About us
The first handmade watercolor brand born in Sicily — where colors seem to come from an infinite palette.
The Concept
Color is not a finish. It is a design material.
For a long time, color was considered the final phase of a project: an aesthetic choice, a finish, a surface. Tìngiri Handmade Colors was born from the opposite perspective: to restore the role of design material to color, recognizing its origin, composition, and cultural value.
Painting is not just a gesture. It is a return to the origins.
Tingiri was born in Sicily, amidst intense light, salty wind, and colors that seem to have come from an infinite palette. After years of studies, trials, mistakes, mixed pigments, and stubborn dreams, we have created handmade watercolors designed for those who feel the need to truly express themselves.
In Sicilian, "Tingiri" means to paint. For us, it means much more: it means slowing down, observing, feeling.
Each color is made by hand, with care and passion, one by one. We do not just produce watercolors. We create tools to tell stories and emotions.
If you also feel the call of color, welcome to the Tingiri world.
Why Sicily
Sicily is not just a place. It is one of the greatest chromatic archives of the Mediterranean.
Sicily is taken not as an aesthetic theme, but as a laboratory of materials, geologies, and chromatic traditions to be reinterpreted through design.
Tìngiri Handmade Colors is a constantly evolving chromatic archive dedicated to the study, design, and dissemination of the identifying colors of Sicily.
Natural pigments, colors with history
Every Tingiri watercolor is born from hand-selected pigments — minerals, earths, and materials of the Mediterranean transformed into artisanal color.
Our values
Artisanal Passion
Every color is born from years of research, testing, and love for painting. Nothing is mass-produced.
Quality Pigments
We select only the best pigments, hand-mixed to ensure extraordinary intensity and brightness.
Natural Ingredients
Ingredients of mineral and plant origin, selected for their history and chromatic identity linked to the Sicilian territory.
100% Made in Sicily
Proudly made in Catania, amidst the scent of orange blossoms and incomparable Mediterranean light.
The Manifesto
The six principles of Tìngiri Handmade Colors
Color is matter.
Even before being perception, color is a material with a history, an origin, and a composition.
Color is territory.
Every pigment tells a story of a landscape, a geology, a production tradition, and a culture.
Color is design.
Materials, packaging, containers, visual identity, and communication constitute a single design system.
Color is memory.
Recovering natural pigments means preserving knowledge, techniques, and material heritage destined to disappear.
Color is future.
Research into traditional materials can generate new forms of contemporary design.
Color is experience.
The project is completed in the encounter between material, gesture, and user, transforming color into a tool for knowledge and connection.
About us
"Acquerelli stupendi!"
Francesca Navona
Recensione Google
"Veramente il loro sentire personale nella produzione di questi prodotti e al di là della bellezza di questi colori artigianali di cui si comprende subito la corposità la saturazione e anche la loro granulazione... apprezzo molto la loro filosofia."
Pamela C.
Recensione Google
"Nonostante io abbia altri acquerelli artigianali, questi hanno come qualcosa in più. Si comprende subito la corposità, la saturazione e il loro sentire personale nella produzione."
Carmen A.
Recensione Google
"Molto belli, veramente, li consiglio!"
Agnese B.
Illustratrice
"Colori vibranti e straordinari. Mi piacciono tantissimo!"
Lucia
Insegnante
"Pigmenti ricchi, ottima trasparenza e miscelazione fluida. Gli acquerelli Tingiri hanno carattere e personalità, ideali per chi ama materiali curati e fatti a mano."
Marco
Appassionato di acquerello
"Acquerelli splendidi: colori intensi, luminosi e facilissimi da lavorare. Si vede e si sente la qualità artigianale. Una vera gioia dipingere con Tingiri!"
Laura
Illustratrice
The Founder
Who is behind Tìngiri Handmade Colors
Dr. Gianmarco Toscano
Founder & CEO
A Product Design graduate, Gianmarco Toscano is the founder of Tìngiri Handmade Colors — a research and outreach project dedicated to natural pigments, identity colors, and the material traditions of Sicily.
He created Planimetrie.net, an innovative startup specializing in the artistic representation of spaces, now present in Italy and numerous foreign countries. Author of Unconventional Design, with a preface by Diego Dalla Palma and praise from Alessandro Mendini and Paola Marella.
Some of his works have been selected by art critic Vittorio Sgarbi for his private collection. He is a member of ADI, AIAP, and New European Bauhaus.
We don't produce simple watercolors. We create tools to tell stories and emotions.
— Gianmarco Toscano, CEO Tingiri Handmade Colors