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Rock and clay and swirling depths—CfM Hot Spring is a soul-soothing escape, right there in your palette! This earthy oasis of color is warmer than her cousin CfM Riverbed (and cooler than 2nd cousin CfM River Red ) with a subtle, blushy glow. CfM Ultra-Blends are custom colors with endless possibilities! Use them with just a bit of water for full, even saturation, or add more water (and a bit more!), let it all pool and dry undisturbed on your paper, and discover worlds upon magical worlds as the colors separate and settle out!

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When mixing a batch of CfM Riverbed — a rich mix of earth pigments inspired by Heidi Gustafson's Book of Earth —we went a little (a lot) heavy on the Blue Ridge Red Hematite . The upside: a new fave color, and cute punny name, in our lineup! CfM Ultra-Blends are custom colors with endless possibilities! Use them with just a bit of water for full, even saturation, or add more water (and a bit more!), let it all pool and dry undisturbed on your paper, and discover worlds upon magical worlds as the colors separate and settle out!

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Adorable and sleek, these perfect travel sets fit right in your pocket, so you can keep our best-selling Ultra-Blends close at hand wherever you roam! These custom colors contain endless possibilities: use them with just a bit of water for full, even saturation, or add more water (and a bit more!), let it all pool and dry undisturbed on your paper, and discover worlds upon magical worlds as the colors separate and settle out!

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An expanded version of our Ultra-Blends 8-color set ! This exciting collection was inspired by our OG color-separating blend, CfM Riverbed . We wanted to try our hand at making even more layered colors—and once we got going, we couldn't stop! Team members were texting ideas, swatches and color scraps covered our work tables, and our resident poets began thinking up fun names . . . while in the span of a week two colors turned into three which turned into seven . . . you get the idea! CfM Ultra-Blends are custom colors with endless possibilities!

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We just can't help ourselves, the colors keep on coming—so much so that our original Custom Feels blends set has expanded not once, not twice, but thrice! Pair your Max Feels with our Core Collection 48 Palette and Final 14 Palette to complete your CfM handmade watercolor collection! This set comes in our CFM X Large Palette , which we love for its spacious mixing wells and easy-to-clean design. All of our premade sets include a swatch card letterpress printed by our friends at Aesthetic Union —what better way to get to know your new colors than a meditative swatching session?!

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We just can't help ourselves; the colors keep on coming—so much so that our Custom Feels set had to expand! This second iteration includes the first twenty-four of our custom blends; check out our Ultimate Feels thirty-six blends set for even more watercolor fun! This set comes in our standard CfM Medium Palette . All of our premade sets include a swatch card letterpress printed by our friends at Aesthetic Union —what better way to get to know your new colors than a meditative swatching session?!

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100% cotton, cold press watercolor paper with the lovely, soft texture of our dreams! Ideal for watercolor, gouache or inks, and wonderfully compatible with our favorite Nichiban masking tape or liquid frisket . When our manufacturer gauged our interest in colorful glued edges, we of course replied, "Well, how many colors can we have?!" We really didn't anticipate how cute they would turn out—and we're absolutely obsessed! The blocks are glue-bound on all four sides, so your paper stays flat while you paint and as your work dries.

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A smooth, semi-transparent and lightfast lake pigment. It’s made by fixing a manufactured French mineral pigment to a natural calcium carbonate base, which gives it a soft, velvety matte finish when dry. All of our watercolors are handmade in our shop using the highest quality earth and synthetic pigments, plus natural watercolor binding medium made from gum arabic (sap from acacia trees), honey, glycerine, distilled water, and a dash of clove oil for freshness! Half Pans measure ~3/4" x 1/2" x 3/8" and contain ~2ml of paint.

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With this bundle, you save $6! We're excited to offer our mini bundles with just enough of the good stuff to get you going! This mini bundle includes three of our favorite CfM blended handmade watercolors that build to be a lovely alternative set of primaries and is super fun to mix to create some great secondary and tertiary colors! All you need is some watercolor paper (we recommend our Classic Pads or Watercolor Postcards ) and a bit of water and you're ready for a whole lot of painting!

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Indigo was one of our first handmade watercolors, a must-have in a palette! This rich synthetic color simulates Genuine Indigo and provides a wide range of tones—at its darkest it appears almost black! Both colors are fantastic for layering, glazing, and color mixing (a little bit goes a long way!) and are wonderfully opaque at full saturation. Genuine Indigo is derived from the Indigofera tinctoria plant through a fermentation process, and further refined to achieve greater saturation and intensity.

