Description

Artist quality, handmade paint prepared from a New Zealand pigment. Oxford Chalk, from the Oxford chalk dome, is hand-ground into powder and then made into paint using a traditional watercolour recipe consisting of gum arabic, honey, oil of cloves as a preservative and distilled water. The paint is then placed in watercolour half-pans.

The chalk makes a creamy white paint and it can be mixed with my other watercolour paints to produce a tint, as shown in the photograph. The other colours are (from left to right) - Brick, Onawe orange-brown, Waikari green and Okains brown

It is quite normal for some of these dried watercolour paints to crack in the pan. This is no way detracts from their use. The beauty of watercolour paint that has dried on the palette is that it can be reused by moistening at any time. (Tip: dried out tubes of watercolour paint can be cut open lengthwise and used in the same way as pan paints.)