Paintstone Palettes
CMYK Palette- Lake Topaz, Cherry Magenta, Grasshopper, and Mars Black
Primary Trio-Strawberry, Fall Poplar Yellow and Almost Night
Mixing Six-Great Ocean, Strawberry, Fall Poplar Yellow, Almost Night, Magenta and Limestone White
Spectrum 11 Palette-This palette is a spectrum of some of our most popular colours. Choose to paint the rainbow, or mix any two together to create a wide range of hues. Set of 11 includes Strawberry, Magenta, Pumpkin, Morning Peach, Fall Poplar Yellow, Spring Green, Robins Egg, Great Ocean, Almost Night, Blueberry Mountain, Dreamers Gold.This set is also available as a Travel Card or Birch Mini-Cookie.
Spectrum Sparkle 12-All of our ethical mica sparkle in one place! What makes it ethical you may ask? In the Mica industry there are allegations of child labour and unsafe mining practice. In response we have sourced our mica from Hartwell Georgia USA click to lean more12 beautiful shade, Wild Salmon, Fireweed, Beachsand, Pumpkin Spice, Dreamers Gold, Fiddlehead, Rainforest, Glacial Rivers, Wintery Night, Amethyst, Wet Grizzly, and Shell
Frida Kahlo Colors -Inspired by the incomparable patron saint of women artists, Frida Kahlo. Magnificent artist whose home was casa azul, who graced the cover of vogue Paris with a straight on gaze that went down in history. Also an artist in her personal appearance, bringing indigenous influence from her life to her canvases to her hair and dress. We honour her with these colors calling to mind the vivid lushness of her paintings. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frida_Kahlo Colors include -Fall Poplar Yellow, Pumpkin, Pine, Beach Rose
Hilma Af Klint -Inspired by the mystic precognition of Hilma Af Klint. If you don’t know her amazing work and story, check out some of the great articles online, like
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilma_af_Klint colors include: Cherry Magenta, Pumpkin, Wild Rose, Butter, Violet, Graphite.
OKeeffe Ghost Ranch -Inspired by the vivid desert dreams of Georgia O’Keeffe. Group of Seven luminary, Lawren Harris, was inspired by his visits to Ghost Ranch, O’Keeffe’s studio at Abiquiu, New Mexico. The O'Keeffe Palette, (Ghost Ranch) in sienna waxed canvas is Cherry Magenta, Morning Peach, Bread and Yellow Ochre (harvest wheat)
Martin White Flower-Inspired by the majestic minimalism of Canadian born painter, Agnes Martin. Click here to see her Art Canada Institute online book These palettes are named for “White Flower’ and “Desert Rain” two of Martin’s key works of understated elegance “White Flower” Ultra Grey, Payne's Grey, Mars Black and Limestone White. and “Desert Rain” Cream, Slate, Grey Ochre,Graphite
Hupfield 4- inspired by the contemporary art practice of Maria Hupfield. Soft grey felt, bright yellow and silver inspired four colours in a pine palette :Cloudless Sulphur, Grey Ultra, Silver, and Timberwolf. To find our more visit the artists website here. From wikipedia Maria Hupfield (born 1975) is a Canadian artist, working in Toronto, ON. She is an Anishinaabe, specifically an Ojibwe and a member of the Wasauksing First Nation, located in Ontario, Canada. Hupfield works in a variety of media, including video and performance. Her performance practice references Anishinaabeg oral history and feminist performance history.
Plein Air Gouache-A set inspired by the paintstone collection of @dannaray Check out her feed for absolutely stunning en plein air! Set of 15 includes Boreal Green, Prussian Blue, Almost Night, Grey Ultra, Spring Green, Sky Blue, Ice Blue, Lavender, Milkweed, Limestone White, Wild Rose, Beach Rose, Fall Poplar Yellow, Summer Sun Red and Pumpkin
Blueberry Cake-This Palette is inspired by the colours of the blueberry cake my mother made. a real favourite, and when i started making paints I would bring this cake to the quarry workers who helped me gather rocks to trade for stone. colours:Blueberry Mountain, Lilac(lavender) Great Ocean, and Harvest Wheat. (comes with recipe for blueberry cake)
Wawa (Canada Goose)- If you’ve rode the Trans Canada highway thru Northern Ontario you may remember a giant goose statue! That is the town of Wawa, which means Canada Goose in Ojibwe! We’ve paired the colours of the fluff and down of our iconic national bird, along with the icy blue of the northern waters. This six color set comes wrapped in a beeswaxed cotton wrapper with a flying geese design.
colours include Wet Grizzly, Cream, Glacial Rivers, Grey Ochre, Slate, Graphite
Gifting Colors-Selected from customer favorites, we’ve come up with a few options of colors for birthdays and gifting occasions! - Thank You-Wild Salmon, Dreamers Gold, Violet, Cherry Mino Dbishkaan-Happy Birthday-Beach Rose, Fiddlehead, Sky Blue, Salish Sea
Beaver Pond-
9 colours inspired by the natural forest oasis of the beaver pond, these micro climates are a glorious home to birds, amphibians, and flowers, all taken care of by the industrious beaver. Spring Green, Boreal, Sky Blue, Rainforest (mica) Lake Huron Teal, Harvest Wheat( ochre) Wintery Night (mica) Wet Grizzly (mica) and Robins egg.
Wrapped in a lovely forest print of 100% beeswaxed cotton
Comfort Colors-For me these are the colours of comfort and nostalgia. Aunties and grandmas house, the seats on the ferry to the mainland. Creamy butter colour Mixed with robins egg makes the most wonderful green! All anchored in memories of station wagons and summer vacations! Four beautiful paintstones wrapped in a waxed flannel wrapper. colors include- Butter, Robins Egg, Cub Brown and Pumpkin
Waasnoodin-Northern Lights-Bring a spark to your palette these 100 percent pigment and binder watercolours sourced from Georgia USA. (Rather than undocumented mica which apparently can support child labour)
click here to learn more about this pigment Mica Gold, Beach Sand, Shell, Glacial Rivers, Wet Grizzly, and Winter Night
Holiday Sparkle-
Wild Salmon, Rainforest, Silver and Dreamers Gold!
brighten your cards and notes and stay tuned to our Instagram for lots of cute holiday notecard ideas
Spring Equinox Trio- Three mica sparkle colors- Fiddlehead, fireweed, amethyst