Phthalo Green – A Versatile Green

PG7 – Transparent – Non-granular

Phthalo Green is an essential pigment in watercolor, valued for its vibrant intensity, transparency, and exceptional staining power. This cool green with subtle bluish undertones offers remarkable depth, making it perfect for capturing the richness of lush foliage, tropical landscapes, and emerald waters.ed with phthalo blue, it gives a very nice range of turquoises. With the yellows to obtain a very wide range of greens. With the earths of earthy greens and with the burnt umber a dark green.

Green useful for landscapes in particular. Maybe nuanced with phthalo green or yellows.

Dioxazine mauve

PV23 – Transparent

Dioxazine mauve has a powerful color, highly valued for its intensity and rich chromatic depth. This cool, dark, and saturated violet with bluish undertones offers excellent transparency while maintaining a very high tinting strength.

When mixed, it produces a wide range of violets, colored greys, or deep chromatic blacks, especially when combined with reds or blues. It also excels in glazing, where its transparency and depth bring a unique dimension to layered applications.

Highly lightfast, PV23 is a modern synthetic organic pigment that has earned a place on the artist’s palette for its versatility, strength, and distinctive beauty.

Emerald Green – The Mineral Brilliance

PG18 – Semi-transparent – Granular

Emerald Green is a brilliant and mineral hue, prized for its softness and granulation. Derived from the hydrated chromium oxide pigment, it offers exceptional stability and excellent lightfastness.

Bayeux Violet Hue

PR122 + PR179 + PR19 – Transparent

Bayeux Violet Hue is a shade similar to the original Bayeux violet. It is a deep color, somewhere between a bluish violet and a soft, subdued purple. Inspired by the rich tones of antique embroidery, it evokes a sense of nobility. Transparent and high in tinting strength, it is well-suited to both subtle glazing and vibrant modeling.

Phthalo Blue 

PB15:3 – Transparent

Phthalo blue is an intense, deep, and highly transparent pigment, appreciated for its exceptional tinting strength.

A cool blue with slightly green undertones, it offers excellent lightfastness and blends beautifully with other colors. Ideal for glazing, bright skies, or vibrant shadows, it also produces stunning turquoises (when mixed with phthalo green) or violets (with Isaro pink) depending on the combination. A modern, vivid, and essential color on the oil painter’s palette.

Chrome Oxide Green – A Mineral and Earthy Green

PG17 - Opaque - Non-granulating

Chromium  oxide green is a mineral pigment valued for its stability and subtle tone, making it ideal for landscapes and natural subjects. With a deep, slightly neutral green hue, it fits seamlessly into the palettes of watercolor artists seeking balanced and realistic shades.mono pigment.

Cobalt Violet

PV14 – Semi-Opaque

This genuine dark cobalt violet is a rare and precious mineral pigment, valued for its exceptional lightfastness and subtle chromatic character. A bluish violet with gentle nuances, it offers soft opacity and a smooth, buttery texture—ideal for nuanced blends, colored shadows, and muted atmospheres.

Made through a complex process using cobalt phosphate, this pigment requires time-consuming production, costly raw materials, and expert craftsmanship. Its rarity, combined with its unique artistic qualities, justifies its high price. Inalterable and refined, PV14 is a pigment of choice for discerning artists seeking an authentic and timeless color.

Cobalt blue

PB28 - Semi opaque

It is the bluest of blues.
Genuine cobalt blue is a classic mineral pigment, known for its vibrant tone, valued for its softness, luminosity, and excellent lightfastness. With its pure blue hue and moderate opacity, it lends itself equally well to subtle mixes and delicate glazing. Ideal for skies, light shadows, and cool skin tones, it creates beautiful soft violets when combined with Isaro Pink or deep pyrrole red. A must-have on the palette for balanced and refined harmonies. bluest of the blues. This blue becomes even brighter when mixed with whites. Very useful for mixing.

Phthalo Green Yellow Shade – A Burst of Freshness

PG36 – Transparent – Non-granulating

Phthalo Green Yellow Shade is a vibrant and luminous hue, perfect for adding freshness and intensity to your compositions. With exceptional transparency and remarkable tinting strength, this pigment offers a wide range of shades, from brilliant greens to more natural tones when mixed.

Prussian Blue

PB27 – Transparent

Deep, intense, and slightly greenish, Prussian Blue is a historic pigment prized for its exceptional tinting strength and high transparency. It allows the creation of bluish blacks and a sumptuous range of greens. Its transparency makes it an excellent choice for glazing.
This blue is highly siccative and accelerates the drying time of the colors it is mixed with.

This blue is very drier-reactive, accelerating the drying power of the colours with which it is mixed. Tint power is extremely strong.

Sap Sap Green – A Classic and Natural Green

PG36 + PY139 - Transparent - Non-granulating

This deep yellow-green, with its luminous transparency, is prized for its ability to create subtle botanical shades. Ideal for delicate foliage, moss, and pastoral landscapes, it blends seamlessly into washes and mixes beautifully with other pigments.

