ROSA Gallery Watercolour Dot Card — 100 Colours, Full Range Swatch Sheet, 38 Granulating Shades, Test Professional Paints Before You Buy

Buying watercolour is a gamble. A colour looks glorious in a photograph, arrives, and turns out chalky, or dull, or nothing like the swatch. Multiply that by a hundred and you understand why most painters stick to the eight colours they already trust.

The ROSA Gallery Dot Card removes the gamble. All 100 colours in the ROSA Gallery watercolour range, laid out as dried drops on watercolour paper. Wet a brush, lift the colour, and see exactly what you'd be buying — granulation, transparency, wet-to-dry shift and all.

What you get

• 100 colours — the complete ROSA Gallery watercolour palette. Not a selection, not a starter range. Everything.
• Proper watercolour paper, so the colours behave honestly rather than sitting on thin card.
• Extra-large dots. This is where most dot cards disappoint. There's enough paint in each drop for a full sketch — often several — not one thin swatch that runs out halfway.
• Identical to the pans and tubes. What you test here is exactly the shade that arrives when you order the full size, whether as a 2.5ml pan or a 10ml tube.
• Made in Ukraine by ROSA, developed in collaboration with professional artists.

What's actually in the range

Four numbers worth knowing before you spend anything on paint.

• 38 granulating colours. Well over a third of the range settles into the texture of the paper rather than drying flat. If you've been curious about granulating watercolours but reluctant to spend on full pans to find out which ones you like, this is the cheapest possible way to try them all.
• 44 single-pigment colours. Nearly half the range is made from one pigment only, which is what keeps two-colour mixes clean and bright instead of turning grey.
• 21 colours based on natural pigments. Earths and minerals with the subtlety and variation that synthetic equivalents rarely manage.
• 3 metallic shades, for highlights, lettering and finishing touches.

All of it testable on one sheet, for a fraction of the cost of finding out the hard way.

The paints you're testing

ROSA Gallery Professional Watercolours are developed to the requirements and recommendations of professional artists, using organic gum arabic and premium finely ground pigments.

• Organic gum arabic gives perfect adhesion and even colour flow.
• Finely ground pigments guarantee purity and transparency in every colour.
• High pigment concentration delivers everything from an airy transparent wash to full opacity, depending only on water.
• High lightfastness in every colour, achieved through selection and testing of pigments for intensity and permanence.
• Traditional natural drying means easy dilution and instant rewetting — the dots lift the moment a damp brush touches them.

ROSA has been manufacturing professional artist materials in Ukraine since 1996.

Shipping and packaging

Dispatched from our base in Staffordshire, UK. No long international waits and no customs charges for UK buyers. Dot cards are sent flat and protected so the sheet arrives uncreased and the dots intact.

Tracked UK delivery, with international shipping available.

Try all 100 before you commit

A hundred colours, enough paint in each dot to actually paint with, and a permanent reference chart at the end of it. Add the ROSA Gallery Dot Card to your basket — then browse our ROSA Gallery range of individual pans, sets and tubes once you know exactly which colours you want.

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