Sennelier Aquarelle Artist Quality Watercolour 12 Half Pans - Neutral 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. 

Create understated, elegant watercolour artworks with the Sennelier Artist Quality Watercolour 12 Half Pan Set – Neutral Colours Selection. Handcrafted in France using premium artist grade pigments and a traditional honey based binder, these half pans deliver consistent, professional quality colour with excellent permanence.

This carefully curated 12 colour set features soft, natural neutrals ideal for landscapes, portraits, and realistic shading. This formula glides smoothly, allowing effortless blending, layering, and subtle tonal variations, making it perfect for artists seeking precision and balance in their work.

Compact and travel friendly, this neutral set is suitable for professional artists, hobbyists, and watercolour enthusiasts who want a versatile palette for refined, natural effects.

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 - Indigo (308), Caput Mortum (919), Payne's Grey (703), Neutral Tint (931), Van Dyck Brown (407), Warm Sepia (440), Transparent Brown (435), Warm Grey (705), Sennelier Grey (709), Greenish Umber (203), Light Grey (707), and Raw Sepia (443).

• 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