Cerulean Blue

PB35 – Semi-opaque

Cerulean blue is a cool, luminous mineral pigment with a slight greenish undertone. Highly valued for painting clear skies and bright atmospheres, it offers excellent lightfastness and moderate covering power. Stable and unobtrusive in mixtures, cerulean blue is a well-balanced hue, perfect for creating soft, airy harmonies.

Perylene Green - The Dark Elegance

PBk31 - Transparent - Non-granulating

Perylene green is a unique and versatile pigment that brings rich depth and subtle intensity to watercolor works. Originating from the organic pigment family, this dark, earthy green has an almost black hue with greenish undertones, making it ideal for wooded landscapes, deep shadows, and atmospheric scenes. Thanks to its composition, it offers excellent stability and remarkable permanence.

Deep Blue

PW4 + PB28 + PB15 – Semi-opaque

Deep Blue is a harmonious blend of pigments, designed to capture the beauty of cobalt blue while offering a more accessible alternative.

Combining the softness of PB28 with the depth of PB15 and the brightness of zinc white (PW4), it results in a luminous, well-balanced blue. Ideal for skies and floral compositions, it blends easily to create subtle and refined shades.

The Nordman Green – A Unique Green

PG7 + PV16 - Semi-transparent - Granular

Nordman Green is an excellent choice for painting landscapes, forests, and foliage, adding natural richness and extra dimension to vegetal scenes thanks to the textured nuances it creates. It is also ideal for creating cool shadows and subtle shades in nature works or floral compositions. Its deep and balanced tone makes it particularly suited for winter scenes or muted atmospheres, but it can also be used in mixes to create more vibrant greens.y green color.

Indigo Blue

PBr7 + PB29 + PB15:3 – Semi-opaque

Indigo blue is a deep hue with subtle greenish undertones, created from a blend of burnt umber, ultramarine blue, and phthalo blue. Dark and intense, it evokes stormy seas and dramatic skies. Ideal for seascapes, nocturnal landscapes, or colored shadows, it lends itself to rich and expressive mixtures. Its beautiful depth and semi-transparency make it a versatile, powerful, and evocative blue.

Peridot Green – The Light of a Precious Gem

PG36 + PY154 + Pearlescent – Transparent – Slightly Granulating

Peridot Green is a radiant and luminous color, inspired by the precious gemstone of the same name. This light green, with golden-yellow and green reflections revealed by peridot, also known as olivine, boasts a warm and vibrant hue that evokes sunlit foliage or the first spring shoots of enchanting landscapes.

Ultramarine Blue

PB29 – Semi-opaque

Ultramarine blue is a deep and intense pigment with a slight violet undertone. It is ideal both for glazing and for creating subtle blends.
Its rich chromatic depth makes it an expressive and vibrant blue. When combined with Isaro Pink (PR122), it produces a beautiful range of luminous mauves, perfect for floral compositions.
A must-have on any palette, ultramarine blue combines depth, lightness, and intensity.

Azure Blue – The Freshness of the Skies

PB36 – Semi-transparent – Granulating

Azure blue is a luminous and soothing shade that evokes the vast summer skies and crystal-clear waters. This pigment, part of the cobalt blue family, is cherished for its subtly green undertone and gentle quality, making it an ideal choice for depicting aerial or marine landscapes.

Indanthrene blue

PB60 – Transparent

Indanthrene blue is a deep blue with slightly violet undertones.

Highly valued for its dark richness and transparency, it is ideal for glazing, deep shadows, and nocturnal atmospheres. With excellent lightfastness, it blends beautifully with reds to create intense violets, or with greens for subtle cool tones. It is a powerful and essential blue for enriching a contemporary palette. touch of red.

Caribbean Blue - Tropical Radiance

PB28 - Semi-Transparent - Granulating

Caribbean Blue is a vibrant hue that captures the brilliant light of tropical lagoons and crystal-clear waters. With its fresh and turquoise tone, this pigment provides luminous intensity, perfect for expressing the energy of marine landscapes, radiant skies, or tropical scenes.

This versatile blue harmonizes beautifully with Isaro Light Yellow to create vivid, striking greens. Paired with reds or pinks, it produces soft and subtle purples, ideal for floral or atmospheric compositions.

Yellow Ochre

PY42 – Semi-opaque

Yellow ochre is a natural mineral pigment, soft and warm, appreciated for its stability and understated elegance.
With its earthy yellow tone, it’s perfect for landscapes, skin tones, backgrounds, and classical compositions.
It offers excellent lightfastness and balanced coverage, and can be used both pure and in mixtures.
Yellow ochre brings soft, natural tones to the palette—ideal for creating harmonious and timeless color ranges.

Very bPhthalo Blue - A Luminous Blue

PB15:3 - Transparent - Non-Granulating

Phthalo Blue is particularly prized for seascapes and clear skies, where its transparency and depth truly shine. It can also be used in layering to enrich darkeautiful blue with a shade having an underlying green tone.

