We fell in love with Viviva Colors - a super portable option for watercolor artists. You can get yours via crowdfunding (they launch today -HERE IS A LINK TO THEIR INDIEGOGO CAMPAIGN - ). We have for you a press release where the founders talk about their project:
What's Viviva Colorsheets?
Viviva Colorsheets is watercolors reinvented. It's the perfect set of watercolors to paint on the go anytime anywhere. The best time to actually paint is in the moment, when you're witnessing that beautiful sunrise or in that picturesque café by a bustling street. But our current methods are so inconvenient and messy that they just don’t let you enjoy the simple pleasure of capturing a beautiful moment with your own hands and strokes. Who's going to carry the tubes and palettes or even the halfpans with all their mess. Viviva Colorsheets takes all of that away. With a waterbrush, it's as simple as pick and paint. It's almost magical. The beauty about them is that they are so easy to carry and let you paint with ease, anywhere. You can always have them in your purse and just start painting whenever you feel like.
We made the Viviva Colorsheets for the artist, the hobbyist, the travellers, the young and the old. All of us has an inner child who loved to paint. With Viviva Colorsheets we want you to relive that childhood.
How Viviva Colorsheets came to be... Our Story
Hello, I'm Aditya, the founder of Viviva Colors. I am a 3rd year medschool student in India, the land of colors! I have always been fond of water coloring, but after joining medschool I found that I hardly ever painted. It was so inconvenient to carry all the equipment - the pans, tubes, palettes... ughhh! I knew there had to be a better way to do it and while studying one of the diagnostic techniq ues that involves picking a substrate off a paper, I had a brainwave: What if I tried to make a sheet with water colors on them. The idea stuck and I started looking for a way to do it. It took me a year but I finally found an expert on dyes and worked with him to develop the technology. I got in my brother Rohan to help me with setting up the supplychain and branding over the last few months and now the only thing left is to buy the raw materials in large enough quantity to bring the pricepoint down (I'd h ave to sell my kidney if I continue making them in very small volumes).
My grandmother's initials are Vilasani Vijaykumar Vadgaonkar and Vivat in latin means "to live" which is how I adopted the name to honor my grandmother and also to mean lively or to live. It is what I hope the colors will do for you: Help you live your passion for art!
Basic Details
A set has 16 Colors curated for outdoor and urban sketching
It's a set of transparent watercolors in form of sheets (like post it's with colors on them)
But just cause they are travel friendly doesn't mean they aren't good. They are in fact highly
intense and vibrant colors that allow for a very rich and vivid paintings
They work best with a water brush
They are roughly the size of a credit card
What do users say about them?
People LOVE them! We have shipped samples to over 300 people and have received an overwhelmingly positive response to them.
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Our experience with them has been super positive: The colours are saturated and vibrant and the pigments are super strong - you just barely touch the sheet with a wet brush and cna paint. The colors work well both for people who love soft pastel-ish hues and for people who prefer bolder color. If you want to try these you will not be disappointed.