The following 24 traditional Chinse colors come in half pan cakes in this set:
1. Chinese White ¦¦¦¦(104)
As known as titanium white, an opaque mineral color. Often applied to the back of rice paper to enhance the whiteness of paper, such as waterfalls in landscape painting or the the white furs on animals. Mix with carmine or rouge for paint pink flowers, mix with gamboge for stamens and pollen.
2. Gamboge ████ (218)
A transparent plant color. Good for follow flowers, mix with Indigo to make transparent green for leaves and trees.
3. Orange Yellow ████ (316)
A transparent plant color. Good for follow flowers, mix with Indigo to make transparent green for leaves and trees.
4. Cinnabar ████ (398)
A opaque Mineral color. Often used in flower and birds, and human figure painting.
5. Vermilion ████ (399)
A semi-opaque mineral color, good for painting orange red flowers, maple leaves and autumn foliage, or washing sunset sky.
6. Peony Red ████ (393)
A transparent plant color. A natural red color that is lighter than rouge but darker than crimson lake. As its name suggests it is good for painting the red peonies.
7. Rouge ████ (400)
A transparent plant color. A very rich dark red for flowers; diluted with water or white to make cool pink for plum blossoms, or add a red tinge to leaves or branches.
8. Rose ████ (336)
A transparent plant color. Named after Chinese rose, I found this beautiful pink color is perfect for painting lotus flowers. Mix with rouge to make dark rose rose.
9. Light Green ████ (593)
An opaque mineral color. In traditional blue-and-green landscape painting, after a layer of transparent green is applied to the front side, this opaque green is applied to the backside of rice paper to create the final effect. Avoid using it alone on the front side of the paper. Always combined with vegetable colors or ink. Or, it will look chalky.
10. Dark Green ████ (591)
An opaque mineral color. There are three tones from dark to light and this is the first one on the dark side. If watered down and mixed with ink or other transparent greens it can be applied directly on the front side on paper for jade-green bamboo.
11. Jungle Green ████ (560)
This new transparent color fills the blank of a basic green color in the history of Chinese painting colors. So for the first time we do not need to mix blue and yellow to get it. This pure green color interact well with ink and won't get muddy with other colors as mixed green colors do.
12. Olive Green ████ (569)
A new transparent color. It looks nice when diluted with water. Mix with light ink to make very soft green grays. Tinge with red to paint tender leaves.
13. Light Blue ████ (493)
An opaque mineral color (Azutrite3). There are three tones from dark to light and this is the third one(light). Used for thick leaves, rocks and sky. Use on the back of rice paper with transparent blue on the front to avoid chalkiness.
14. Dark Blue ████ (491)
An opaque mineral blue (Azutrite1). There are three tones from dark to light and this is the first one(dark). Used for with light blue on the back side of paper or directly on embed on the top of ink base.
15. Cobalt Blue ████ (453)
An opaque mineral color. It 's the second tone of the three mineral blue colors mentioned above.
16. Ultramarine Blue ████ (443)
A new transparent color. Very nice medium tone bright blue. Mix with brown for various light grays, or with ink for dark blue gray.
17. Purple ████ (439)
A transparent plant color. A ready made bright purple that is perfect for painting wisteria and other violet flowers.
18. Phthalocyanine Blue ████ (451)
A transparent plant color. Mix with gamboge yellow to make various greens in landscape and leaves.
19. Indigo ████ (495)
A transparent plant color. This is one of the most useful color in Chinese painting. Complementary to umber in traditional Chinese landscape painting. Mix with ink to make blue gray, and combine with gamboge to make green leaves.
20. Yellow Ochre ████ (676)
A new semi-opaque color. A brownish yellow or earth yellow. Used to mix with other color to make nice skin colors.
21. Vandyke Red ████ (681)
A new Marie's mineral color. Red soil or terra rosa soil color.
22. Umber ████ (684)
A semi-transparent mineral color. A brown color made from the yellow soil. Ideal for painting earthy landscapes, tree trunks and flower stems.
23. Burt Siena ████ (687)
A new Marie's semi-transparent color. Use along as a rich dark brown color or mix with Ultramarine Blue for warm grays.
24. Row Siena ████ (688)
A new Marie's semi-transparent color. A nice yellowish brown.
Made by the famous Marie's brand in China.
This exquisite traditional Chinese watercolor paints are suitable for both lightly and heavily colored Chinese brush painting or sumi-e. They can be mixed with sumi ink and water to create rich, subtle tones. For best effects, apply them on rice paper, mulberry paper or other Asian painting papers. It will not run or bleed during wet mounting.
Imported from China, we ship from California.
