Swatched out every single one, which was interesting. #Watercolors are tough to capture with a small swatch of color as there are so many different factors involved. Obviously how much water you use - some are the most vibrant/saturated with minimal water, while others are - confusingly - more vibrant when you use more water. And the colors shift when they dry to get lighter or darker or sometimes they can look stunningly vibrant when you paint them out only to dry to a duller finish. My DaVinci paints are terrible for this but oh they're so pretty when you first paint them on!
Some are granulating which can give more interest/texture to a painting, but that can look defective in a swatch. Some, like QOR, have amazing flow in water - these ones didn’t look like anything special in the swatches but on the right paper are amazing.
So many things. I'm endlessly fascinated with #watercolor.
I've got an #artsupply question which is really hard to answer with information from web pages etc.: How do you prepare your nibs beyond getting rid of the conservant oil or similar coating?
Do you sand them? Adjust the angles with a whetstone?
What is your personal procedure to get from stock nib to favourite "your" nib?
Please boost for coverage. Looking fwd to your answers 🖤
Every once in a while, I get a visit from a hummingbird, it looks at me and laughs and then it leaves. 😞 I've tried all kinds of things, and nothing seems to keep them around. I think they're just migrating and passing through for a visit.
Now that I have been here a week or so, I thought I would provide a more detailed #introduction
I am Lauren - an academic lecturer by profession (#EnglishLit and #AcademicWriting). Owned by a Jack Russell named Tobie, I enjoy tea, books, painting, sketching and coloring.
Today's coloring page is from the #PeriodPanties coloring book. I wanted to see if mixing white #acrylic would let me apply opaque #watercolors. Had to slowly build up layers and then re-ink the lines. (We have already established I'm bad at inks.) But it worked, yay!