What’s wrong with the following? From eHow.com on selecting watercolor paints here.
“Tips & Warnings
- It isn’t necessary to buy orange or green paint. These colors can be mixed using the colors listed above.
- Watercolor paints are available in pans, but they’re of a lower quality than tube paints and don’t produce the latter’s vibrant colors.
- Start with a few colors and mix others instead of purchasing a large number of ready-made colors.
- Try mixing colors directly on your painting as well as in a plastic palette.
- Purchase additional colors a few at a time. Good additions include cobalt blue, thalo green, lampblack, burnt umber, light red, yellow ocher and raw sienna.”
Maybe this should be a quiz.
I’ve discussed most of the points already. The only tip I haven’t discussed is mixing on the paper (of course, do so) and plastic palettes (which I dislike because they stain and, therefore, put the colors you are mixing into a possibly confusing context. For example, if you’ve used Thalo green and it’s stained the palette and then you try to mix a red over it, you are going to get a heightened sense of that red. I much prefer enameled metal palettes or porcelain which can be complete cleaned. )
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