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 for over a century, Peerless Watercolors offer rich color, flexible mixing, and a lightweight format that fits effortlessly into your creative routine - wherever you paint.
Portable + Vibrant!
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How to Use Peerless Watercolors
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Step 1: Pick your Colors
Either pick them randomly (like I do) or pick a few that fit your color scheme.
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Step 2: Wet Your Brush
Find your favorite brush, whisper a few sweet nothings to it, then dip it in some clean water.
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Step 3: Touch Brush To Paint Side Of DryColor Sheet
One side of our paint has a wash to show you what the color could look like (this side also has the name stamped on it) and the other side is our concentrated paint - you want that side.
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Step 4: Start Painting!
You are ready to start painting. The wet brush both activates and lifts the concentrated paint from the back of our DryColor sheet.
NEW! Create a Custom Portable Palette
Create your own custom portable watercolor palette!
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Choose 8 colors, and we will assemble your custom palette at Peerless Color Labs. It will arrive ready to go!
The travel palette opens up to show you your 8 chosen colors. On the bottom of the palette, there is a plastic pocket (the outside of which doubles as a mixing space!). We include a blank swatch card as well as instructions for using Peerless Paints.
Let customers speak for us
from 608 reviewsI have been painting with peerless paints for many years and find them to be very strong and vivid colors and lasting for many years. I especially use a lot of yellow and I really like the daffodil yellow. They are very handy to take out near a lake or a metal and use them in the wilderness as they are light and compact. I highly recommend all the paint they produce.
I’ve been using Peer;ess Watercolors for years and love how easy they are to take when you travel. The Joanne Sharpe edition is a fun, vibrant mix of rich colors. It’s a great set to keep in your artist toolbox.
These clips are a nice size to use when I'm painting in my watercolor journal. They are a good quality clip that I will use often.
I’ve been a Peerless Watercolor customer for many years - probably 20 years. I’ve made several portable palettes that allowed me to take the paints on the road, carefully cutting out pieces of each color from the individual sheets, adhering them and labeling onto cardstock. Making those kinds of palettes could take me a few hours to create, but was well worth it to create a travel watercolor kit. That’s how much I’ve enjoyed using the paints over the years! I don’t have to do this anymore with the Sidekick! Very happy with this product!
I loved using the sidekick! The paints are beautiful and vibrant and pigmented. And the sidekick is an interesting way to package them. It’s definitely a great way to get a sense of the product.
I love how they make taking my peerless watercolors with me any where. So convenient
I started using Peerless Watercolors a few years ago, and I am always blown away by the vibrancy of the pigment! The Sidekick is no different. Although my first purchase was years ago and I have used them with great care in my watercolouring, the large sheets are still largely intact, so I knew that even if the sheets were smaller, I wouldn't have a problem because it takes me a while to use the paint. That really lead me to try the sidekick, because there were so many colours and it was only slightly more expensive than a set that would only include 18 colours. I am happy with my purchase, and would recomend this portable colour compendium to watercolour artists who love the charm of having so much in something so small.
Every color is thoughtfully picked to be bold and bright for painting. This palette will help you break into a new world of more expressive and vibrant hues to bring your artwork to life!
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My daughter who mostly works in acrylics and pencil has been wanting to try watercolor. I purchased the Explorer bundle for her as a Christmas gift & she loves it!!! I have several Peerless set and individual sheets and love them as well. They’re especially wonderful for introducing children to watercolor painting-they love to see the actual color once they touch the loaded brush to paper:)
Love the clarity of the pigments. The light seems to saturate the images on paper and bounce back to delight your eye twice .
These little tins are perfect for my watercolor dry sheets! The tin keeps the paint sheets so tidy and damage free! And the bonus is I can use the lid as a mixing palette in a pinch! Love these so much!
I ordered this blotting towel along with one of the storage tins for the dry sheet watercolors. Both are great quality items! The blotting towel is nice and colorful as well as absorbent. I keep it near my cups of water when I'm working in watercolors. Very satisfied with my purchase. I would buy one again.
This tin is the perfect size to store my dry sheet watercolors. It is a nice quality tin that opens and closes effortlessly. I like the slim compact size of it. This tin would be nice for storing little bits and scraps of paper, etc. I might order a second one for storing scraps of watercolor paper for swatching paints or for storing my ATC papers. The cover is nice and smooth so I might add a sticker decal to decorate it.
Easy to use, lots of color and always available. I use these all the time and am always pleased with the result
"New favorite watercolors! These are so awesome, y'all. Worth every penny! Easy to use and they're so vibrant! They mix well, too. Will definitely be buying more!"
- Melissa, Speaking Of The Sidekick
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Metal Tin for Peerless Individual DrySheet Watercolors
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A Little Bit of Christmas - Mini Watercoloring Book
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The Artist's Palette
Designed with the help of hundreds of our customers - The Artist's Palette marks the next generation of Peerless Watercolors.
The 20 colors in this versatile palette can be used any time and anywhere inspiration might strike.
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