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This is the black we've wanted and didn't know was possible. We decided to challenge ourselves to see if we could make it—our whole team got involved and we used three of our richest primary colors to create this perfect inky black! We're literally obsessed and can't wait for you to try it! All of our watercolors are handmade in our shop using the highest quality earth and synthetic pigments, plus natural watercolor binding medium made from gum arabic (sap from acacia trees), honey, glycerine, distilled water, and a dash of clove oil for freshness!

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We just can't help ourselves, the colors keep on coming—so much so that our original Custom Feels set has expanded twice! This set comes in our CFM Large Palette , which we love for its spacious mixing wells and easy-to-clean design. All of our premade sets include a swatch card letterpress printed by our friends at Aesthetic Union —what better way to get to know your new colors than a meditative swatching session?!

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A total classic. Use as a glue, sealer, finish, or all-in-one! Perfect for collaging. We love using it to decorate and seal the cover of a sketchbook! Choice of Matte or Glossy finish. Formula is non-toxic and easily washable with soap and water. Great for kids! Available in - 4oz (118 ml)…

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Compact, easy to grip letter stamps in a playful font! These uppercase and lowercase sets are great to have around for gift tags, cards, cubby labels and more. Try them with our colorful Yellow Owl All-Surface Ink Pads ! Uppercase package measures ~1 .75" x wide x 3.25" long x 1 .75"; each letter is ~1/4" Lowercase package measures ~2" x wide x 2.75" long x 1.75" high; each letter is ~1/4"

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Open Studio Days for CfM Art Room! 4035 Judah St, San Francisco, next door to our shop! Studio days reserved especially for our trusted CfM community members! Book a spot, grab your favorite supplies and come hang for the day! We'll have the Art Room set up and ready to host your projects. Think of it as a shared space for focused, creative play—no computers allowed! Just check in at the shop for your door code and come and go as you please from there...grab a coffee next door, pick up lunch to enjoy in the backyard, and spend a cozy day making art!

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Fun colors and a chunky zipper? Yes please! These pouches are a great handy-but-compact option for pens, sharpeners, and all the little supplies you want at the ready wherever you go. Each measures ~8" x 4"

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We're so excited to offer a curated, rotating selection of our handmade core watercolors in Art Toolkit's standard pans, so you can build your own dream set! The Art Toolkit Pocket Palette can fit up to 12 standard pans; the Demi Palette can fit up to 6. Art Toolkit's mini pans are exactly half the length of the standard pans, so you can mix-and-match sizes in your palette! Each palette includes a magnetic sheet that holds the pans in place, and allows for easy adjustments to your color selections. A fun and efficient system, and all-around perfect day-pack option!

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TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 6:30pm - 8:30pm PT This is an in-person workshop at CfM Art Room: 4035 Judah St, San Francisco, next door to our shop! Ever stood in front of a painting wishing you had your paints with you? This workshop was born from exactly that feeling. We'll use projected abstract artworks as our reference and build a color map together -- a kind of paint-by-numbers where the "numbers" are your own personal notes about the colors you see.

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This latex-free, black eraser is a staff favorite and works to limit the amount of eraser shavings that collect on your work surface into one big shaving for easy clean up! Sakura Sumo Grip Erasers feature a microporous, open-cell foam technology that works like ultra-fine sandpaper to get into the grooves and pits of the paper surface. Measures: about 2"…

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128 pages / acid-free / accepts light watercolor washes without buckling

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This series of paintings was created to celebrate the female purveyors behind the San Francisco restaurant, Flour + Water's, special Women's Month tasting menu. Size 9" x 12" 11 people from our team worked together to collectively create these watercolor paintings, one color mark at a time. Our team is inspired by curiosity, craft and experimentation and we made this series of works in celebration of the visionary women behind each of these beautiful ingredients. We're happy to offer them for sale here as the first original artworks created by our team.

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We love Art Toolkit palettes for their sleek, all-metal design and ultra-portability! We're so excited to offer two sizes and colors of these adorable, pocket-sized cases, each in its own screenprinted canvas drawstring bag. Build your own dream set with our handmade paints in Art Toolkit's Standard and Mini sized pans—you can find them all here ! Art Toolkit's Pocket Palette can fit up to 12 Art Toolkit Standard Pans or 24 Mini Pans (pans sold separately). The case measures 3-5/8" x 2-1/4" x 1/4" (~92mm x 64mm x 7mm) when closed.

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Saturday, July 18, 11:00am - 12:30pm PT This is an online workshop held via Zoom. Mother Nature continues to be one of our best muses! Butterflies have been a popular motif historically in art and design, perhaps for their fleeting beauty and fragility, and watercolour is the perfect medium to explore their iridescent wings. In this session we’ll be studying butterflies & moths and observing their wide range of patterns and textures - their symmetry allows for repetition and practicing techniques.

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