Practically speaking, if you make your own watercolor paints, you will be making half pans or whole pans which will eventually have dried pigment in them that needs to be rehydrated before using. Perhaps, some people will think dry pans are inferior to tubes, but Homer (and Sargent) and quite a few other artists seem [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Homer used pans not tubes
Posted in Winslow Homer equipment/technique, tagged Homer's equipment on October 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Making your own watercolors – part three, the hard part
Posted in making your own paint, tagged making your own paint on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Well, you might ask, How much do I use of everything? Here is the “recipe” in Kremer Pigments catalog (page 45) for using Gillot’s Watercolor Medium: Recipe: Combine several drops of this medium and some distilled water with 1-3 tsp. of dry pigment. Add a few drops of ox gall for flow. Mull into a [...]
Making your own watercolors – part two (equipment)
Posted in making your own paint, tagged making your own paint on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The photo below shows my equipment for making watercolor paint. What you see on my porcelain butchers tray in the first row is (from left to right) a full pan that I made into a scoop, three palette knives, a baby dropper from the drug store for measuring Gillot’s medium. The scoop doesn’t work particularly well [...]
Making Your Own Watercolor Paints – part one (why do it?)
Posted in making your own paint, tagged making your own paint on October 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The motivation for making your own watercolor paints is mostly economic. Although one uses remarkably little pigment for a watercolor painting, the marketed watercolor paints are comparatively expensive whether in tubes or pans compared to the price of the raw pigment. If you wanted to paint very large, it would really pay to make [...]
absolutely smallest watercolor set
Posted in watercolor pochade boxes, tagged watercolor pochade boxes on October 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This set is composed of an empty Sucrets box into which I have inserted a small daily plastic pill box with the top off, both of which come from the local drug store. An Altoid box is an equally good container. Into the compartments I squeezed Winsor Newton tube paints. When the box is closed [...]
