TONIC CORE MIXING SET This essential set of Tonic Watercolors includes extra-large porcelain pans of specially selected mixing colors. We've included six different primary colors, two from each color family, as evenly spaced on the color wheel as possible. This "split-primary" arrangement includes warm and cool colors from each primary family (red, yellow, and blue.) It's a modern mixing system that allows for much more intense color than traditional three-primary mixing.
The colors included are Quinacridone Magenta (cool red), Federal Red (warm red), Signal Yellow (warm yellow), Permanent Yellow (cool yellow), Phthalo Cyan (cool blue), and Ultramarine (warm blue.) Each Porcelain Pan contains 20 grams of dry paint — that's seven times as much as a standard half pan of watercolor. We've also included an empty Porcelain Pan. Use it as a mini palette for mixing, or fill it with water or Tonic Watercolor Medium.
INTENSE COLOR, EFFORTLESS FLOW Tonic Watercolor is made right here in our St. Louis HQ, with a unique formula that we developed over two years of experimentation and research. We designed Tonic for maximum pigmentation, and you'll notice that a pan of Tonic is more concentrated than many other artist-grade watercolors. With just a few drops of water, you can make bold, saturated marks on wet or dry paper. To make typical, translucent watercolor washes, you'll need to add more water than you might expect. Most Tonic colors start out semi-opaque because of their high pigment load, but they open up with water, becoming light and subtle as they're diluted. At any concentration, Tonic is free-flowing. It's easy to load onto a wet brush, easy to lift from its pan or from paper, and easy to move the brush across watercolor paper. Some brands of watercolor are too sticky or slow-moving to allow painting on dry paper, but with Tonic, you don't need to pre-wet the page for most techniques.
OUR EXTRA-LARGE PORCELAIN PAN This is our signature package for Tonic Watercolor — a large, hand-poured porcelain pan containing 20 grams of solid watercolor. That's approximately seven times the net weight of a typical half pan of watercolor paint! With its huge size and affordable price, Tonic is one of the absolute best-value products in fine art materials today. Plus, when you're done using a Tonic pan, you can easily wash out the porcelain dish for use as a palette — or, to refill with your favorite large tube of watercolor. Tonic Porcelain Pans measure 45 mm
