Kuretake Gansai Tambi Irodori Kobako Watercolour Set - Limited Edition

Professional-grade Japanese watercolor and brush pen set designed for versatile creative work with unique granulating and shimmering effect, featuring traditional Japanese solid watercolours for professional artists and crafters.

This limited edition set contains 5 pans of Kuretake Granulating colours and Metallic Golden Pearl tinted pans, along with a Zig Fine Brush Pen and a Kuretake Water brush.

The different types of pigments produce dreamy and unique textures when the differences of their pigment particles meet.

Gansai paints are a specific kind of Japanese watercolour with a slightly different binder than western paints. It's this binder that allows the paints to be applied more thickly like a gouache, and makes them dry with a slight sheen if they are applied thickly. It is a solid transparent watercolour that does not lose its vividness even when mixing colours due to the uniformity of pigment particles. When the pigment particles are uniform, the light is reflected constantly, so even if they are mixed, vivid colour development is possible.

Kuretake's Transparent Watercolour is a high quality paint that delivers brilliant colour. The finely ground pigment particles allow for blending, layering, and adding a colour gradation. These watercolours are built to last due to the paint's highly lightfast qualities and non-toxic pigments.

Handcrafted by traditional methods and free from odours, the solid water-based pigments in this set are more opaque than other brands and offer a smooth, creamy consistency when mixed together. Gansai paints are very pigmented and are thicker and creamier than Western watercolours. They tend to be less transparent than Western or European watercolours but can be thinned with water to create more transparent washes. 

*Gansai pan may show cracking due to a dry environment, occasionally the Gansai pan may look rough due to tiny air bubbles. None of these affects the quality or method of use.

Features:

• 5 x Individual Pans: Starry Colours: (903) Yellow Gold, (906) White Gold, (771) Aurora Red, (773) Aurora Orange and (775) Aurora Violet and one empty pan for mixing

• Water based pigment

• High opaque ink

• Non-toxic

• Lightfast

• Fine brush pen developed with manga artists delivers precise lines with water resistant pigment ink once dry

• Compact water brush pen allows easy control of water flow for detailed work and broad strokes without extra cleaning tools

• Safe to use with xylene free formulation compliant with ASTM D 4236 and ACMI AP certification

• Made in Japan

About the brand

Kuretake was founded in Nara Japan in 1902 as an ink manufacturer, and in 2022 they celebrated their 120th anniversary. Even now, at their headquarters in Nara, they carry out all sequences of product creation from product planning and design, manufacturing, and quality control testing.