Pigment at Tennozu Isle, Tokyo

Made a trip to Pigment at Tennozu Isle, off Shinagawa seaside after reading the report by Colossal.

Walls of pigment crystals, pigment binders and mixers, papers and brushes, it's like a wonderland of Colours!

Learnt so much on Colours and materials and textures!

These walls of pigments are harvested from mineral rocks of different Colours and shades.

A mineral rock sample. What Colours do you see?  

Colours and shades 

I never knew there were that many shades of colour(and rocks)! Some so close that was tough for me to differentiate them.

Walls of jars of pigments! 

Within the traditional tools we spotted a new brush that doesn't quite look like one because it's a finger brush! It comes in all finger and brush sizes of small to large too!

Paint with your fingers with the finger brush  

Staff working at the store are real artists and they were so friendly in telling us more about each item and letting us try them out at the free space at the back of the store.

The lovely Mslatenightjam trying out the finger brush.  

Papers dated back a long time in China as well as Japan. For Japanese painting, a variety of papers can be found of different textures and thickness with some really fancy ones with little gold leaves in them.

Japanese sumi art paper  

They also have an enormous collection of handmade brushes for Japanese painting. Some really micro-thin and some as thick as my domestic broom! These are all handmade by traditional craftsmen.

Walls of brushes of different shapes and sizes  

One particular item caught my eye and stole my heart. Not a brush but a glass capillary pen in bamboo! It's so incredibly light and it draws so well, better than any fountain pen! So addictive that we couldn't stop doodling with that! I regret not taking a video of the awesome-ness of it.

A Japanese craft TV program the other day featured the full glass pen (different from the one below) and they were so much in demand that it's a long waitlist!

The glass capillary pen in bamboo. On my wish list now! :P

So we kept trying out tools and paints. No doubt the best way to learn is to actually do, or use things! So here's our masterpiece with the paints!

Our masterpiece! (Towards the left)  

Thank you to Mslatenightjam for coming out with me to Pigment!

Pigment is a must visit for all who love colours! They also host workshops by art professionals so keep a lookout!