I though to myself "Self, you should do that!"
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| yellow |
And since I'm cheep and I have a lot of little booklets of random watercolor paper,
This is how I swatched my colors before
This exercise not only gives me one place to see all my colors,
I have wandered sidways into trying out some of the more expensive tubes of professional grade paints
from the box of art supplies a month in a box company "Sketchbox".
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| Orange |
I got my ruler out and outlined the pages of one myself.
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| Old color swatches |
This is how I swatched my colors before
Its an acceptable way to do it but
I have gotten more paints since then
and ran out of room
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| Brown |
This exercise not only gives me one place to see all my colors,
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| Blue/green |
It gives me an example of how those colors interact with water.
And that is important because with watercolors you are not only playing with pigment
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| Blue |
you are playing with water and how it reacts with the pigments
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| Reds |
Honestly it's the water part I work on controlling the most
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| Purples |
Do they feather, do they fade or cauliflower, do they granulate, do they separate?
This aspect of WC painting is endlessly fascinating to me
Watching it mix or bloom into other colors or not
some colors don't bloom into colors they suck up colors
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| Pinks |
All watercolor paints do at least one of these things, some do several of these things at once
You don't find this out just using the cheep cake paints, of our youth
you really do need at least 1/2 pans of something professional or at least student grade.
I recommend Daniel smith, Windsor Newton or Schmeink.
They have very nice sets in travel boxes that aren't too expensive to just play with
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| Iridescent colors |
in Daniel smith which is my favorite less expensive Watercolor so far.
The L'Aquirelle and MiremirBlu are also very nice but they are $10-20 a 5oz or 15oz
tube so be cautioned,
this hobby gets expensive fast!
