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- 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
- 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
- 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
- Water = Watercolor? - WetCanvas: Online Living for Artists
Using watercolor and pastels is a historical way to paint, but most of today’s watercolor societies and galleries would call this approach mixed media Grinding up pastels and painting only with them, like gouache, would most commonly be deemed water media, not watercolor Only watercolor is watercolor
- Quinacridone rose (PV19) vs magenta (PR122); Which to choose?
I’d go for PV19 You know I pretty much only paint from little travel palettes, and PR122 keeps getting booted off of it!
- 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
- Pen and Ink and Watercolor Q - WetCanvas: Online Living for Artists
You’ve received some helpful answers from artists who use pen and ink with watercolor During a class discussion about pen and ink with watercolor, one of my instructors told us that we should decide if we were going to do a watercolor painting with accents of pen and ink or a pen and ink drawing with watercolor washes before we began the work
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