watercolour mixing

The reason why watercolour pans and tubes are so small is because the colours are very concentrated and watercolor paints are very diluted befor brushing them on the paper. I have done lots of paint charts for mixes but it is difficult to get the dilution

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Colour Charts...

I admit I find mixing colour charts painstaking, but necessary. Spent an hour mixing some new colours recently purchased to get the feel for them. I had to hand the May issue of Leisure Painter and found the article, mixing colours on paper. So decided to

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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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