Professional watercolor paints made in small batches with historic pigments and traditional handling. Rublev Colours Watercolors restore natural and historical colors to the artist’s palette—genuine single-pigment paints (where applicable), poured pans and 15 ml tubes, and a formulation built on classic watercolor ingredients rather than modern handling modifiers. Use this hub to shop the full range, build a palette with Triads and Sets, and compare granulation, staining, pigment codes, and permanence on the Watercolor Paint Specifications page.
Rublev Colours Watercolors—Like the Golden Age of Watercolors
Rublev Colours Potter's Pink Watercolor
Natural Pigments gives today’s artists new choices by making watercolor paint simple again. We restore natural and historical pigments to the artist’s palette, using the same ingredients that watercolor masters relied on from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries.
Authentic pigments: colours made from natural and historical pigments used by seventeenth– to nineteenth‑century masters.
Single‑pigment purity: genuine single‑pigment colours, available in tubes and cakes.
Small‑batch craftsmanship: made with gum arabic & sugar syrup—the essential ingredients of traditional watercolor; no thickeners, dextrin or synthetic modifiers.
Historic body colour feel: thicker consistency and unique handling reminiscent of early 19th‑century body colours.
Natural Pigments founders Tatiana and George talk with master watercolorist Michele Bajona about his portrait techniques, inspirations and materials. Watch as he reveals how he achieves expressive portraits with Rublev Colours Watercolors.
Join our Artist Materials Advisor for demonstrations of twelve new watercolor colours that span blues, greens, yellows, reds and purples. See each colour in action and discover how they expand your palette.
Rublev Colours Watercolors offer advantages over contemporary commercial watercolors. Using natural ingredients and traditional techniques, they provide artists with high‑quality colours that are rich, luminous and long‑lasting.
Superior Lightfastness
Natural pigments resist fading under sunlight and maintain vibrancy for decades—ideal for artworks that stand the test of time.
Unique Texture & Feel
Made with traditional ingredients and no synthetic additives, these watercolors have a distinctive consistency and handling that elevates your painting experience.
Mixability & Range
A wide range of single‑pigment colours mix easily to create a virtually unlimited palette of shades and hues.
An Investment in Quality
These paints offer exceptional value for artists seeking durability and authenticity, making them a smart investment for serious watercolorists.
See how we turn a watercolor wash into a single, comparable number using a paper‑corrected Granulation Index. This objective method helps you predict granulation across colours.
Learn our scientific yet artist‑friendly method for assessing staining vs lifting. Understand how we quantify residual colour and what it means for your work.
Watercolor paint consists of finely ground pigment suspended in a water‑soluble binder. Traditionally the binder is gum arabic dissolved in water with sugar or honey to act as a humectant and preservative. Our Rublev Colours Watercolors follow this historic formula—gum arabic and sugar syrup only—without modern thickeners or dextrin:contentReference[oaicite:0]{index=0}. Commercial watercolors may use dextrin, starch or gum tragacanth as alternative binders.
Watercolor is a versatile medium suitable for plein‑air sketches, still lifes, landscapes and portraits. Many artists use watercolor for small studies or preliminary colour plans before creating larger works. Because watercolor integrates well with coloured pencil, graphite and ink, it’s also popular for mixed‑media art.
Watercolor paintings can last for centuries if you choose pigments with good lightfastness, use an absorbent, acid‑free substrate and protect the work from direct ultraviolet light. Rublev Colours Watercolors use natural pigments that resist fading, and each colour’s lightfastness is rated in our Watercolor Paint Specifications table. Properly framed behind UV‑filtering glass, these paints maintain their vibrancy for decades.
For a detailed explanation of pigment composition and permanence, visit our Composition & Permanence page.
What are the best surfaces to apply watercolor paint?
Watercolor requires an absorbent surface for long‑lasting artwork. Cotton‑based watercolor paper is the most common support because it absorbs washes evenly and withstands repeated wetting. You can also paint on panels or fabric coated with an absorbent ground or primer formulated for watercolor.
What is the difference between watercolor paint and other paint media?
Watercolor is a transparent medium: thin layers allow light to reflect off the paper through the pigment, giving paintings a luminous quality. Unlike oil or acrylic, you cannot apply watercolor in thick, opaque layers to cover mistakes. However, because the binder remains water‑soluble, you can lift or lighten areas even after the paint dries; the amount of colour that can be removed depends on the pigment’s staining strength and the paper’s absorbency.
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