Regina's Watercolor is a small business specializing in watercolor gifts and accessories that are hand-crafted in small batches.
We believe in quality products that create a fun experience for both beginners and experts in watercolor.
We believe in quality products that create a fun experience for both beginners and experts in watercolor.
Regina & her favorite things
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Jordan & Regina
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Our Story
Regina grew up enjoying crafty projects from beading, to making sand-art and paint-by number. Due to scheduling conflicts, she received no formal art education after childhood. In school, Art classes were always slotted for the same period as Band. Thankfully, a kind art teacher allowed her to paint ceiling tiles during study break and Regina was able to participate in several ceramics electives during summer camp and college.
As an adult, her mission was to serve humanity much like the starfish thrower (help one person at a time). In the social work field there was little time for creative projects. Between an unrelenting schedule and emotional wear and tear, Regina needed a change.
In pursuit of a "fun job" Regina became a certified floral designer. It became a fun hobby but did not fit as the right career. Meanwhile learning to chill out and just doodle for fun became geometric artwork that needed color. Regina bought watercolor paint on a whim and was hooked!
Watercolor is a wonderfully finnicky thing. It wasn't long until Regina was crafting her own palettes and learning about paint making. She had to fix her cheaply-made tube set from the bargain bin! After going into 'researcher-mode' she knew it had to be made with pigments, transparent and lightfast (meaning the color wouldn't fade). With no real equipment she played and experimented. She developed her own watercolor medium, made with honey. The results were absolutely amazing. It finally felt like the right paint for her art.
Meanwhile, during avid consumption of watercolor tutorials, Regina fell into the often problematic beading paint problem. Watercolor is all about blending new colors but that is impossible to see when the blends pull up into droplets on the mixing surface. She tried every method to fix her growing collection of palettes. Soap, glue, sanding and repeated toothpaste applications were just a bummer to deal with. Beading paint was distracting from the main goal-painting her pictures! Ceramic or a porcelain plates worked best but they were hard to cover and impossible to travel with. One day the idea to try a sheet of glass popped into Regina's head.
Weeks of trial and error on how to coat the glass ensued. Once Regina had the perfect palette to get started-she realized she had something truly special and maybe a new career option too. She was feeling pretty good about selling her palettes empty. Then her husband, Jordan stated it would be more appealing if she put paint in them.
In preparing to add paint making to her new job description, there was a descent into the world of buying pigments to make watercolor. It seemed that what she wanted (pigment, transparent, lightfast) increased pigment price and Cobalt Violet (her favorite pigment color) was a shocker as it was the most costly with the added issue of safety and handling warnings attached. Regina could not find Cobalt Violet in a non-toxic variety to match what she found in her Hydrus set and as she was not keen on dangerous art supplies, she opted to find out more from the company (today Regina makes all of her colors exclusively with genuine Dr. Ph. Martin's® Hydrus® Fine Art Watercolor, Set 1 Color System). "Non-toxic" was quickly added to Regina's list of attributes desired for her paints.
With palettes, paint making, legal and technical web details lined up Regina began making her first watercolor sets while constructing a studio space. Regina and Jordan were all set to launch the shop fall 2018. Then hurricane Michael hit Panama City, Florida where they lived. Regina was able to save some of her supplies and palettes from the rubble. She and Jordan now homeless and jobless moved cross-country with the help of family.
With 100 palettes and some materials left, Regina determined to follow through with launching Regina's Watercolor online late January 2019. The response and feedback has been wonderful and the future is looking bright. Regina and Jordan feel honored to be part of the watercolor community and share the joy.
Regina grew up enjoying crafty projects from beading, to making sand-art and paint-by number. Due to scheduling conflicts, she received no formal art education after childhood. In school, Art classes were always slotted for the same period as Band. Thankfully, a kind art teacher allowed her to paint ceiling tiles during study break and Regina was able to participate in several ceramics electives during summer camp and college.
As an adult, her mission was to serve humanity much like the starfish thrower (help one person at a time). In the social work field there was little time for creative projects. Between an unrelenting schedule and emotional wear and tear, Regina needed a change.
In pursuit of a "fun job" Regina became a certified floral designer. It became a fun hobby but did not fit as the right career. Meanwhile learning to chill out and just doodle for fun became geometric artwork that needed color. Regina bought watercolor paint on a whim and was hooked!
Watercolor is a wonderfully finnicky thing. It wasn't long until Regina was crafting her own palettes and learning about paint making. She had to fix her cheaply-made tube set from the bargain bin! After going into 'researcher-mode' she knew it had to be made with pigments, transparent and lightfast (meaning the color wouldn't fade). With no real equipment she played and experimented. She developed her own watercolor medium, made with honey. The results were absolutely amazing. It finally felt like the right paint for her art.
Meanwhile, during avid consumption of watercolor tutorials, Regina fell into the often problematic beading paint problem. Watercolor is all about blending new colors but that is impossible to see when the blends pull up into droplets on the mixing surface. She tried every method to fix her growing collection of palettes. Soap, glue, sanding and repeated toothpaste applications were just a bummer to deal with. Beading paint was distracting from the main goal-painting her pictures! Ceramic or a porcelain plates worked best but they were hard to cover and impossible to travel with. One day the idea to try a sheet of glass popped into Regina's head.
Weeks of trial and error on how to coat the glass ensued. Once Regina had the perfect palette to get started-she realized she had something truly special and maybe a new career option too. She was feeling pretty good about selling her palettes empty. Then her husband, Jordan stated it would be more appealing if she put paint in them.
In preparing to add paint making to her new job description, there was a descent into the world of buying pigments to make watercolor. It seemed that what she wanted (pigment, transparent, lightfast) increased pigment price and Cobalt Violet (her favorite pigment color) was a shocker as it was the most costly with the added issue of safety and handling warnings attached. Regina could not find Cobalt Violet in a non-toxic variety to match what she found in her Hydrus set and as she was not keen on dangerous art supplies, she opted to find out more from the company (today Regina makes all of her colors exclusively with genuine Dr. Ph. Martin's® Hydrus® Fine Art Watercolor, Set 1 Color System). "Non-toxic" was quickly added to Regina's list of attributes desired for her paints.
With palettes, paint making, legal and technical web details lined up Regina began making her first watercolor sets while constructing a studio space. Regina and Jordan were all set to launch the shop fall 2018. Then hurricane Michael hit Panama City, Florida where they lived. Regina was able to save some of her supplies and palettes from the rubble. She and Jordan now homeless and jobless moved cross-country with the help of family.
With 100 palettes and some materials left, Regina determined to follow through with launching Regina's Watercolor online late January 2019. The response and feedback has been wonderful and the future is looking bright. Regina and Jordan feel honored to be part of the watercolor community and share the joy.
Employee of the Month...
Every Month
Every Month
Thomas Edison
Inspiration: "Cats Playing Hungry Hungry Hippos" by THE OATMEAL,which was inspired by "Dogs Playing Poker" by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge.
Meet the Cat
Going by many aliases is this cat who seriously needs a kitten… AKA Eddy, Tommy, Fluffynutter and Punkermuffin... He fulfills the emotional support and absolute diva roles in our productions.
He also thinks he’s in charge of quality control so we try to humor him.
Going by many aliases is this cat who seriously needs a kitten… AKA Eddy, Tommy, Fluffynutter and Punkermuffin... He fulfills the emotional support and absolute diva roles in our productions.
He also thinks he’s in charge of quality control so we try to humor him.
Cats really are party animals.
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