Classic Flesh Tones

The Flesh Tint Palette gives you an introduction to watercolors used to make flesh tints during the 18th and 19th centuries. These colors can be blended and used with other watercolors.

The Flesh Tint Palette includes three basic colors. The palette includes one full-sized tube each of three colors: Verona Green Earth, Italian Yellow Ochre and Red Sartorius Earth. Now you can try these three colors in full-sized tubes (20 ml) for the low price of $19.25 (you save 40%), which includes shipping anywhere in the U.S.

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The Flesh Tint Palette includes one 20 ml tube each of:

Rublev Colours Watercolors were featured in an article by Butch Krieger in the April 2006 issue of Watercolor Magic magazine.

Rublev Colours Watercolors are based on single, natural mineral and historical pigments that give you the authentic colors of past watercolors masters. Rublev Colours Watercolors features such genuine colors as natural ultramarine (lapis lazuli), azurite, malachite, among many others and are available in 20 ml tubes and full and half pan semi-moist cakes.

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Painting Flesh Tones

The revival of traditional art styles and techniques has burgeoned into a full-fledged Second Renaissance. And this re-awakening has sparked a renewed interest in the colors used by the great masters of the past. It was thus inevitable that someone would produce the traditional pigments in watercolors.

When the new Rublev Colours line of watercolors hit the market, I had the good fortune of being the first author to write about it. In the April 2006 issue of Watercolor Magic, I introduced the Rublev Colours line of watercolors to the magazine's readers. To exemplify the Rublev Colours line, I used the three following illustrations.

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Butch Krieger

Butch has been a full-time artist for over 30 years. For the first 18 of those years, he was a television news artist, specializing in courtroom illustrations. His clientele included CBS Network News, CNN and PM Magazine, as well as the Associated Press, United Press International, USA Today and the German news magazine, Neue Review. He is now a portrait painter and sculptor, as well as a figure and trompe l’oeil still life painter. He has done many portraits of cowboy celebrities, some of which you can see on his web site.

As a painter, Butch mostly uses modern adaptations of what is called the "old masters technique," which is also known as the "indirect method." This is a method where one builds up a painting in accumulative layers of paint. Although very traditional in this sense, he takes full advantage of modern materials that the old masters did not have.

Butch is also a writer and workshop instructor. He is a Contributing Editor for Artist's Magazine, and he writes for the Pastel Journal, Watercolor Magic, The Portrait Signature and for North Light Books. His latest book, Watercolor Basics: People, shows how to paint people using watercolors.

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New Rublev Colours
Semi-Moist Pan Watercolors

Rublev Colours features such genuine watercolors as natural ultramarine (lapis lazuli), azurite, malachite, among many others. These single pigment paints available in moist (tubes) and semi-moist (pans) watercolors are made with the same pigments used by masters of past centuries. While the trend today in commercial watercolors is to suppress pigment textures in favor of homogeneous, flat color, the earth and mineral pigments used in Rublev Colours Watercolors feature larger particles that produce granulation effects without the use of surfactants, such as ox gall.

Unlike pan watercolors made with the extrusion process, Rublev Colours Watercolors are poured—a process preserving the integrity of each color and resulting in semi-moist cakes that respond instantly to a wet brush.

18th Century Watercolor Palettes

Rublev Colours introduces you to the natural palettes used by 18th century watercolorists, such as John Robert Cozens, Thomas Girtin, Paul Sandby and others. The muted colors of their paintings rarely departs from soft blue or green colors, accented with browns, reds and yellows. By using a subdued palette, the effects of light and dark are made more forceful.

Cozens Watercolor Palette

The Rublev Colours Cozens Palette introduces you to the natural palette used by the 18th century watercolorist, John Robert Cozens (1752–1797). The muted color scheme in Cozens' Italian paintings rarely departs from grayish blue or green colors, accented with browns, reds and yellows.

The Cozens Palette includes the subtle hues used by the British watercolorist -- one half pan each of eight watercolors: Vivianite (Blue Ochre), Verona Green Earth, Lemon Ochre, Venetian Red, Indian Red, Italian Burnt Sienna, Cyprus Burnt Umber Warm, German Vine Black, Italian Burnt Sienna and the Rublev Colours Travel Case.

Rublev Colours Cozens Palette

18th Century British Watercolor Palette

The 18th Century Watercolor Palette includes the subtle hues used by British watercolorists of the 18th century -- one full pan each of twelve watercolors: Lazurite (lapis lazuli), Nicosia Green Earth, Verona Green Earth, Italian Yellow Earth, Gold Ochre, Italian Dark Ochre, Venetian Red, Ercolano Red, Italian Burnt Sienna, French Raw Umber, Cyprus Burnt Umber Warm, Vine Black and the Rublev Colours Full Pan Case.

Rublev Colours 18th Century Palette

Girtin Watercolor Palette

The Girtin Watercolor Palette includes the subtle hues used by the British watercolorist, Thomas Girtin (1775–1802) -- one half pan each of eight watercolors: Lazurite (lapis lazuli), Celadonite (green earth), Lemon Ochre, French Red Ochre, French Burnt Sienna, French Raw Umber, Cyprus Burnt Umber Warm, Vine Black and the Rublev Colours Case. Now you can try these eight half-pan watercolors in the case for one low price.

Rublev Colours Girtin Palette