Kuretake Gansai Tambi Watercolour Sets

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Kuretake Gansai Tambi Watercolour Sets

Name: Kuretake Gansai Tambi Watercolour Sets
Brand: Kuretake
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Kuretake Gansai Tambi are Japanese watercolours: rich, lightfast pigment in large, removable pans that dissolve quickly and cover more opaquely than Western watercolours — so they show up even on dark paper. Choose the classic 12-colour set as your everyday palette, then add special effects: shimmering Starry Colours, or the Granulating sets whose colours separate on the page.

Japanese watercolour (gansai) — water-based pigment

More opaque than Western watercolour; works on dark paper

No — reactivates with water

Pans lift out of the palette · Colour chart inside the lid · Granulating sets include an empty mixing pan

Nara, Japan — Kuretake, est. 1902

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Exclusions:

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Japanese watercolour

Gansai is the Japanese form of watercolour. It lifts with a wet brush like any watercolour, but the colours are more opaque than Western transparent watercolour, so they cover well and show up on dark or coloured paper. Kuretake has made ink in Nara since 1902; Gansai Tambi is its watercolour range, used for etegami (illustrated postcards), sumi-e, sketching, calligraphy and illustration.

Choosing your set

12 Colour Set — the classic starting palette: white, black, cadmium scarlet, red, rose madder deep, lemon yellow, yellow ochre, burnt sienna, sap green, viridian, ultramarine and indigo.

Starry Colours — six mica metallics: blue gold, red gold, yellow gold, champagne gold, light gold and white gold, brilliant on black paper.

Granulating Colours — Aurora Red, Aurora Pink, Aurora Orange, Aurora Blue and Aurora Violet, each blended from several pigments that separate in a wet wash into a two-tone, mottled effect; an empty pan is included for mixing.

Granulating Colours 3 — the third granulating set, inspired by moonlight; its colours also separate in water, and finished work glows under black light

Honest Note:

Gansai is not a transparent watercolour in the Western sense — the colours sit more on the surface and lift more readily when you glaze over them. That is a strength for illustration and dark paper, but if you build many transparent glazes, a Western watercolour may suit better. Granulating sets need plenty of water to separate — used thickly they behave like ordinary colour, and the effect varies with your paper. Starry and Granulating are effect sets: they work best alongside the 12 Colour Set, not instead of it.

Who is it For?

• Illustrators and sketchers who want bright, opaque watercolour that shows up on any paper
• Calligraphers and letterers painting on dark card (Starry Colors)
• Painters who love wet-in-wet effects and textured backgrounds (Granulating)
• Beginners who want an easy, forgiving watercolour

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