- More discontinued pigments. - WetCanvas: Online Living for Artists
Nevertheless, it’s somewhat fugitive and slightly toxic, so it has lost favor in fine-art uses Daniel Smith offers a tube of single-pigment watercolor (for which, suspiciously, they claim a lightfastness of “II — Very Good” …) PV49 Cobalt Violet This has become extremely difficult to find at standard manufacturers
- Watercolor - WetCanvas: Online Living for Artists
FINISHED paintings created with watercolor paints, watercolor pencils, or gouache go here They may be painted on any surface compatible with watercolor such as paper, gesso, YUPO, clay board, and illustration board Small enhancements using other media to add highlights, draw lines, create resists, or make corrections may be acceptable
- Flattening completed paintings that are warped
I have been struggling to get my watercolor paper to not warp as I paint (an all too common problem!) Even after upgrading to 100% cotton paper (Arches 140 lb), it still warps I’m planning on trying some different methods of stretching the paper beforehand to prevent this, but in the meantime I have several paintings that are already done
- Non-Granulating Alternative to Ultramarine? - WetCanvas: Online Living . . .
Useful links: Watercolor FAQs - Watercolor Handbook - Handprint - Listing of Watercolor Societies - Watercolor Guide (Pigment Listing) November 25, 2016 at 8:44 pm #1260724 CharM Moderator Watercolour Forum
- Watercolor Handbook - Lightfastness and Permanancy of Watercolors . . .
2) The Wilcox Guide to the Best Watercolor Paints, by Michael Wilcox This excellent book provides lots of information to help you select the best paints Make sure the edition you rely on is recent – my local library has only a 5-year-old edition I have the 2001-2002 edition, and I’ll get the newest one as soon as I see that it’s available
- Best books to learn watercolor - WetCanvas: Online Living for Artists
I started painting watercolor about 1 5 years and my first watercolor book purchase was Gorden MacKensie’s book, ‘The Complete Book of Watercolor Painting ’ I ordered it off Amazon after reading a couple reviews and devoured it The one I bought included landscape elements as well (sky, water, rocks, trees, etc)
- Painting over watercolors? - WetCanvas: Online Living for Artists
Oil and watercolor techniques are very different, so the sooner you move to oil, the better If you want – and it’s a good idea – use your watercolor pencils to do a rough study sketch for reference If you’re still interested in trying out the watercolor-first approach, go for it, but on a test piece or two
- Kuretake Gansai Tambi 12 watercolors set review
Very nice work, Marialena Personally, a lack of lightfastness would be a bigger killer for me than the mixing problem you highlight To solve the mixing problem, you just buy a bigger box with enough colors — Kuretake offers boxes up to 36 colors of gansai* and others offer huge sets of 96 and bigger, so I suspect these colors are not intended to be mixed like Western watercolors
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