Ithaca, New York · Art kits & workshops

Pack the red.
Paint the gorge.

Pigment & Pine makes watercolor kits, acrylic paint sets and brush sets in Ithaca, New York — packed light enough to carry down into the gorges and loaded for the color the water throws back at you.

Watercolor kitsWet stone
Acrylic paint setsDry cliff
Brush setsRolled to travel

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A narrow slot of wet gorge rock with a thin waterfall falling into a plunge pool — **Fig. 01** A thin falls dropping into the plunge pool below the trail.

The kits

Three kits, packed for three kinds of ground.

Each box is put together for the place you are painting: wet stone at the bottom of the gorge, dry cliff in the sun, or the handrail between the two. Pick the ground, take the kit.

Kit 01
Watercolor kits

Loose, translucent color that runs with the water. Built for plunge pools, spray and the flat gray stone underneath them.
For wet ground
Kit 02
Acrylic paint sets

Opaque and coverable, bold enough to hold a wet rock wall in full sun and patient enough to be worked over again before the light goes.
For dry cliff
Kit 03
Brush sets

Rolled and travel-ready. Edges, corners and one clean line for the rim of the falls — the part of the descent your hand is doing.
For the handrail

An open watercolor kit laid out on a stone ledge beside a gorge trail — **Fig. 02** A watercolor kit opened on the ledge above the water.

Online art workshops

Paint alongside us, from your own table.

Workshops run online, so a wet afternoon in Ithaca and a wet afternoon anywhere else can be the same afternoon. Bring the kit you packed and we take it from the top of the range down.

How a workshop runs

Step by step, brush in hand.

Watercolor, acrylic and brush work, taught in the order the trails run here — ground first, then water, then light.

01 Join from wherever you are
02 Watercolor and acrylic, brushes in hand
03 Work at your own pace, ask as you go

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An artist's hands mixing a strong red on a palette at a work table

In-person retreats

Retreats, up where the sky opens.

Higher ground, longer light and a group of painters working from the same palette. The mist drops below you and there is nothing overhead but sky.

A wide view from a gorge rim at dawn with layered hills fading into mist — **Fig. 03** The ridge at first light, before the mist lifts out of the gorge.

Retreats take the whole thing outdoors — gorge, water, and hours of painting with no screen in the way.

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The community

The water pools here. So do the painters.

Everyone who carries a kit down one of these trails ends up in the same place — flat ground, wet stone, paint drying in the sun. That is the community we are building, and you are already on the way down.

A small group of painters working on rocks at the base of a gorge waterfall, seen from a distance — **Fig. 04** A painting afternoon at the foot of the falls.

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New kits when they are packed, workshop news and retreat dates. Now and then, never often — and nothing that is not about paint.

Pack the red.Paint the gorge.