Description
Every summer, Anne-Sophie took her watercolor box to a different village: Gordes one year, Èze the next, Riquewihr after that. She would find a shady step, open the little tin, wet her brush and paint the same thing every time, a single building, its shutters, its flower boxes, its crooked chimney. Her sketchbooks filled a whole shelf by the time she was seventy.
This porcelain paint box would have made her smile. A picturesque building is painted on its surface with fine detail, and tiny palette and brush accents complete the set as though the artist has just paused mid-sketch. It is a thoughtful gift for a watercolorist, an art teacher, an architecture lover or a museum devotee, and it looks wonderful on a studio shelf, a desk or a bookshelf full of art books. The building’s windows and rooftop are painted with such care that you can almost feel the warmth of a southern afternoon on the stone. Beside a jar of real brushes, it looks like part of the kit.
The details
- A miniature watercolor paint box design
- A picturesque building motif on the surface
- Tiny palette and brush details
- Sized to sit happily on a desk or studio shelf
- Colored by hand, as a painter would, on Limoges porcelain from France
Give it to someone just setting out on a painting holiday, along with a fresh sketchbook and a promise to see the results.
