I put all my new paint onto swatch cards so I can compare colors between brands. Swatch cards also allow you to compare your stash with other colors you’re jonesing to purchase! These swatches help you to stop duplication of colors. Who wants to waste money buying paint you won’t be using for a year?…
My Palette
Why You Need Pigment Information!
Pigment information about watercolors help make the artist better at their job. Your job is to bring your vision to life on paper. When you learn all about your paints, you’ll paint better. You’ll also SAVE MONEY. We all want to save money, right? We all want to be good artists, right? Ya. We agree….
How I Use Specific Watercolors
I use some watercolors in very specific ways. They aren’t just in my palette because they help me paint a subject in certain colors. These colors are workhorses in my palette. Let me explain. I go through Pure Yellow, Brilliant Opera Rose, Neutral Tint and Payne’s Blue Grey faster than any other watercolors in my…
Plein Air Painting With Hahnemühle Postcards
Many of you take your watercolors out into the field. By field I mean coffee shops, parks, and other fun places to go and paint. The activity is called Plein Air painting. It makes for such a fun little adventure to go somewhere else other than the four walls of your studio and throw paint…
Adding Extra Colors To Your Custom Schmincke Palette
Extra Colors Suggestions I don’t know if you’ve heard but Wet Paint has a New custom Schmincke palette that is on Pre-Order now. I have talked all about what’s in the palette and what you get HERE but I thought I’d talk about extra colors you may want to add to that palette. The tin…
Introducing: 2018 Custom Schmincke Palette By Wet Paint
Please make sure you read to the bottom of this post for a HUGE SURPRISE and a Giveaway!! Wet Paint Art store has put out a custom Schmincke Palette every year or so since 2011. I purchased my first professional palette from them in 2013 and have been enthusiastic about every iteration that has come out…
Playing with my “Juicy” Trio
I’m working with my Da Vinci “Juicy” Trio again today, using both Hahnemühle Quattro Skizzie paper and my Leda Sketchbook. I wanted to show that you don’t have to work like I do, this paint works in many ways and on many kinds of paper. This first piece is done on Hahnemühle’s Quattro Skizzie Sketch paper….
Introducing Da Vinci Watercolor Trios!
What happens when you give three artists nine new tubes of paint, tell them to choose three and get creative? Well, you get a very cool project. Charlie O’Shields, World Watercolor Month and Doodlewash.com creator, paired up with Da Vinci (website) to do a unique project called “3 Colors, 3 Artists”. Charlie asked me and…
Da Vinci 8ml Tubes Coming Soon
I have some cool news for those of you interested in Da Vinci’s Spectacular watercolor paint. They are coming out with NEW 8ml tubes soon and I’ll be talking about them in the near future. This is really great news for those of you who want to try out their paints. It allows you to…
How To Make A DIY Palette
The other day I wrote a couple of posts. One heralding how great Hahnemuhle Watercolor Postcards are (review here) and another Giving a tin of postcards away. I wanted to do a new post showing the savvy artist how to make their own palette using that gorgeous tin of Hahnemuhle Postcards. The tin measures 6.5″…