The Prairie Palette: A Martha Mae x A. Gallo Watercolor Palette

A.Gallo and Martha Mae Art Supplies & Beautiful Things present the Prairie Palette.

Drawing inspiration from the rich hues of the foliage and sky of the Midwestern Prairie, we thoughtfully designed this palette for painting dramatic landscapes, skyscapes, and autumnal botanicals. Made by hand in Assisi, Italiy, A. Gallo watercolors are crafted according to a traditional recipe of raw pigments, gum arabic, local honey, and rosemary essential oil.

Colors include: Buff Titanium, Quin Gold, Trans Red Oxide, Perylene Maroon, Morellone, Burnt Umber Dark, Green Gold, Olive Green Deep, Harbor Blue, Indanthrone Blue, Payne's Gray, Zirconium Blue.

Every batch of paint is made from premium pigments and hand poured into pans. This intensive process creates a very pigmented, luminous, and pure paint with excellent lightfastness that activates beautifully when wet.

Each palette contains a hand tied traditional mop pocket brush series 1337 by Tintoretto Brushes. The synthetic squirrel fiber of this exclusive pocket brush is bound with a golden wire to a tumbled black handle. 

A. Gallo Colors handmade watercolor palettes feature individually wrapped pans with hand-painted labels, inside a professional watercolor tin and accompanied by a Tintoretto brush, made in Italy.

A. Gallo is lead by artist Alina Gallo who has a background in Italian and Persian paint-making traditions. In 2017, with her husband Giuliano Matteucci, she founded A. Gallo Colors in Assisi following a period of research into Timurid, Safavid and Ottoman manuscripts in collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum Department of Islamic Arts, the Topkapi Palace Library in Istanbul and the Museum of Art at Bowdoin College’s Islamic Manuscript Collection.

This is a part of the Martha Mae program where we partner with makers that we admire to design products to delight you and expand your creativity.