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…
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…
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”…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