With phthalo green it forms very beautiful turquoise. With the yellows of the beautiful greens. With the ocher of the more muted greens and with the pink or the purple Isaro a beautiful range of mauves.

Red Ochre

PR102 – Semi-opaque

Red ochre is a natural, earthy pigment—warm and deep—used since Antiquity. With its nuanced orange-red hue, it brings strength, softness, and warmth to compositions. Covering, lightfast, and non-toxic, it is ideal for landscapes, warm skin tones, or rich backgrounds. It pairs beautifully with other ochres, greens, and blues to create natural, balanced harmonies. A true essential on any classical palette.

Ultramarine Blue - Between History and Modernity

PB29 - Semi-transparent - Granulating

Ultramarine Blue is a deep, rich hue, valued for its intense vibrancy and its ability to capture light, making it ideal for skies, oceans, and delicate shadows.Very useful for composing magnificent mauves, especially with quinacridones like Isaro pink for example. With black or burnt sienna, it makes it possible to obtain very beautiful Payne grays and with burnt umber to create a beautiful indigo.

Cobalt Blue - An Iconic Blue

PB28 - Semi-transparent - Granulating

Ideal for landscapes, Cobalt Blue excels in skies, calm waters, and distant mountains. Its granulating nature is perfect for textured effects and organic details.e. Bright and close to primary blue. We can define it as the most blue of blues because it does not draw on green (like Prussian blue) or red (like overseas).

English Red

PR101 – Opaque

English Red is a synthetic iron oxide pigment, deep and warm, with a reddish-brown undertone. Highly opaque, stable, and lightfast, it offers a matte texture ideal for backgrounds, skin tones (when combined with Old Yellow), and warm-toned landscapes. Its earthy richness allows it to blend harmoniously with ochres, greens, or blues, bringing balance and subtlety to compositions.y burnt orange.

Indigo Blue - A Historic Blue

PB29 + PBr7 + PB15 - Opaque - Moderately Granulating

With its granulating texture and natural depth, Indigo Blue is perfect for representing dramatic atmospheres, starry skies, or reflections on water. Its ability to layer in fine washes or be used opaquely makes it a favored choice for artists seeking variety in their compositions.

Burnt Sienna

PBr7 – Semi-opaque

Burnt sienna is a natural pigment with warm, deep tones, obtained by calcining raw sienna.

With its rich reddish-brown hue, it brings warmth, balance, and strength to compositions. Highly stable, non-toxic, and with good covering power, it is ideal for shadows, dark skin tones, landscapes, and warm backgrounds. It blends harmoniously with blues, greens, and ochres. A timeless classic on every painter’s palette.deep and intense reddish brown has a high drying power. So, is excellent for making preliminary sketches with a very diluated first coat.

Very nice cold, deep gray, turning bPayne’s Grey - A Textured Grey

PBK11 + PB29 + PB15 - Opaque - Granulating

This hue, due to its harmonious nature and mixing potential, remains a top choice for watercolorists seeking refinement and delicacy in their compositions. It allows for subtle contrasts, making it ideal for working on stormy skies, nocturnal landscapes, and creating atmospheric gradients.lue. Useful as a contrast color.

Raw Sienna

PBr7 – Semi-opaque

Raw sienna is a classic mineral pigment with warm, soft, earthy tones. Its luminous yellowish-brown hue makes it ideal for skin tones, landscapes, and underpainting. Stable, non-toxic, and with good drying power, it dries quickly—perfect for sketches or compositional bases. It blends harmoniously with blues, greens, and reds to create natural, balanced mixes. A discreet yet essential staple on any painter’s palette. is darker than yellow ochre but has the same undertone.
This natural earth produces outstanding transparency effect.

Prussian Blue - The First Modern Synthetic Pigment

PB27 - Transparent - Non-Granulating

Prussian Blue is an essential hue for watercolor artists. Rich in history, intensity, and versatility, it offers endless creative possibilities, whether for landscapes, portraits, or abstract works.

Raw Umber

PBr7 – Semi-opaque

Raw umber is a traditional earthy pigment with a deep brown tone and a slight greenish cast. Very stable, non-toxic, and with good covering power, it is ideal for soft shadows, underpainting, landscapes, and textured effects.

Its low saturation allows for subtle color modulation without overpowering mixes. It blends easily with blues, reds, or ochres to create natural, balanced tones. An essential for creating calm, harmonious compositions.

Burnt Umber

PBr7 – Semi-opaque

Burnt umber is a natural pigment with deep brown tones enriched by a warm, slightly reddish hue. Highly covering, lightfast, and non-toxic, it is ideal for shadows, dark backgrounds, landscapes, and warm skin tones.
It has good drying power, making it an excellent choice for underpainting or quick sketching. It blends harmoniously with blues, greens, and reds to create natural and balanced mixtures.