tree trunk

Lets asume that we all know that most trees dont have brown trunks. Alwyn Crawshaw paints wonderful trees using a mix of ultramarine,alizaron crimson,hookers green no. 1 and yellow ochre. This produces a general colour of a greenish grey varying from a da

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Watercolour sketching - adding white details

I do a lot of sketch-book work - drawing with pen then adding washes and colour details.
One perennial challenge is to do white window-frames around a dark window, particularly with white cross and vertical bars over the window..  
I've

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Gouache

Hi! I hope this is the correct place to post this question.. I was not sure if I should have posted here or in the "other meda" forum.
recently I switched from oil color to gouache, beacuse suddently I developed an alergy (hope this is the right way t

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DISCOVERING WATERCOLOUR

With spring around the corner I'm getting organised to do more painting outdoors. Trevor Chamberlain immediatelycomes to mind because he is an enthusiastic 'plein air' painter. It's interesting that his '

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Waxing Watercolours

I learned something new yesterday.  Audrey Hyndes had posted a painting in the gallery and said how she had waxed it.  Now I had never heard of this so asked her how it's done and she pointed me towards an artist on youtube called Angela Fehr.&n

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Waterproof retractable pen for ink washes

I recently bought a Pilot G-2 pen for drawing prior to using watercolour washes.
Despite being advertised as archival there is no way the ink in this pen is waterproof it bleeds horribly.
 Can someone recommend a pen which has waterproof ink

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Granulation medium.

Does anyone know what can be used to make my own granulation medium? I find the small bottles by people like Windsor and Newton rather expensive and wondered if it was possible to make a cheaper alternative.

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