Kiskatinaw Palette - Metal Tin

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Understory watercolours are crafted in small batches from natural, earth based pigments. Each pan of paint is carefully mulled by hand with a simple formula tailored to each pigment. Each pan is poured and dried in layers to minimize bubbles and cracks and to make sure they’re as full as possible.

The Kiskatinaw Palette - This palette is named after the Kiskatinaw River, which weaves its way throughout the lands where these colours were found. I learned that the word Kiskatinaw means “cut-bank” in Cree, which is fitting in a way. All three colours were found in or very near to sheer cutbacks of various river before being transformed into watercolour paint.

Understory watercolours are crafted in small batches from natural, earth based pigments. Each pan of paint is carefully mulled by hand with a simple formula tailored to each pigment. Each pan is poured and dried in layers to minimize bubbles and cracks and to make sure they’re as full as possible.

The Kiskatinaw Palette - This palette is named after the Kiskatinaw River, which weaves its way throughout the lands where these colours were found. I learned that the word Kiskatinaw means “cut-bank” in Cree, which is fitting in a way. All three colours were found in or very near to sheer cutbacks of various river before being transformed into watercolour paint.

Kiskatinaw Coal - A deep, sepia black with beautiful depth and granulation. This colour was made from finely crushed raw coal that had eroded along the side of the Kiskatinaw River.

Flatbed Red - A deep orange leaning red ocher. This tone reminds me of the inside of a blood orange, or a red salmon berry. One of two pigments collected from a cut-bank near Flatbed Falls.

Flatbed Yellow - A warm yellow ocher, leaning towards a sienna. The second of two pigments collected from a cut-bank near Flatbed Falls.