Matthew Palmer

"These brushes make painting details easy, just like using a pen."

Designed and used by Matthew himself, these Branch & Detail Brushes will give you natural, organic lines and help you create realistic branches with ease.

The unique shape of these fully synthetic brushes means the belly has a large colour carrying capacity, so you don't need to keep stopping to reload your brush, whilst the tip enables you to create fine detail and intricate lines.

Also perfect for very fine detail such as rigging, lightning and spider webs, they're a fantastic and highly useful tool for all watercolour artists.

This set of 2 includes both a Large and Small.. Learn More

Matthew Palmers' stunning Artists' Watercolours are the perfect choice for painting the splendid beauty and colour of the changing seasons. Specially blended by Matthew, these sensational colours are the perfect addition to any artist's palette. Learn More

Perfect for graduated transitions from one colour to another, this set of 2 Blending Blades gives you the tools to create smooth, flowing watercolour washes and colour gradients.

Designed by Matthew in response to the colour blending struggles of his students, these carefully shaped 'blades' provide the answer - and other additional benefits as well!

The unique, angular design also allows the artist to paint using two colours at once, simply load up each side with different colours and experiment! The two colour technique is great for quick and easy flowers and rainbow effects.

"Smoothly blend the paint away with the angled shape of the synthetic hairs. The sharp point lets you paint straight lines, and the crisp edges allow you to lift out colour creating amazing effects!"
Matthew Palmer, SAA Professional Artist

Set of two brushes includes one large and one small. Learn More

Join popular, professional artist, Matthew Palmer, as he shares his simple tips for getting to grips with the basics of painting in watercolour.

This set is perfect for beginner wanting to discover how to paint sensational landscapes in watercolour or those artists looking to brush up on their existing skills.

Discover the secrets behind drawing understanding perspective, light & shade, colour and painting realistic skies, trees, water & figures.

Matthews beautiful book is bursting with 128 pages of easy to follow advice and tricks - plus six, simple step-by-step exercises and six large scale projects- with 12 pull out tracings supplied, to help beginners discover how to paint 12 picturesque landscapes.

Search Press - 128 Pages - Colour Throughout. Learn More

From flowers to animals, waterfalls to grasses and beyond, these FANtastics are the ultimate addition to your brush collection. Designed and developed by much-loved watercolour artist, Matthew Palmer, they are ideal for all kinds of effects.

The random nature of the fanned hair, a mix of Racoon, Badger and natural bristle, creates great texture and the unique spiky edge changes each time you reload with paint - wonderful for capturing natural, organic marks.

These brushes are a must for all artists, and will work with a range of mediums from watercolour to acrylic.

Contains small, medium & large FANtastic Brushes

Size :Large
Shape: Fan
Width of Hair: 40 mm
Visible Hair length: 15 mm
Total length of brush: 192 mm

Size: Medium
Shape: Fan
Width of Hair: 30 mm
Visible Hair length: 12 mm
Total length of brush:190 mm

Size: Small
Shape: Fan
Width of Hair: 20 mm
Visible Hair length: 10 mm
Total length of brush: 184 mm Learn More

'Lifting Out' is a technique known and used by many watercolour artists for adding highlights to a painting, but it can be hard to find a brush that is up to the job, especially for delicate effects.

Made from strong synthetic hairs, these brushes created by Matthew Palmer and the SAA, are perfect for all types of lifting out, enabling you to create stunning, subtle and sparkling highlights.

"For many years I have painted highlights by lifting them out, first using this technique for lifting subtle highlights out of a flower petal. This technique has been with me for many years and using the right brush is crucial. it's hard to find a good one, so I have designed the perfect brush for the job. This is an essential tool for all watercolour artists."
Matthew Palmer


Pack includes two lift out brushes - 3mm and 6mm. Learn More

Join popular, professional artist, Matthew Palmer, as he shares his simple tips for getting to grips with the basics of painting in watercolour.

This DVD takes you on a delightful journey to the breathtaking Cumbrian countryside for even more practical hints & demonstrations for capturing the sensational scenic views of Derwent Water.

Learn how to create a stunning landscape complete with distant mountains, skies, silhouetted trees - or how to make a simple shoreline sketch - before returning to the studio to paint people taking an early evening stroll at the waters edge and a picture perfect summer landscape featuring a boat sailing gently past a wonderful windmill.

Follow in Matthew's footsteps to discover simple tips & techniques to build skills and increase your confidence for completing your own wonderful watercolour works of art.

DVD: 110 mins

Please note that while this is a Region 0 DVD, it is PAL formatted and therefore unlikely to play in North America, Japan, South Korea and some of the Pacific Islands.

However, all DVDs will play on personal computers and laptops. Learn More

Take your watercolour mixing to the next level with Matthew Palmer's Easy-Clean Watercolour Palette! This hard-wearing, easy to clean, plastic palette and lid features 24 wells of different sizes.

This hard-wearing plastic palette has been developed and designed by popular professional artist Matthew Palmer. The 'Easy-Clean' design means that no matter how messy things get during your painting session, you'll be able to clean the palette in no time at all. Matthew's durable watercolour palette and lid features 24 wells of differing sizes, so it's perfect for mixing a wide variety of colours, tones and pigments.

Pick up your Easy Clean palette today and start capturing a world of colour the Matthew Palmer way!

A pack of 2 replacement moist cellulose sponge , born for use with Matthew Palmer's Easy-Clean Watercolour Palette are available, just search for code WSRP.

Dimensions: 35.2 x 21.5 x 2.1cm Learn More

Learn to capture trees and textures the Matthew Palmer way with this superb set of specially developed brushes.

Made from badger hair with a touch of blue squirrel these are ideal for using with watercolour, these brushes are also great when used with acrylic, gouache or oils. The set includes three different sizes - small, medium and large - each made from badger hair with a touch of blue squirrel, the ideal material for capturing the rough textures of trees and foliage.

The uniquely shaped head of each brush offers a level of control and detail which make this set of brushes an absolute must-have for anyone looking to emulate Matthew's unmistakeable watercolour style, or simply enhance their tree and texture painting! Learn More

Skintone colours make the perfect addition to your collection!

Matthew has worked hard to bring you the perfect skintone colours for your collection. This dark skintone shade, will work brilliantly to blend with the light skintone, or alone to create life like skintones.

Specially blended by Matthew and exclusively created by the SAA, these sensational colours are the perfect addition to any artist's palette. Learn More

"These brushes make painting details easy, just like using a pen."

Designed and used by Matthew himself, this Branch & Detail Brush will give you natural, organic lines and help you create realistic branches with ease.

The unique shape of this fully synthetic brush means the belly has a large colour carrying capacity, so you don't need to keep stopping to reload your brush, whilst the tip enables you to create fine detail and intricate lines. Learn More