Description
“Months ago she had labored with the earth. Digging, planting, caring deeply… the image of what she wanted to create was vivid in her mind’s eye and the wildness and surging beauty of that vision sustained her when her knees hurt, when her arms ached, when the rain poured down. This patch of earth was both her canvas and her sanctuary. Now, light footed, she trod the stone path, spring swallows soaring above, the April morning air, cool and crisp on her face, her eyes beaming, her smile as wide as the love nature inspired within her. A sea of flowers and greenery lay before her, a tapestry she had woven, now alive and fragrant: daffodils, freesias, tulips, daisies, cyclamens, lavender, sweet basil, anemones of all hues and sizes, hydrangeas, rununculus, crocuses, lilies, irises and peonies… She crouched down to inhale the sweet scents and she was once more, whole again…
Eleni’s garden lives on in this palette, a homage to her love for that precious piece of earth that was part of her soul.”
Morning garden palette (15 half pans in a tin with a sliding lid):
- Permanent Yellow Light: Bright, transparent, happy as a daffodil in the Spring sun.
- Royal Yellow: Rich but delicate, glowing with the joy of the renewal Spring brings
- Mayan Red: Cool, crisp, fragile, just like petals from a peony
- Contemporary vermilion: The deepest poppy red…passionate and alive
- Masha’s green: A glowing verdant hue, like jeweled cotyledons
- Chrome Green: Earthy, mossy and rich
- Juniper: A cool bluish green, lavender leaves and agave
- Forget Me Not: A wide, blue, Spring sky, peaceful and uplifting
- Mineral Blue: A cool blue, perfect for mixing Spring shadows
- Waterlily: The color of water and the most delicate version of Verdigris
- Ultramarine Rose: The color of hyacinths, lilac bushes and cyclamen
- Lavender: A soft violet with a pink undertone… freesias, lavender and anemones
- Burnt Sienna: A warm earthy brown…rich fertile earth
- Partridge: A color shifting brown, cool bark, a beautiful contrast to the vibrant green leaves of Spring
- Butterfly: Beautiful cool ivory and the color alchemist of the palette as it can transform any color when mixed, into its pastel version.
The Night Garden (8 half pans in a tin with a hinged lid)
- Ruta’s Dream: An enigma of a color, shifting from dark green to darkest blue with sprinkles of rose colored petals
- Night Raspberry: A blue perfect for a moonlit night sky
- Cowslip: The gentle cool yellow of daffodils reflecting moonlight
- River: Greenish night shadows, cool, deep and enigmatic
- Rose Ashes: Such a complex pinkish violet, perfect for the moody hues of a night flower palette
- Cherry Blossom: The gauzy pink blossoms of blooming trees during the witching hour
- Mint: Pale moonlit green, fresh and dainty
- Fly: A unique color…muted pinkish stone full of interesting textures and color separation“.
Mixes nicely with other natural and human-made pigments. For best performance add a few drops of water some minutes before starting to work with it. It will reactivate the pigment and will be more fluid.
All our watercolors are handmade from pigment or pigment mixes, binders, and essential oils as conservative. The binder is made by ourselves from gum arabic, natural honey or glycerine, and water. Our watercolors have a flowery scent, with lemongrass as the top note and sandalwood as the base note
