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,…
About watercolors and pigments, I describe different watercolors: history, pigments and their painting properties.
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 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…
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…
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 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…
Mayan yellow is one of several colors that have their roots in Mayan culture. Just like Mayan blue, the yellow color is produced, in a complicated process, from the indigo plant together with palygorskite….
Something you hardly associate with watercolor is graphite. Not to paint with, in any case. For the sketch for a watercolor, graphite is used in the form of a pencil, but there are actually…
Peach black or Vine black is a black color obtained from charred plant parts. The origin varies, some prefer to use old vines that were charred, others prefer stone fruit seeds such as peach…