Aug 10, 2014 · Hi all, I'm wondering what paper you use or recommend for doing some pen and ink with watercolour. Do you use hot-press watercolour paper only? Much thanks!

Apr 24, 2018 · Hi everyone, I've been playing with salt in watercolour as an experiment because I've seen the results of other watercolourists using salt and love some of the […]

Jun 7, 2012 · Colourwheel, you don’t say how you mixed the two paints–on the palette or on the paper, which makes a difference. Palette mixing tends to make a rather homogeneous and uniform mix, …

Apr 4, 2023 · I offer for sale my three paintboxes. Beautiful as they are I cannot find an excuse to keep them in my drawer anymore. I switched to another […]

Aug 12, 2016 · Hi all, I am relatively new to watercolour and I have noticed that sometimes when I paint, I end up with a hard outline around something I've […]

Jan 5, 2013 · "The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable." (Robert Henri) January 5, 2013 at 12:03 pm #1177674 kate252 Default like any other paper there …

Nov 13, 2012 · The oil of oil paints creates a film when it oxidates while watercolour paints will just dry from the surface inwards in contact with air when its water evaporates.

Nov 30, 2014 · The key is to start with watercolour paints that won’t fade on you. This is a popular topic on this site. You can do your own lightfastness test by painting a swatch of each colour on a piece of …

Oct 20, 2009 · Watercolour paints have been available for a very long time, and little has changed in their manufacture over the years… Originally, they were set up as hard and brittle cakes of colour.

Apr 14, 2011 · Adding white to watercolour will probably look different because of the binder being slightly different and the lack of chalk in the watercolour (assuming it’s artist’s grade). You’d be …