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Flat wash

A flat wash is in watercolor a completely flat painted surface without visible brushstrokes. The traditional way to achieve this is as follows: Mix so much paint so that you are convinced that it…

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Earth colors

Earth colors, the name itself has character, it says that the color is original, genuine, natural. Nothing can be further from the truth. The traditional index names for true earth colors are PBr7 and…

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Why use a limited palette

Try painting a picture that contains both quinacridone rose and cadmium red, or French ultramarine and phthalo blue. The coloring achieved with such a color combination is not beautiful, it is disharmonious, like tritone…

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Now you can print the posts

I have added a button to all blog posts, you can also see it below. The button is called PDF and gives you the opportunity to see the page as a document, and also…

Squares 3

Squares

Here is a fun exercise, it practices wet in wet technique and also the ability to paint accurately as well as carelessly. It also exercises the ability to perceive and reproduce fine value differences….

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Phthal green (PG7 – PG36)

There is nothing in nature that is as green as phthalo green. What is the use of such a color? It is almost ridiculously pure and green. When a new student comes to my…

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Masking fluid

Masking fluid is a liquid rubber solution that is applied to the watercolor paper to save parts of the white paper. Small white details are difficult to save by just painting around them. Then…