Sugar Maple Watercolor Gift Sets

Each of these stunning gift sets comes with three colors of highly pigmented artist quality watercolor paint, watercolor paper and a no. 4 round travel paint brush, all wrapped in waxed canvas.

Each color is poured into a waxed canvas wrapped half pan sized "paint stone," which is drilled into a piece of sugar maple to create a refillable, interchangeable watercolor palette. If you use up a color, you can order a new individual paint stone from Beam Paints to replace it and keep using your palette!

The branches used to make these palettes are carefully gathered from Anong's family’s sugar maple, called Inaatig in their Ojibwe language. They have been caring for this same acreage of trees and harvesting their sap since before the treaties of their area were signed. Pruning dry branches is a part of caring for the trees, and these palettes are made from those offcuts.

Beam Paints is an Indigenous woman owned company based in M'Chigeeng First Nation on Manitoulin Island. Their paints are made from pigments, tree sap, gum arabic, and Manitoulin honey, blended together to create a handmade saturated color that is a joy to paint with. From thick stripes to fine washes and details, quality is evident in every stroke.