$52.50
“Tisgeh’dah” means “Lets colour it!” in Ojibwe.
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.
The colours have been third party tested by the toxicologists at Duke University and Cambridge Materials testing to meet and exceed the standards for safety for childrens paint. They are not toxic or hazardous and meet LHAMA and ASTM D4236 standards for artist materials. The children’s Palette is certified ACMI safe for children
Featured colours: summer sun red, cherry magenta, pumpkin, fall poplar, spring green, blue sky, great ocean, blueberry mountain
Paints are packaged in slices of cedar and birch offcuts from an Indigenous sustainable lumber operation.
About the artist:
Beam Paints is the result of a multi-generational love of pigment, paint, colour, and innovation, created by Anong Beam. Anong was raised by her artist parents, Carl Beam and Ann Beam, and was taught from a young age how to harvest hematite pigment in the LaCloche mountain range near their home in M’Chigeeng First Nation on Manitoulin Island. Beam Paints draws on her early educations in Indigenous pigment and expands it to encompass all paint traditions. Beam Paints 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.
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