Manganese Blue PB33 vs imitations
Manganese Blue (PB33) is a pigment that hasn’t been manufactured since the late 1980s. It can still be found through small producers of handmade paints, but if you come across the paint, it will…
Category: Colors and pigments
About watercolors and pigments, I describe different watercolors: history, pigments and their painting properties.
Which paints granulate?
My participants in the watercolor courses I teach have repeatedly asked for a list of which colors granulate. I want to share this list with everyone reading here on akvarell.se. I’ve chosen to also…
Isoindolinone Yellow (PY110)
To begin with, it’s easy to confuse Isoindolinone Yellow (PY110), which this text is about, with Isoindoline Yellow (PY139). However, these are two different pigments that share some properties but are not the same,…
Yellow favorites
The first thing I need to point out about yellow paints is that I find them troublesome. Most yellow shades offered by various paint manufacturers tend to be flat, unremarkable, and dull. Many of…
Blue favorites
There are many nice blue watercolors, and I like most of them. I use blue color for a lot, and blue is an essential component in most of the color mixes I create. Additionally,…
Magnesium Ferrite (PBr11)
Magnesium Ferrite is a relatively new pigment, created in 1962, and only a few manufacturers of watercolor paints use it. It is produced through the calcination of a mixture of iron oxide and magnesium…
Lamp Black | PBk6, PBk7
I know it’s often said that one should not use black watercolor paint. Some even claim that the color is “forbidden.” For me, this is nonsense; of course, you can use whatever colors you…
Three triads
A combination of three colors, that forms an equilateral triangle on the color wheel, is usually called a color triad. These colors are thus all always the same distance from each other, but can…
Indigo – NB1
Indigo is a dye that is extracted from more than 30 different species of the plant Indigofera, which is widely present in large parts of the world. It is from the green leaves that…
