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Latest watercolor landscape demonstration Watercolor landscape titled “From Mt Tamborine”, Queensland, Australia I have just posted my latest landscape demonstration. This watercolor (watercolour) painting is of the view from Mt Tamborine in Queensland, Australia. The demo teaches how to handle green in the landscape as well as creating a . . . → Read More: Watercolor Landscape Painting Demonstration of Moutain Valley Scene
Using Earth watercolors The earth watercolors are already a mix of the three primary colors, however each leans a little towards one primary or secondary color. For instance, Burnt Sienna has a strong orange leaning, Raw Umber has a slight greenish tinge, Raw Sienna is a yellowish brown with a slight greenish tinge, while Yellow . . . → Read More: Earth colors and color mixing Color mixing We can create a very simple formula from the above that will tell us whether we will end up with a dull or more pure color from the mixture of two pigments. If we mix French Ultramarine and Alizarin Crimson we get the following: French Ultramarine + Alizarin Crimson = (B + r) . . . → Read More: The watercolor color mixing formula All too often students find themselves wondering where a particular color has come from. They set out to create a bright green with a blue and yellow watercolors but they do not quite get the color mixture they were after. Instead of a bright green they end up with one which is quite dull. The . . . → Read More: Color mixing formula, how to mix bright versus dull watercolor colors What colors make up our pigments? Pigments are almost always made up of more than one primary color. For the purposes of this article please understand that all my color observations refer to Winsor & Newton artists quality paint. This is important as even though many manufacturers give their pigments the same name, they . . . → Read More: Watercolor Pigments | |||||
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