Beam Watercolor Paints Sets

About Beam Paints:

"Beam Paints draws on my early educations in Indigenous pigment and expands it to encompass all paint traditions. A focus on high quality pigment content creates sublime artist materials, with plastic free packaging. Lightfast pigments, tree sap, gum arabic, and Manitoulin honey, blend together to create a handmade saturated colour that is a joy to paint with. From thick stripes to fine washes and details, quality is evident in every stroke. Our watercolours are shaped into paintstones, our version of a half-pan, before being wrapped in beeswaxed canvas. Our pans are packaged in slices of cedar and birch offcuts from an Indigenous sustainable lumber operation."

All paints are handmade in small batches with local Manitoulin honey, wildcrafted tree sap, hand gathered, washed and sifted Manitoulin stone and the finest lightfast pigments. Based in M'Chigeeng, Ontario.

Spectrum 11 Set: 11 colours including Strawberry, Magenta, Peach, Pumpkin, Fall Poplar Yellow, Spring Green, Robin’s Egg Blue, Great Ocean, Almost Night, Blueberry Mountain or Lavender and Gold.

Inaatig Maple Sets: This palette comes from the heart of our family's Maple Sugar Bush, colours inspired by the magical tree in spring with its chartreuse tree flowers, the silver grey and deep black of its trunk, the red maple colour and ochre colours of its leaves in the fall. And violet in the punky bark used by elders to dye porcupine quills for basket making.  

Great Lakes 5 Set: 5 deep and bright blues to celebrate the clean and clear water of the 5 great lakes! Deep and Penetrating Salish Sea, light and dreamy Robins Egg Blue, clean and clear Great Ocean, chill Ice Blue, and the always azure Sky Blue round out this summer set!

Autumn 4 Set: Harvest Wheat, Mars Violet, Bread, and Morning Peach, give us those warm cozy fall feelings, early autumn and warm fall tones 7/8 inch pans in a pine refillable block finished with beeswax. 

Georgian Bay Pine 11: Great Ocean, Prussian Blue, Sky Blue, Pine, Milkweed, Fall Poplar Yellow, Wild Rose, Beach Rose, Turtle Belly, Grey Ultra, Graphite Our favourite rainbow of colours in a larger size and reimagines by www.alexandramclaughlin.com 5/8 inch pans in a convenient pine palette handmade for travelling and having the rainbow in one hand!

Northern Lights: Our first collection of ethical mica colours!  Bring a spark to your palette these 100 percent pigment and binder watercolours sourced from Georgia USA.  Mica Gold, Beach Sand, Shell, Glacial Rivers, Wet Grizzly, and Winter Night.

Travel Cards: If you’ve been looking to try Beam Paints this is for you! These dot cards have samples of our favourite colours and sets!

Gift Sets: Some of our favourite palettes with one of our brushes and samples of St Armand handmade paper, wrapped in our signature waxed cloth.

Shell Gift Sets: Some of our favourite colours in an abalone shell, with a #4 travel brush and a waxed cloth wrapper! These shells can be used as a palette and carrier. They symbolize a great star that appeared in the sky to guide the Anishinaabe people in their great migrations, prior to European contact. The shell is commonly used to hold a ‘smudge’.  A bit of white sage and other plants burned in the shell and their smoke would dispel negative energy, and carry prayers to the creator. Comes wrapped up in a paper tape label, with a paper inside about us ready to go for gifting!

Gifting Sets: 4 colors wrapped in a beeswaxed cloth.

Sugar Maple Gift Sets: "Paired with three beautiful colours, samples of st Armand handmade paper and a #4 travel brush. The palettes carefully gathered from our family’s sugar bush, these small pieces of wood come from the magical Inaatig in our Ojibwe language or Acer saccharum in Latin, finally Sugar Maple in English."

Comfort Colors: "For me these are the colours of comfort and nostalgia. Aunties and grandmas house, the seats on the ferry to the mainland. Creamy butter colour Mixed with robins egg makes the most wonderful green! All anchored in memories of station wagons and summer vacations! Four beautiful paintstones wrapped in a waxed flannel wrapper."

Great Lakes Pine Palette: The beautiful shape of the Great Lakes carved into pine and filled with 5 colours evoking the power and majesty of this amazing fount holding 1/5 of the world fresh water. Colors include Great Ocean, Lake Huron Teal, Wintery Night, robins Egg and Glacial Rivers.

O'Keeffe Ghost Ranch -Inspired by the vivid desert dreams of Georgia O’Keeffe. Group of Seven luminary, Lawren Harris, was inspired by his visits to Ghost Ranch, O’Keeffe’s studio at Abiquiu, New Mexico. The O'Keeffe Palette, (Ghost Ranch) in sienna waxed canvas is Cherry Magenta, Morning Peach, Bread and Yellow Ochre (harvest wheat)