Let them build their perfect palette
Gift cards can be used toward Rublev Colours watercolors, watercolor sets, brushes, grounds, and more. It’s an ideal option for students, professionals, and serious hobbyists who enjoy curating their own tools.
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Curated Watercolor Gifts
Watercolor sets for artists who care about color and permanence
Rublev Colours watercolors combine historical pigments with modern research, giving painters expressive color, beautiful handling, and outstanding lightfastness.
- Curated palettes organized by subject and working style: portrait, plein air, modern color, and more.
- Studio-tested selections that make it easy to build a reliable, long-term watercolor palette.
- Gift-ready sets, from compact travel palettes to the semi-moist “Tired to be Square” round pans.
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Natural Pigments Gift Card
When you are not sure which palette they already own—or you know they love choosing their own materials—a Natural Pigments gift card is the safest way to delight a watercolorist.
Build Your Own Palette
Build Your Own Watercolor Palette
When do not see a collection of colors you want, build your own palette of Rublev Colours Watercolors. Select six 15 ml tubes from the entire range of colors.
Build the perfect palette
Create your own start set of replenish your palette with 10% savings. Select from six 15 ml tubes (minimum set) up to the entire range of colors.
Historic Pigments Watercolor Sets
Historic pigments for portrait and classical work
These palettes focus on earth colors, historical pigments, and balanced complements inspired by traditional figure and landscape painting. Ideal for artists who want subtle, lifelike mixtures and palettes informed by art history.
Complete Flesh Tint Watercolor Palette
Expands on the basic flesh palette with additional warms, cools, and modifiers for full-length figures, complex lighting, and a broader range of complexions.
Tired to be Square V – Historical Colors
NewSemi-moist watercolors in round aluminum pans, presented in a circular aluminum case with a glass lid. This edition focuses on historical pigments selected for classical figure and landscape painting.
Travel Palette – Historical Watercolors
NewTwelve half pans built around traditional earths and key accents, arranged in a robust travel palette. A focused selection for on-location sketching with Old Master-inspired color.
19th Century Watercolor Palette
A curated set inspired by 19th-century watercolor practice—balanced earths, traditional blues, and transparent accents suitable for romantic landscapes and figure work.
Modern Pigments Watercolor Sets
Modern color with clean mixing and high chroma
These palettes highlight modern, high-chroma pigments that mix clean secondary colors, luminous darks, and contemporary accents for illustration, abstraction, and bold representational work.
Tired to be Square VI – Cadmiums
NewSemi-moist round pans in a circular aluminum case, focused on modern, powerful, and saturated washes.
Tired to be Square VII – Cobalts
NewA semi-moist round-pan set oriented toward modern neutrals, deep chromatic darks, and subtle grays. Together with Tired to be Square VI – Cadmiums, these sets are ideal for urban sketching and atmospheric scenes.
Travel Palette – Modern Colors
NewA concise 12-color selection of modern pigments that delivers bright primaries, intense secondaries, and clear glazing colors in a rugged travel box.
Introductory Modern Watercolor Palette
A broad modern palette in generous full pans, designed as a primary working set for artists who prefer contemporary pigments and powerful color.
Plein Air Watercolor Sets
Palettes tuned for light, weather, and working on location
These sets favor reliable earths, clean blues and greens, and practical darks that perform in changing outdoor light. Ideal for sketchbooks, travel journals, and plein air campaigns.
Tired to be Square IV – Mediterranean
NewA semi-moist round-pan set focused on practical outdoor colors: foliage, earth, stone, and atmospheric grays in a single compact case.
Tired to be Square VIII – Armenian Earths
NewRublev Colors created special set of colors to preserve the legacy of historical Armenian pigments, and contribution to this proud tradition.
Travel Palette – Plein Air Watercolor Set
NewA 12-color half-pan set designed for fast outdoor work. Skies, greens, warms, and mixing darks are arranged for efficient access on a compact mixing surface.
Introductory Watercolor Palette (24 half pans)
A generous range of earths, primaries, and modifiers in half pans—ideal as a primary plein air palette or a comprehensive teaching set.
Introductory Watercolor Sets
Thoughtful starting points for new Rublev Colours users
These sets are ideal for artists getting started with Rublev Colours or for gifting to painters who are ready to move beyond student-grade paints. They include customizable options and semi-moist “Tired to be Square” palettes that travel easily and invite experimentation.
Build Your Own Watercolor Palette
Start with an empty palette and add the Rublev Colours pans you want. This option is perfect for artists who already know their preferred pigments or are following a specific teaching palette.
Holiday Watercolor Gift Set
A ready-to-give selection that combines a curated watercolor palette with useful studio accessories, packed for gift-giving during the holiday season.
Tired to be Square I – Pan Watercolors
The original semi-moist round-pan Rublev Colours set in its distinctive circular case. A great first experience of the series and a compact companion to any sketchbook.
Tired to be Square II – Extended Palette
A companion semi-moist round pan set that broadens the range of hues and neutrals, ideal for pairing with Tired to be Square I or using as a stand-alone compact studio.
Not sure where to start?
How to choose a Rublev Colours watercolor gift
Every painter works differently. These quick guidelines can help you match a curated set to the artist in your life—or to your own studio needs.
For portrait & figure painters
Choose the Basic or Complete Flesh Tint Watercolor Palettes or Tired to be Square V – Historical Colors for subtle, lifelike skin tones based on historically informed earth palettes.
For plein air & sketchbook work
The plein air sets, travel palettes, and Tired to be Square III & IV are tuned for outdoor color and compact, durable cases.
For modern color lovers
Look to Tired to be Square VI & VII, the Travel Palette – Modern Colors, or the Introductory Modern Watercolor Palette for high-chroma, clean-mixing modern pigments.
For beginners & flexible gifting
Choose the Introductory Watercolor Palettes, the Holiday Watercolor Gift Set, or a Gift Card or Build Your Own Palette option for artists still discovering their preferences.
