Orange-brown favorites
It may sound strange to describe colours as orange-brown.The reason is to distinguish them from other brownish colours that lean toward yellow or red – those will be treated separately. There are so many…
Category: Colors and pigments
About watercolors and pigments, I describe different watercolors: history, pigments and their painting properties.
What the Hell Is a Swatch?
If you’re interested in watercolor painting and start looking for information on YouTube, chances are you’ll come across someone carefully painting watercolor in small squares. As far as I know, there’s no real term…
Enhancing Granulation
When using granulating colors in a painting and wanting to emphasize the patterns these pigments create, you can’t paint in the usual way. You need to create an environment that these colors enjoy “bathing”…
Vermilion – PR106
Natural Vermilion Vermilion, or as the color is called in Swedish and German: Cinnober (Zinnober), is no longer a watercolor pigment – today it is just a name for an orange-red made from various…
Burnt and raw
Some earth colors occur in both burnt and raw forms. This applies mainly to siennas and umbers, which often have these designations added to their names. Occasionally, other earth colors may also have such…
Benzimidazolone Brown (Pbr25)
Benzimidazolone Brown is a very popular ingredient in many mixed paints, but as a standalone pigment in watercolor, it is not as commonly used. This is a bit unfortunate because it’s a very pleasant…
Transparency of watercolor paints
Transparent watercolours allow light to pass through, which means the light from the white paper shines back through such a layer of paint. This is one of watercolour’s most characteristic properties, and when used…
Red Favourites
Warm reds, in general, are tricky, in my opinion. Many of the ones that are beautiful on their own are difficult to mix with — and some that are good for mixing don’t look…
Phthalo Turquois (PB16)
The color most commonly referred to as Phthalo Turquoise (PB16) is not as widely used as other phthalo blue colors. A handful of major manufacturers offer it, sometimes under imaginative names: Although the pigment…
