BEAM PAINTS - Tisgeh'dah Children's Palette

BEAM PAINTS - paint - Tisgeh'dah Children's Palette

Beam is so thrilled to introduce "Tisgeh'dah" lets colour it in Ojibwe! These 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 children's paint. They are not toxic or hazardous and meet LHAMA and ASTM D4236 standards for artist materials. Through this process they have earned the right to bear this seal.

They are also made with Beam's same dedication to lightfastness and quality and are identical to our other paints for fine artists. Beam believes artists of all ages even those in kindergarten deserve the joys that handmade paints can bring. And knowing that their safety has been considered to the highest degree. 

Also it is a small amount but Beam paint is only pigment and binder which creates a very concentrated colour which lasts a long time. 

Summer sun red, cherry magenta, pumpkin, fall poplar, spring green, blue sky, great ocean, blueberry mountain. Happy painting!  

About

Beam Paints is the result of a multi-generational love of pigment, paint, colour, and innovation. Anong Beam was raised by 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 Anong’s early educations in Indigenous pigment and expands it to encompass all paint traditions. A 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. Beam watercolours are shaped into paint stones, their version of a half-pan, before being wrapped in beeswaxed canvas. Beam pans are packaged in slices of cedar and birch offcuts from an Indigenous sustainable lumber operation.

Thank you for supporting indigenous family business! The paints you have selected are made with local manitoulin honey, wildcrafted tree sap, hand-gathered, washed and sifted manitoulin stone, and the finest lightfast pigments. We strive to be a plastic free company and we make all our packaging either hand-cut and sanded reclaimed white cedar and birch, or, wrappers, hand printed in the shop with plant based inks, and waxed with local beeswax. 

To see our process and mini tutorials visit - instagram@beampaints and beampaints. com