Stop Paint from Beading Up on a Plastic Palette
A simple and nondestructive way to stop paint from beading up on a plastic watercolor palette.
A simple and nondestructive way to stop paint from beading up on a plastic watercolor palette.
A lot of people have asked me to talk about what brands of paint I use (most of them!) and what colors I have on my palette (way too many!). I’m always at a loss, because I am constantly playing around with the colors on my palette. I’m just as much of a sucker for a cool new color as the next person. Isn’t that just part of the fun of watercolor? 😉 But it’s time to take a stab at answering the REAL question, How can you decide which colors to have on your palette?”
When the Big Pile of Nope in your studio gets too big and discouraging, it’s time to go mining!
I’m welcoming some new watercolor painters to the medium, so there have been some requests for information about caring for watercolor brushes. (Even if you know all this, you might want to skip down to item 9. In the third paragraph, there are two links to videos about how brushes are made. The first is…
Three methods for transferring a drawing to watercolor paper: using self-made graphite transfer, graphite transfer paper and clear acetate.
A clean and easy way to get all the paint out of a watercolor tube (without cutting it open!).
An easy way to scale up or down and get a rectangle with the same proportions. No calculating, just a straightedge.
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