TONIC WATERCOLOR HALF PANS Our original watercolors are now available in traditional half pans! This is the classic little 'chiclet' shape that you'll find in most modern watercolor sets. Ours are taller than most, and they're generally overfilled. We actually fill each one of these by hand, if you can believe it, so there are minor differences between each pan. Tonic half pans fit into any standard watercolor tin. Made right here in St. Louis, MO. ABOUT TONIC WATERCOLOR Tonic Watercolor is made right here in our St. Louis HQ, with a unique formula that we developed over two years of experimentation and research. We designed Tonic for maximum pigmentation, and you'll notice that a pan of Tonic is more concentrated than many other artist-grade watercolors. With just a few drops of water, you can make bold, saturated marks on wet or dry paper. To make typical, translucent watercolor washes, you'll need to add more water than you might expect. Most Tonic colors start out semi-opaque because of their high pigment load, but they open up with water, becoming light and subtle as they're diluted. At any concentration, Tonic is free-flowing. It's easy to load onto a wet brush, easy to lift from its pan or from paper, and easy to move the brush across watercolor paper. Some brands of watercolor are too sticky or slow-moving to allow painting on dry paper, but with Tonic, you don't need to pre-wet the page for most techniques. OUR EXTRA-LARGE PORCELAIN PAN This is our signature package for Tonic Watercolor — a large, hand-poured porcelain pan containing 20 grams of solid watercolor. That's approximately seven times the net weight of a typical half pan of watercolor paint! With its huge size and affordable price, Tonic is one of the absolute best-value products in fine art materials today. Plus, when you're done using a Tonic pan, you can easily wash out the porcelain dish for use as a palette — or, to refill with your favorite large tube of watercolor. Tonic Porcelain Pans measure 45 mm (1.8") in diameter and 19 mm (0.75") in height. MADE WITH FINE ACACIA GUM One element of our recipe is highly traditional: we use specially sourced and carefully tested gum arabic as the binder for Tonic watercolors. Gum arabic, which is the plant-based medium of virtually all watercolors, varies wildly in quality and consistency. As we learned over dozens of materials tests, some grades and species of gum arabic are totally unsuitable for watercolor.