Sennelier Aquarelle Artist Quality Watercolour 12 Half Pans - Bright Colours Selection

The roots of Sennelier watercolours are to be found in the Impressionist school. At that time, painters drew their inspiration from nature and set out to reproduce natural light. Watercolour technique offered spontaneity, lightness of touch, fluidity and transparency allowing a quick translation of a particular light, vibration or shape. 

Elevate your watercolour artwork with the Sennelier Aquarelle Artist Quality Watercolour 12 Half Pan Set – Bright Colours Selection. Made in France with professional-grade pigments and a traditional honey-based binder, these half pans deliver strikingly vivid, highly pigmented colours with excellent permanence.

This 12 colour set is specially curated for maximum vibrancy, perfect for bold landscapes, expressive abstracts, and artworks that demand eye catching intensity. Each half pan glides smoothly across paper, offering effortless blending, layering, and vibrant washes for dynamic effects.

Compact and travel friendly, this set is ideal for professional artists, hobbyists, and watercolour enthusiasts who want a powerful, intense palette at their fingertips.

Watercolours Made in France using traditional methods

L'Aquarelle Sennelier has been produced in the same way for more than a century using the best pigments and top quality Kordofan Gum Arabic as a bonding agent. This mix of natural ingredients produces colours which have a smooth, bright texture and offer lively, colourful shades. The Gum Arabic and honey combination offers incomparable quality of application, producing superb washes. Then, this base is mixed with pigments and carefully ground. Sennelier makes sure to wet the pigments in purified water (with no mineral salts) for 24 hours before mixing them in with the bonding agent. This improves the way in which the colours and bonding merge together, in turn bringing out the full beauty of the colours.

Sennelier watercolours are ground in the traditional way using grindstones rotating slowly so as not to heat up the paste. This operation is carried out in several stages until the paste are as fine as possible thus getting rid of any particles which might impair the perfection of the wash.

This exceptional and very high quality watercolour will help you make your works even more powerful due to the liveliness and purity of the hues. The colours mix together perfectly, offering superbly subtle shades. 

Features:

• Watercolour Half Pan Set of 12 colours - Lemon Yellow (501), Indian Yellow (517), Sennelier Orange (641), Rose Madder Lake (690), Opera Rose (659), Helios Purple (671), Dioxazine Purple (917), Ultramarine Light (312), Cinereous Blue (344), Turquoise Green (843), Sennelier Green (817), and Bright Yellow Green (871).

• An increased longevity of colour, radiance and luminosity

• Features a compact and lightweight

• High quality pigments

• Colours blend perfectly together and give beautiful shades

• Perfect for the travelling artist, working plein air or simply as a gift