Pendant mes vacances cet été au Québec, le fleuve Saint Laurent s’est montré grandiose et envoûtant et la peinture s’est invitée tout au long de mon chemin : un grand nombre de fresques murales ornaient les murs d’une petite ville sur la rive sud du fleuve, une fresque immense à Québec, une rencontre sympathique avec l’artiste Kael Mercader vivant à Montréal, il exposait à Baie Saint Paul, il adore utiliser la peinture Flashe, une autre surprise se trouvait au musée de la Côte Nord à Sept Iles, une très vieille boite d’aquarelle Winsor & Newton ayant appartenu à Paul Provencher était exposée en vitrine.

During my summer vacation in Quebec, the St. Lawrence River was magnificent and captivating, and painting was everywhere I went: numerous murals adorned the walls of a small town on the south shore of the river, there was a huge mural in Quebec City, a pleasant encounter with Montreal-based artist Kael Mercader, who was exhibiting in Baie Saint Paul and loves to use Flashe paint, and another surprise at the Musée de la Côte Nord in Sept-Îles, where a very old Winsor & Newton watercolor box that belonged to Paul Provencher was on display in a showcase.

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I bought this postcard in Grasmere. Thought they were beautiful swatches and interesting names for colours

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Sharing a recent collaboration Winsor & Newton did with illustrator Aysha Tengiz, to reimagine educational notebooks dating back to the 1800s from our archive. Aysha reimagined guides from ‘The Artistic Anatomy of the Dog and Deer’, transforming them into colourful characters in her signature style. The result is a brilliant blend of past and present. The collaboration was also picked up by It’s Nice That and shared on their blog. Check out the W&N website and social channels for other collaborations in the series! https://uk.winsornewton.com/blogs/articles/winsor-newton-archive-with-aysha-tengiz

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Hello Colart,

A little finding from the other day that might go a long way into seeing where are the colours, from us and also everyone else.

https://artistpigments.org/

There you can find about every pigment used in every range from every company they could record the data from. 

And in a second step, once you have the Colour Index (CI) of the pigment, another useful resource is: 

https://www.artiscreation.com/

Which recorded a comprehensive understanding of every pigment known and used in art at some point. 

Good curiosity everyone,

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Spotted the UNIQLO × POP MART drop—proof that pro meets play is the new culture code. How to step straight into this lane? Imagine  Winsor & Newton × LABUBU（not limited to this）: heritage pigments with a toy‑box grin. Not gimmick, but gateway to Gen Z studios and shelves. If want a door to  fashion 潮 , this feels like the key—fun, on‑brand, and hard to scroll past：）

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