Stretching a paper means taking advantage of the fact that a wet paper is larger than a dry one. When you wet a paper, it swells, a large sheet can be several centimeters larger when wet. When the paper dries,…
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The gummed paper tape is needed when stretching watercolor paper and when framing. The tape is made of paper and has a gummed surface, which means that you must use water to make it sticky. There is brown and white…
Ever heard of a watercolor paper surface gluing? No! Then you should read this. All paper has glue in the pulp, otherwise the paper would not stick together. Some papers have only a little glue others are glued hard, depending…
There are different black colors, not all are good. This is a small evaluation of the most common three and a less common one. Lamp Black – PBk7 The most common is Lamp Black, it comes with pretty much all…
Try to mix Cobalt blue and cadmium red to a purple color, it is not possible, although blue and red should become purple in theory. Then try French ultramarine and Alizarin, the mixture is great. Why is this? Here is…
One of the most common statements I hear in my courses is: “I can not draw”. Then I usually ask “how often do you draw?” the answer is always the same: Never. No one believes that a long-distance runner is…
Actually, it’s simple: Buy the best you can get. Unfortunately, it is quite expensive to buy only the best. The beginner may not want to start by spending hundreds of dollars on materials. Therefore, here are some tips that can…
This exercise is about Flat washes, it is a basic technique in watercolor. I may return to at a later time how to do a flat wash. But the principle is: Tilt the paper, paint with a lot of paint…
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A “palette” is the colors that a watercolor painter has at his disposal. There are as many palettes as there are watercolor painters. Some want a large number of colors (perhaps to avoid mixing) others want to limit their palette…