What can you find here?
Information on 35797 art products (colour pencils, pastels, watercolour, acrylic, gouache, oil paints etc.) with 3895 hand made swatches which you can browse, sort, view as a chart, and compare.
Create an account to save and maintain your own paint collections or palettes, or use it for making wishlists.
Visualization of colours of a brand on the CIE Lab colour plane which makes it easy for you to see the differences in hue, saturation, and value between them.
A practical colour mixing tool for predicting colour mixes of actual paints you want to try (works best for opaque paints like gouache).
Upcoming: new features, colour theory games, and other digital tools.
Who is it for?
For artists, art students, everyone interested in colour or working in somewhat colour related professions.
Blockx Aquarelles
Pigment Database — Color Codes
The database contains 444 artists' pigments, with references to paints. The most popular pigments:
PW6 PR101 PG7 PY42 PB29 PBk7 PBr7 PY3 PB15:3 PBk11 PB15 PY74 PV23 PV19 PW4 PR122 PY35 PY83 PBk9 PR108 PG17 PB27 PR112 PY43 PB28 PR254 PY1 PBk6 PO20 PG36 PB15:1 PR170 PV15 PY65 PG18 PO13 PB36 PY53 PW20 PR102 PY150 PY14 PY184 PY154 PO73 PR83 PB60 PG50 and more...
Painting & drawing mediums + artist pigments
Watercolor
» 113 watercolor brands in the database, some highlights:
- A. Gallo Honey-Based Watercolor
- Blockx Aquarelles
- Da Vinci Watercolors
- Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolors
- Golden QOR Watercolor
- Holbein Artists' Watercolor (HWC)
- M. Graham & Co. Artists' Watercolor
- Maimeri MaimeriBlu
- Mijello Mission Gold Watercolor
- Old Holland Classic Watercolours
- Roman Szmal Aquarius
- Rosa Gallery Watercolour
- Royal Talens Rembrandt Water Colour
- Schmincke HORADAM Aquarell [Series 14]
- Sennelier l'Aquarelle
- Shinhan PWC
- Winsor & Newton Professional Water Colour
Water-Soluble Colored Pencil
» 17 water-soluble colored pencil brands in the database, some highlights:
- Caran d'Ache Museum Aquarelle
- Faber-Castell Albrecht Dürer
Acrylic Gouache
» 6 acrylic gouache brands in the database, some highlights:
- Holbein Acryla Gouache
- Turner Acryl Gouache
Oil
» 125 oil brands in the database, some highlights:
- Gamblin 1980 Oil Colors
- Golden Williamsburg
- Holbein Artists' Oil Color (HOC)
- Holbein Vernét Superior Artists' Oil Color
- Lefranc & Bourgeois Extra Fine Oil Paint
- M. Graham & Co. Artists' Oil Color
- Michael Harding Artists Oil Colours
- Old Holland Classic Oil Colours
- Schmincke Mussini [Series 10]
- Schmincke Norma [Series 11]
- Winsor & Newton Artists' Oil Colour
Water Mixable Oil
» 9 water mixable oil brands in the database, some highlights:
- Holbein Duo Aqua Oil
- Schmincke Norma Blue [Series 21]
- Winsor & Newton Artisan Water Mixable Oil Colour
Colored Pencil
» 24 colored pencil brands in the database, some highlights:
- Caran d'Ache Luminance 6901
- Derwent Lightfast Pencils
- Faber-Castell Polychromos 9201
- Koh-I-Noor Polycolor 3800
Gouache
» 45 gouache brands in the database, some highlights:
- Da Vinci Permanent Artists' Gouache
- Holbein Artists' Gouache
- Lefranc & Bourgeois LINEL Extra-Fine Gouache
- Royal Talens Gouache Extra Fine
- Schmincke HORADAM Gouache [Series 12]
- Shinhan Professional Designers Gouache
- Winsor & Newton Designers Gouache
Poster Color
» 4 poster color brands in the database, some highlights:
- Nicker Poster Colour
Acrylic
» 114 acrylic brands in the database, some highlights:
- Daler Rowney Cryla
- Daler Rowney System3 Acrylic
- Golden Heavy Body
- Golden OPEN
- Lascaux Artist
- Liquitex Heavy Body Acrylic
- Maimeri Brera
- Old Holland New Masters
- Schmincke PRIMAcryl [Series 13]
- Turner U-35
- Vallejo Acrylic Artist Color
- Winsor & Newton Professional Acrylic
Pigment, dry or paste
» 38 pigment, dry or paste brands in the database, some highlights:
- Blockx Pigment
- Couleurs Leroux Pigments Purs Leroux
- Guerra Pigment Dispersions
- Holbein Artists' Pigment
- Jackson's Artist Pigment
- Kremer Pigmente [Dry] Pigments
- L. Cornelissen & Son Pigments
- Old Holland Pigment
- Schmincke Pure Artists' Pigments [Series 18]
- Sennelier Dry Pigments
Soft Pastel
» 15 soft pastel brands in the database, some highlights:
- Holbein Artists' Soft Pastel
- PanPastel Artists' Pastel
Oil Pastel
» 9 oil pastel brands in the database, some highlights:
- Caran d'Ache Neopastel
And more mediums, including: egg temperas, encaustics, inks, acrylic inks, intaglio inks, liquid watercolors, resin-based restoration paints