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Handcrafted Watercolor Paint

A BLEND OF ART, SCIENCE, AND HISTORY. 

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Limn Colors closed in December 2019. Our paints are now available exclusively at FLAX art & design, while supplies last.

 

Limn Colors creates hand-mulled, artist-grade watercolor paints that highlight the unique characteristics of each individual pigment.

Paints are made from scratch, with premium pigments and no fillers, and packaged in 3d printed pans. The product line features historic and traditional colors alongside modern hues.

 
 

COLOR STORIES

Our blog features articles about painting, pigments, paint, and color. Learn the story behind the colors in your palette!

COLOR STORY
Pigment Hunt: Oakland, CA
Pigment Hunt: Oakland, CA

Recap of the ochre hunt in the Oakland hills and subsequent paintmaking with wild pigments.

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Palette Scout: The Search for Salmon and Sage
Palette Scout: The Search for Salmon and Sage

Palette Scout challenge: find three paints that can be mixed for an artwork that uses the given color scheme.

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Ultramarine Blue
Ultramarine Blue

Ultramarine blue is a vivid, lightfast, granulating watercolor. The precious made accessible.

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Caput Mortuum
Caput Mortuum

Limn Colors caput mortuum, made from a rich brown hematite pigment, produces beautiful color variation and sediment.

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Cadmium Red
Cadmium Red

Cadmium red is an opaque, lightfast, staining, high-tinting, stop-you-in-your tracks, bright red paint.

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Ivory Black & Iron Oxide Black
Ivory Black & Iron Oxide Black

Ivory black marries bone black and mars black pigments for beautiful texture, opacity, and darkness.

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Repost @flaxart ・・・ Limn Colors watercolors are available exclusively at Flax, online and in-stores. Watercolor half pans handmade in Berkeley. Colors to die for! FlaxArt.com ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤 #limncolors #handmadewatercolors #handmulled #berkeley #sma
For sale $1500. Must be picked up this week in Berkeley or Alameda, CA. The last major thing to sell for the studio closing is this three roll mill. It’s a Torrey Hills T50 (with cleaning tool), orginally purchased for $5700. Compact and power
Great deal (about 80% off of cost) on a huge lot (20+ kilos) of pigments! In a mix of glass jars, plastic jars, and bulk bags. Pick up in Berkeley, CA before the studio closes on Wednesday. Full list of inventory available at limncolors.com/sale.
I will be closing Limn Colors next week. Info at limncolors.com/sale. FLAX art & design has all of the remaining inventory of Limn Colors paint! You can get our watercolors on their website flaxart.com or at the stores in San Francisco and Oakla
Fantasizing about a crackling bonfire on a cool fall night. 🔥🍂 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🎨 Limn Colors ultramarine blue, pyrrole orange, metallic gold, iso yellow, benzimida yellow, titanium white, magnetite, burnt umber 📜 @Arches.Art 140 lb cold press block
Sometimes paintmaking looks pretty gruesome. Like the murder scene clean up after making synthetic reds. Here, quinacridone rose in the three roll mill looks like a horror film scene. 😳 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #LimnColors #HandmadeWatercolor #Gutsy #LosEspookys #
Our earth pigments in the red family: caput mortuum, hematite, burnt sienna, and mauve earth. ❤️🧱🧶🦊🍫🐻🏈🎻🏮🍁❤️ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #LimnColors #HandmadeWatercolor #EarthPigments #NaturalPigments #WatercolorPaint #Watercolors #CaputMortuum #Hematite #Burn
For those of you with a passion for purple or who need a bright violet for botanical illustration. Ultramarine violet is more saturated than our moody dioxazine and flocculates like its sister ultramarine blue. Crocuses by Jessica of Limn Colors.
Restocks delivered to @flaxart Fort Mason. Have you been following their posts and stories for world watercolor month? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #LimnColors #HandmadeWatercolor #Paintmaker #Swatch #WorldWatercolorMonth #Watercolors #WatercolorPaint #Paintmaker #SanF
More cobalt aqua and malachite watercolor pans in the works, looking like sea glass as they dry. Both of these colors are currently available in the shop. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #LimnColors #HandmadeWatercolors #Paintmaker #HandMulledPaint #CobaltAqua #Malachite
Potter’s pink, one of our new colors, steals hearts with its gorgeous granulation and interesting color. A good one for those of your who like pigments that separate in mixes. #LimnColors #PottersPink #HandmadeWatercolor #WatercolorPainting #W
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Have you subscribed to our email newsletter? I’ll give you 10 reasons to join right now... 5 new earth colors and 5 new brights are loaded into the shop and ready for launch! This will be our biggest shop update yet and we can’t