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Book Review: Painting Watercolours on Canvas by Liz Chaderton
Using watercolour on canvas has never cross my mind until I saw this book. It's great that there are artists who are always experimenting. Liz Chaderton is a professional artist who specialises in...
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Review: Stephen Quiller Watercolor
I bought a few tubes of Stephen Quiller Watercolor from Amazon recently during a sale. The colours I've bought areTransparent Yellow (PY154)Pyrrole Red (PR254)Quinacridone Red (PR202)Quinacridone...
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Staining vs Non Staining Watercolour
Watercolour has many characteristics, such as whether it's transparent or opaque, whether it granulates or stain.When watercolour is described as staining, it means once the paint is dry on paper, it's...
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List of 100% cotton watercolour sketchbooks
A few years ago, I wrote an article called "Best Watercolour Sketchbook for Artists" that featured some sketchbooks I think are good value for artists. The quality of those sketchbooks are good, but...
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Bronzite and Burnt Bronzite (Daniel Smith Watercolor)
Daniel Smith's Bronzite Genuine is made from the Bronzite stone found in Brazil. It's a warm bronze colour that looks distinctly different from the many earth colours from Daniel Smith's range. Skin...
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Cobalt Green PG50 vs Cobalt Teal Blue PG50
For the longest time, I've always thought PG50 exists only as one colour, that teal pastel like colour. It was only recently when I saw Cobalt Green which also uses PG50 that I was surprised. Different...
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Red Jasper Genuine (Daniel Smith Watercolor)
Red Jasper Genuine is a medium reddish maroon colour according to Daniel Smith. It's a granulating, semi-transparent, non-staining paint with excellent lightfastness. Daniel Smith's stock of this...
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Complementary colours for Stephen Quiller Watercolor
On each tube of Stephen Quiller Watercolor, the complementary colour is listed. Below are the colours I have and their complementary (arranged alphabetically).If you have colours I don't have, let me...
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Cerulean Blue PB 35 vs Cerulean Blue Chromium PB 36
Daniel Smith Cerulean Blue vs Cerulean Blue Chromium. Which do you like?Cerulean Blue is more blue while Cerulean Blue Chromium has more green to it. Cerulean Blue also seem to be more granulating. The...
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Porcelain vs Plastic vs Metal Palettes for Watercolour
What's the best palette to use for mixing watercolour? Plastic, porcelain or metal? Porcelain palettes are the best to use with watercolour because they are absolutely water impermeable, and hence...
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Daniel Smith PBr7 watercolour pigment compared
Here are swatches of all colours from Daniel Smith that use the pigment PBr7These are convenient earth colours that good for mixing and neutralising other colours.Raw Umber vs Burnt UmberBurnt Sienna...
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Review: Cretacolor Aqua Brique (watersoluble colour blocks)
Cretacolor Aqua Brique are water-soluble colour blocks. You can also think of them as water-soluble crayons. This box set I have was actually given to me by one of my Youtube viewers. Thank you very...
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Book Review: Tokyo At Night by Mateusz Urbanowicz
Tokyo At Night is the second artbook from Mateusz Urbanowicz, a freelance illustrator from Poland currently based in Tokyo Japan.This is a 160-page paperback that features absolutely beautiful...
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Review: Charlie's Wooden Watercolour Palette
Here's a beautiful wooden palette I received from South Korean artist Charlie Lee in Amsterdam a few months ago at the Urban Sketchers Symposium. Charlie had a booth at the symposium and was selling...
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Book Review: The Art of Watercolor Lettering: A Beginner's Step-by-Step Guide...
This is the followup to the early book on brush lettering by workshop instructor and lettering expert Kelly Klapstein.This book's a beginner's guide to brush lettering with watercolour. It assumes no...
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Book Review: Creative Watercolor: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners by Ana...
Creative Watercolor by Ana Victoria Calderon is a mixed media project book aimed at beginners who are looking to explore their creativity. Most of the projects can be completed with watercolour, but...
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Daniel Smith PR101 watercolour pigment compared
PR101 is synthetic red iron oxide. Depending on how the pigment is treated or heated, the resulting watercolour paint that's created from it can be transparent or opaque, appear reddish or brown. It's...
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Book Review: How to Paint Landscapes Quickly and Beautifully in Watercolor...
Nathan Fowkes is an accomplished artist whose client includes Disney, Blue Sky and Disney. He's the guy who creates background concept art for big studios. His work is absolutely gorgeous so it's...
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Watercolour Paint For Sale
I'm selling some of my watercolour paint to make way for more that I can test and review on my blog and Youtube channel. Thanks for helping out.Price (not including shipping)These are the sets...
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Yellows made with PY150, PY151, PY153, PY154 and PY159
These are the various colours from paints made with the pigments PY150, PY151, PY153, PY154 and PY159. There are other yellow pigments from PY150 to PY159 but not all are made into paint. All the...
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