Sinopia bundle

New! Limited edition Sinopia bundle.

The bundle  includes: a Sinopia palette, four handmade drawing stones in 30g (Raw Sienna Mt. Amiata, Burnt Sienna Mt. Amiata, Ercolano red and Verona green), a bottle of drawing medium and a Fabriano artistico watercolor paper pack.

The Sinopia palette is a special edition assortment of natural Mediterranean tones inspired by classical drawing traditions. Ideal for painting architecture, nature studies, figure drawing, travel and urban sketching. This timeless palette is by nature beautiful and harmonic and includes foundational colors for painting and drawing. These historical ochres, siennas, umbers and neutrals compose a limited palette often used for preparatory sketches and value studies.

This collection takes its name from Sinopia, an ancient red-brown earth pigment imported to Europe from Cappadocia through the port of Sinop, a Greek colony on the Black Sea. Sinopia was famously used in the Renaissance to make the preparatory drawing for frescoes directly onto the wall. These drawings became simply known as Sinopie.

Handmade watercolor set of twelve individually wrapped half pans in a metal tin with two mixing surfaces, a color chart printed on Arches watercolor paper, and an artist grade pocket brush by Tintoretto size 6. The Sinopia handmade watercolor set is packaged with original marbled paper by a Florentine artisan workshop and comes inside an elegant gift box.

Colors in the Sinopia palette:
Titanium White (PW6) - Excellent lightfastness
Gold ochre (PY43) - Excellent lightfastness
Raw Sienna (PY43) - Excellent lightfastness
Burnt Sienna, Mt. Amiata (PBr7) - Excellent lightfastness
Venetian red (PR102) - Excellent lightfastness
Morellone (PR101) - Excellent lightfastness
Ultramarine Blue dark (PB29) - Excellent lightfastness
Verdaccio (PBr7, PBk11) - Excellent lightfastness
Green umber (PBr8) - Excellent lightfastness
Burnt Umber brownish (PBr8) - Excellent lightfastness
Burnt Umber dark (PBr7) - Excellent lightfastness
Roman black earth (PBk11) - Excellent lightfastness

Made by hand in Assisi, our watercolors are crafted according to a traditional recipe of raw pigments, gum arabic, local honey, rosemary essential oil and a wetting agent. This artisanal process creates a very pigmented and luminous paint that activates beautifully when wet.

A. Gallo Colors are 100% handmade. Pans may contain small imperfections like tiny bubbles and minor blemishes. This does not affect the quality of the paint and is a sign of the human touch that goes into making each and every unique pan!

Half pans present a choking hazard and are not intended for use by children. Please also keep out of reach of pets. A. Gallo Colors are all cadmium, cobalt, lead and mercury free.