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…
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…
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 painting an exercise like this, with many washes, it can be useful to think about which colors are suitable for the technique. Since a flat wash is a way of painting that depends…
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…
It is often said that with three primary colors, all other colors can be mixed. Therefore, we will test this with a few simple mixing exercises. To try these yourself, I recommend the following…
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…
