Month: January 2023

Watercolour palette choices

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I made a custom watercolour palette for a friend using my tube paints. They requested transparent and non-granulating, so this is a little information about my choices (not all paints fit the request). I concentrated on single pigments but included a couple of convenience mixes. All of these should be lightfast. Paints with a * … Read more

Resources for getting started with watercolour painting

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I became interested in watercolour painting back in 2018 – at first, it was just to make pretty backgrounds for greeting cards, but YouTube kept recommending beginner’s watercolour tutorials at me and I soon started considering making art with them. My first set of “watercolours” was a set of Viviva Colorsheets (actually dyes, not pigment-based … Read more