Raphaël Precision
Raphaël Precision is a synthetic brush that, according to the manufacturer, is designed to hold liquid well and serve as a synthetic alternative to natural hair brushes. I have been using a few of…
Category: Materials
Royal Watercolour Society – Watercolour Paper
The Royal Watercolour Society is the world’s oldest watercolour society. It was founded in 1804.From 1895, Hayle Mill produced a handmade watercolour paper exclusively for the Society. Production, however, ceased in 1985 when Hayle…
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”…
Hahnemühle – The Collection
When I started painting watercolors in the late 1970s, I didn’t know anything about materials. I thought all watercolor paper was the same, so I bought cheap supplies. One of the first watercolor papers…
Make a bubbly watercolor Painting flat
When you paint on a loose sheet of paper, and sometimes even in a block, the result can never be framed properly with a mat. The reason is that the mat will reveal every…
Watercolor brushes – what do you know about them?
A little quiz about watercolor brushes, a passing score is 6 out of 10 questions answered correctly (60%). The questions may be perceived as difficult, but you who read this blog are knowledgeable.
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…
Watercolor paper, front and back
I am often asked how to tell the front from the back of a sheet of paper when there is no watermark. For anyone using paper in blocks, this is not an issue—it’s obvious…
What do you know about watercolor paints?
This is a little quiz about watercolor paints. Since you who read this blog know a lot about watercolor and watercolor paints, the questions are quite difficult, the limit for passing is set at…
