Bringing an Antique Watercolor Kit Back to Life
6 min readMar 19, 2022
My dad gave me a bunch of his old art stuff. One item was this antique Winsor and Newton watercolor box, probably from the 1960s. I’ve been getting into watercolor painting recently, and thought it would be interesting to bring this kit back to life. Not restore it—that would be beyond my skills, and would result in an artifact too perfect to use—just get it back into operating condition, with close matches…
