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
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
April Mini-Class IV Tutorial – Putting People in Your Paintings Part 2 – Closer figures mean More Detail As figures get closer you may have to show a little more detail The most important thing to watch are the proportions and balance in the pose of the figure
Making absorbent ground - WetCanvas: Online Living for Artists ) Saw a rather in depth demonstration of this at the San Diego Watercolor Society and it looked like rather rich color – it was simply amazing what the artist was doing, can’t remember her name but she is known for traveling to argentina and painting native people in colorful traditional garb