)
Perylene Violet is a single pigment colour made using PV29. The masstone colour is a very dark and intense maroon, which shifts toward a dull red v...
View full detailsWINSOR & NEWTON Professional Watercolour - 14mL - 537 Potters Pink (PR233)
Professional grade watercolour range with a reputation built on optimal pigment dispersion to deliver vibrant and even washes.
WINSOR & NEWTON Professional Watercolour - 14mL - 526 Phthalo Turquoise (PB16)
Phthalo Turquoise is an intense blue-green pigment with a red undertone. It is made from the modern pigment Phthalocyanine which was introduced in ...
View full detailsWINSOR & NEWTON Professional Watercolour - 14mL - 667 Ultramarine (Green Shade) (PB29)
Ultramarine (Green Shade) is a rich deep transparent blue with green undertones, differing from the red undertones of French Ultramarine. French ch...
View full detailsWINSOR & NEWTON Professional Watercolour - 14mL - 672 Ultramarine Violet (PV15)
Ultramarine Violet is a rich purple colour. It is a derivation of French Ultramarine, a synthetic pigment created in 1828 by French chemist Guimet ...
View full detailsWINSOR & NEWTON Professional Watercolour - 14mL - 263 French Ultramarine (PB29)
French Ultramarine is a rich transparent blue. It was created by French chemist Guimet in 1828 as a synthetic but chemically identical alternative ...
View full detailsWINSOR & NEWTON Professional Watercolour - 14mL - 692 Viridian Hue (PG7,PY42,PY43)
Viridian is a transparent emerald green colour. Named after the Latin for green 'viridis', it was first made in Paris by colourist Binet in 1838 as...
View full detailsWINSOR & NEWTON Professional Watercolour - 14mL - 419 Tyrian Purple (PV37,PR202)
Intense deep purple with a red blue undertone, an excellent alternative to the Murex sea snail version. Intense purple with a red blue undertone. ...
View full detailsWINSOR & NEWTON Professional Watercolour - 14mL - 420 Cinnabar Green (PY138,PG36)
Vibrant yellowish green which offers tinting and toning potential with other primary and secondary colours. Strong vibrant transparent yellowish g...
View full detailsWINSOR & NEWTON Professional Watercolour - 14mL - 418 Field's Orange (PO67)
A single pigment red orange, inspired by George Field's specially levigated vermillion for a strong intense colour. Single pigment intense orange ...
View full detailsWINSOR & NEWTON Professional Watercolour - 14mL - 552 Raw Sienna (PY42,PR101)
Raw Sienna is a bright brown pigment. One of the oldest pigments, it can be found in prehistoric cave art. It is named after Siena, Italy where the...
View full detailsWINSOR & NEWTON Professional Watercolour - 14mL - 745 Yellow Ochre Light (PY43)
Professional grade watercolour range with a reputation built on optimal pigment dispersion to deliver vibrant and even washes.
WINSOR & NEWTON Professional Watercolour - 14mL - 010 Antwerp Blue (PB27)
Professional grade watercolour range with a reputation built on optimal pigment dispersion to deliver vibrant and even washes.
WINSOR & NEWTON Professional Watercolour - 14mL - 311 Hookers Green (PG36,PY110)
Professional grade watercolour range with a reputation built on optimal pigment dispersion to deliver vibrant and even washes. Hooker's Green is a ...
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