Pigment based art materials

& Color theory

What can you find here?

Information on 36925 art products (colour pencils, pastels, watercolour, acrylic, gouache, oil paints etc.) with 4218 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, chroma, 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

 

Blockx Aquarelles 184 Zinc White PW4 watercolor swatch 184 Zinc White PW4 +
Blockx Aquarelles 253 Fr. Ultramarine Blue Deep PB29 watercolor swatch 253 Fr. Ultramarine Blue Deep PB29 Mix with a different color

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Color mixer is an experimental feature using Mixbox: Pigment-Based Color Mixing.
(Mixing within the sRGB gamut, assuming the colors were opaque colors.)

Color mixer is an experimental feature using the paints' spectral curves, measured on masstone
to predict the mixing path, assuming the paints were opaque.

Random Swatch

Sennelier l'Aquarelle 641 Sennelier : Orange PO73 watercolor swatch
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Pigment Database — Color Codes

The database contains 459 artists' pigments, with references to paints. The most popular pigments:

PW6 PR101 PG7 PY42 PB29 PBk7 PBr7 PY3 PB15:3 PBk11 PB15 PV23 PY74 PV19 PW4 PR122 PY35 PY83 PBk9 PR108 PG17 PB27 PY43 PR112 PB28 PY1 PR254 PO20 PBk6 PG36 PB15:1 PR170 PV15 PY65 PG18 PO13 PR102 PB36 PW20 PY53 PY150 PY14 PY184 PY154 PR83 PO73 PB60 PG50 and more...

Painting & drawing mediums + artist pigments

Watercolor

» 116 watercolor brands in the database, some highlights:

Water-Soluble Colored Pencil

» 17 water-soluble colored pencil brands in the database, some highlights:

Acrylic Gouache

» 6 acrylic gouache brands in the database, some highlights:

Oil

» 125 oil brands in the database, some highlights:

Water Mixable Oil

» 9 water mixable oil brands in the database, some highlights:

Colored Pencil

» 24 colored pencil brands in the database, some highlights:

Gouache

» 47 gouache brands in the database, some highlights:

Poster Color

» 4 poster color brands in the database, some highlights:

Acrylic

» 117 acrylic brands in the database, some highlights:

Pigment, dry or paste

» 40 pigment, dry or paste brands in the database, some highlights:

Soft Pastel

» 15 soft pastel brands in the database, some highlights:

Oil Pastel

» 9 oil pastel brands in the database, some highlights:

And more mediums, including: egg temperas, encaustics, inks, acrylic inks, intaglio inks, liquid watercolors, resin-based restoration paints