I recently purchased the ‘Under the sea’ set of paints from Yonder Paints, a small artisanal business in Otepoti Dunedin, here in New Zealand. The set came in its own wee tin and the half pans have a wee magnet on the base to hold them in place. They make their own binder, which includes clove oil as a preservative, and they’re all hand-milled in small batches. My parcel included a hand written note, watercolour swatch cards and a couple of sample dots. Just lovely!
That’s all great, but what about the actual paints? Put it this way, my second set arrived today … eight colours selected by me, again in their own tin. The paints wet well, the colours are vibrant, they blend beautifully – I’m in love!
I haven’t got pieces photographed, because life has been happening, but I’ll do that over the weekend. In the meantime, shown below is what I received today, and the swatch cards I did for ‘Under the sea’. I use the Swatchdex swatch cards from Sarah Renae Clark, and find they’re great.
Cath Sheard Art 