Vallis Clausa
There are small local paper mills that make fine paper, and some even make watercolor paper. The papers are often a bit special and have different properties than ordinary papers from large manufacturers. I…
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Lonely Tree – A simple watercolor exercise
This is a rather simple little watercolor exercise with only two colors, which can still become a painting worthy of being framed on your wall. The colors for the painting are French ultramarine and…
Quinacridone Purple PV55
The color commonly referred to as Quinacridone Purple is a relatively new watercolor paint. The first one on the market was introduced by Daniel Smith in 2011. Following the initial introduction of this color,…
Da Vinci Casaneo
I rarely buy new watercolor brushes. I already have way too many and take good care of them, so they last a very long time. But sometimes a new watercolor brush comes along that…
Granulating paints
For most beginners, granulating paints are an unfamiliar concept. They are hardly colors that you are looking for and they are almost never included in ready-made watercolor boxes. In addition, they are often more…
Transparent Yellow Oxide – PY42
The third and final color in Daniel Smith’s series of transparent and granulating mars browns discussed here is the yellow color. The other two are Transparent Red Oxide and Transparent Brown Oxide. Transparent Yellow…
Kåseberga harbour
Kåseberga is a small town on the southern coast of Skåne. About a hundred meters from the harbor is the megalithic monument Ale’s Stones. Kåseberga used to be an important fishing village, fishing and…
Fabriano Artistico
Fabriano paper mill is Europe’s first major paper producer. There is evidence that cotton paper from the small town of Fabiano was already produced in the latter part of the 13th century. The paper…
Color mixing chart
Do an image search on ”mixing watercolors” or similar, and you will get results that look like the image above. Diagrams of different watercolors mixed in a grid, which I’m sure takes a long…
