Watercolors Perfect for ACEO Artists!

Our lightweight, highly concentrated watercolor sheets take up very little space while giving you access to a huge range of vibrant, transparent color. Whether you're creating a one-of-a-kind original or painting a series of collectible cards, Peerless makes it easy to keep your entire color collection close at hand.

What are ACEOs?

Short for "Art Cards, Editions and Originals", ACEOs are a miniature piece of art that measures exactly 2.5 by 3.5 inches. Artists make, sell, and collect these cards. Thousands of different art materials, styles, and themes make ACEOs incredibly facinating - you're sure to find one you love!

Why Peerless for ACEO painting?

  • Lightweight

    Our DrySheets are approximately 2.5" × 6" and contain concentrated watercolor pigment, allowing you to keep a wide selection of colors without filling your workspace with bulky pans and tubes.

  • Portable

    Because Peerless takes up so little space, your ACEO supplies can travel with you. Paint at your desk, in your studio, at an art show, while traveling, or wherever inspiration strikes.

  • Vibrant + Transparent

    Peerless Watercolors are transparent, allowing light to pass through the paint and giving small paintings a luminous quality. Layer washes, mix colors, or use a single color at varying strengths.

  • Perfect for Small-Scale Painting

    ACEOs demand precision. Peerless lets you activate just the amount of color you need, making it easy to work from delicate washes to highly concentrated details.

  • Customizable

    Cut your DrySheets into smaller pieces and arrange your favorite colors together. Create a palette for a particular series, subject, collection, or individual ACEO.

A hand holds a Urban Sketcher Starter Palette - a  Peerless Watercolors custom palette including 8 handpicked colors, an instructions card and a swatch card.

Building a Series?

Peerless can be especially useful when you're creating multiple ACEOs around a theme.

Create one custom palette with the colors you'll use throughout your collection, then keep it with your cards as you work.

✨ Start Here ✨

Here are some of our favorite lightweight setups for getting started.

How to Use Peerless Watercolors

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Wet Your Brush

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Touch the DrySheet

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Paint instantly, anywhere!

Concentrated DrySheets

The front side has the color name and an example wash (hand-painted!) and the back side has concentrated watercolor.

Activate with Water & Paint

Waterbrushes make painting easy on the go!

Make it Your Own!

Use one of our ready to go Peerless palettes or cut DrySheets and customize your own...there are endless possibilities! Our YouTube channel features many tips and tricks.

Portable Vibrant Watercolor paint for travel, journal, artists, urban sketching

Paint with Us!

We’re actively building the future of Peerless around portable creativity and urban sketching. We’d love to hear your ideas for dream palettes, travel tools, and sketching setups.

The difference between Peerless Watercolors and other large art supply brands is that we are a small team( 👋 ), we are invested in developing our product to help YOU, and we are out there urban sketching too! Chances are, if you share an idea with us...it's going on the drawing board when we develop products. You are a part of something very special!

Every DM, every email, every package is touched by someone on our team. Our paints are handmade...with lots of love!

Your paintings may be miniature. Your color palette doesn't have to be.