I am intrigued by a post at www.lopuck.com because of its implications for making pigments as well as exhibiting watercolor paintings. Here it is : “Glass-free Solution “A technique you can use to get away from glass is to borrow from the Acrylic artist’s toolkit and use two products to coat your final work: [...]
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Making your own watercolors –part five — new developments
Posted in making your own paint, tagged making your own paint on December 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Making your own watercolors–Part Four -work cut out for me
Posted in making your own paint, tagged making your own paint on November 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Like many watercolor artists I squeeze tube paints into my palette using, in my case, full pans, and they stay there a rather long time because its surprising how little pigment is actually used in a watercolor. I also began making my own watercolor pigments (see parts one through three) so some of the pans [...]
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 [...]
