
Using both Watercolour and Acrylic in a painting – questions
Aug 26, 2010 · I’d like to do a painting (on watercolour paper, or illustration board) that uses acrylic paint very sparingly for certain flat/opaque/dark valued areas; and the rest of the areas in watercolour to …
Watercolor - WetCanvas: Online Living for Artists
Jun 24, 2025 · Join us for interesting and informative discussions of techniques, materials, and approaches to working with watercolors.
Pastels on watercolor paper? - WetCanvas: Online Living for Artists
Jul 29, 2013 · Watercolour paper comes, usually, in three types of surface….rough, NOT (or CP, cold pressed …NOT means, literally, not hot pressed, and Hot pressed. Here is an official quote: here are …
Making absorbent ground - WetCanvas: Online Living for Artists
Sep 16, 2017 · Now in order to make an absorbent ground you must find an ingredient that will absorb water ( and so watercolour) instead of repelling it. And that probably isn’t gypsum or chalk. My friend …
To stretch or not to stretch watercolor paper
Jun 18, 2016 · I avoid stretching watercolor paper sheets before I start my watercolor compositions by painting wet-on-dry or by using watercolor blocks. I do experience minimal buckling of the […]
Rose Madder Equivalent - WetCanvas: Online Living for Artists
Apr 7, 2009 · I’m reading through Watercolour Tips & Techniques which is an omnibus collection of books by Arnold Lowrey, Wendy Jelbert, Geoff Kersey and Barry Herniman. In the Kersey section …
How to store or keep watercolours? - WetCanvas: Online Living for Artists
Dec 1, 2017 · Over the years I have read here how people store or keep or dry their watercolours. Some keep them in cool places and som in warm places. […]
Your Own Substitutes for Opera Rose and Other Fugitives
Jul 11, 2015 · It’s made from PR122 which is fairly lightfast at best. Fairly lightfast? More like extemely lightfast. Quinacridone Magenta is the most lightfast Magenta available, better than Quinacridones …
Burnt Sienna – PR101 vs PBr7 – Which is good for what?
Aug 22, 2013 · Thank you Char so much, I was beginning to think I didn’t ask clearly enough.. I hardly ever do florals or portraits, so maybe that explains why I’m not getting along with burnt siena pr101. …
W&N replacements for Daniel Smith colors?
Jun 6, 2017 · My experience…. Daniel Smith on left, W&N on right: buff titanium -no pyrrole crimson- don’t know pth. blue rs — same undersea green — this is just pthalo and black, no W&N sub indian …