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Peerless Watercolors are dry watercolor sheets you activate with water. No palette required. No setup.

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✔ Lightweight for travel

✔ Paint directly from compact palettes

✔ Instant color activation

✔ Ideal for sketchbooks and painting on location

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Peerless Explorer Bundle!

Anna Rappaport
Peerless Explorer Bundle!
Awesome little book of colors.

This is my first purchase from peerless and I am hooked. The colors are beautiful. The idea is magnificent. A way to jump into watercolor.

Ambyr Lemke
The Sidekick
CMYK Liquid Watercolors

After waiting soooo patiently , I received my Liquid Watercolors today and am so excited and happy I came across PW🩷!!!! They are gorgeous and so beautiful in their glass droplet vials . The colors look vibrant and bright and I am going to
Just enjoy mixing them up and see what I can come up with . I’ll get back with you all soon , thank you Peerless for showing me such beautiful inks and new methods and new watercolors 😊😀!!!!

Irene Macias
CMYK Primary Color Set (Liquid)
Love these paints

These paints are always so vibrant and luxurious. Every color is lovely and refreshing. You can’t go wrong with the Peerless palette of beautiful colors! Thank you for all you do for the art community!

Sheila M Grube
Ivory Black
These watercolors are so vibrant!

These watercolors are so vibrant, they're more like ink! They blend beautifully and create an amazing palette of colors. Five stars! :)

Mel Kolstad
Nicholson's Peerless Watercolors
Awesome

Brilliant and very vibrant! Love this mix!

Suzi Costa
Artist Edition: Joanne Palette by Joanne Sharpe
Amazing Product

The best portable watercolors set I have ever used. The ease of use and the quality of color is mind blowing.

James Doles
Original 1885 Complete Edition (Wholesale)
Love the vibrant colors

Have used peerless in the past and was delighted with the portability of the mini booklets! As always, love the vibrancy of the colors!

R Clark
Mini Complete Edition

CMYK Primary Color Set (Liquid)

Tamalyn Hafen
CMYK Primary Color Set (Liquid)
Loved them

Lots of color. Well packed. Great to carry around. Will buy again

Jordi Waggoner
The Sidekick
Beginner Watercolor Artist

I am typically a digital artist but in recent years, I’ve been wanting to dive into physical art. This brand was recommended to me over 10 years ago!! I bought these watercolors 10 years ago and loved them, I ended up buying a few of the travel type sets so I can do watercolor anywhere!! Love the ease and vibrancy of colors. I think I will be trying the ink CMYK set soon, love the idea of mixing my own colors!!

Andrea R
The Artist's Palette
In love with a liquid watercolor

All of the paints are amazing from fearless, but my very favorite by far are the liquid water colors that have tried many other brands when peerless was out of stock and none of them hold a candle to the beauty of the peerless liquid watercolors

sara colson
CMYK Primary Color Set (Liquid)
So much fun!

Love the pigmentation and the ability to mix so many colors with just these four liquid watercolors. I love peerless!!

Signa A Meyers
CMYK Primary Color Set (Liquid)
Mixing Magic

I love the liquid watercolors in the CMYK Primary Color Set because they mix so beautifully well! I have made any color I may need with this set and I only use a few drops to make it happen!

Anthony Latess
CMYK Primary Color Set (Liquid)
My favorite watercolors!!!

I've been using Peerless watercolors for years! They're my favorite b/c they're bright, transparent, and so easy to use. Love Peerless!

Cathy Lawson
Warm Sepia
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How to Use Peerless Watercolors

1. Wet Your Brush

2. Touch the DrySheet

3. Paint instantly, anywhere!

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Nicholson’s Peerless Transparent Watercolors are handmade, highly concentrated watercolor paints designed for artists who value vibrant color, portability, and ease of use. Unlike traditional tubes or pans, our unique dry sheet watercolors activate instantly with water, making them ideal for urban sketching, travel painting, studio work, and beginners exploring watercolor for the first time. Trusted by artists around the world since 1885, Peerless Watercolors offers rich color, flexible mixing, and a lightweight format that fits effortlessly into your creative routine -
wherever you paint!