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My brilliant buddy Carolyn googled up this answer to the question "What's up with watercolors changing color when they dry?".
Thanks, Carolyn! This is really informative. Shocking (imh) how much some of those paints change as they dry!
I may have to rethink my interest in getting involved with this medium.
The lightness/darkness thing is bad enough, but for the hue to shift?
No.
Humph!
How rude, is all I have to say.
This may be a deal breaker, between me and watercolors!!!
I don't want to be mixing the color I imagine the paint is going to dry to, I want to mix the color I see!
Sheesh.
I am puzzled -- I've read a lot of blog posts by people who use watercolors all the time, and I've never heard this mentioned. Ever.
Maybe it's one of those things that watercolor people just know and take for granted, so don't mention?
Hmmmmmmm.
It's good to have my observation confirmed, but disappointing to learn that even the good watercolor paints do this..........
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Showing posts with label watercolor. Show all posts
Friday, October 28, 2011
October 18, watercolor
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At lunchtime I went to the art-supply store to get some watercolor paper. It's really expensive, as paper goes....
I bought one pad of paper with a name I recognized (or perhaps a knockoff with a similar name to a Real Watercolor Paper name...). I bought another little pad of paper that was lighter weight, and quite cheap.
This is the cheap one. I hate it. Gray -- who knew, you had to check for that! Too much texture. It soaks up the paint as much as the cardstock I used the previous two days. Nasty.
This is the result when wet. The colors are lighter and different, now that it's dry, just like the cardstock.....
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At lunchtime I went to the art-supply store to get some watercolor paper. It's really expensive, as paper goes....
I bought one pad of paper with a name I recognized (or perhaps a knockoff with a similar name to a Real Watercolor Paper name...). I bought another little pad of paper that was lighter weight, and quite cheap.
This is the cheap one. I hate it. Gray -- who knew, you had to check for that! Too much texture. It soaks up the paint as much as the cardstock I used the previous two days. Nasty.
This is the result when wet. The colors are lighter and different, now that it's dry, just like the cardstock.....
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Thursday, October 27, 2011
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
October 16, watercolor
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Looking at all the leaves, I've been wanting to play with color and watercolor.
On the 16th, one of my old friends and I made a pact to be a mutual kick-in-the-pants society, and start playing with art materials.
I really don't want to acquire more art supplies, unless I am really going to use them.
Beginning with cheap kiddy watercolor. I thought I had some good watercolor paper, but couldn't find it. This is something very like cardstock.
The paper buckled and soaked up all the water, so I couldn't do things like drop paint in a wet field.
I liked the squares of pretty colors, but hated the squares with mixed colors.....
So I decided to do the part I liked, and just see if I could mix with paint the colors I saw in the leaf.
Happy with this.
The next day, when it was dry. Not happy with these colors -- way too pale and washed out. And -- the colors look different. As though the color changed as it dried. I am thinking this has to be a function of the cheap paint and/or paper. I have never heard anyone who worked in watercolor breathe a hint that the colors *change* as they dry..... (How on earth could you paint with colors that are different when they are dry???)
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Looking at all the leaves, I've been wanting to play with color and watercolor.
On the 16th, one of my old friends and I made a pact to be a mutual kick-in-the-pants society, and start playing with art materials.
I really don't want to acquire more art supplies, unless I am really going to use them.
Beginning with cheap kiddy watercolor. I thought I had some good watercolor paper, but couldn't find it. This is something very like cardstock.
The paper buckled and soaked up all the water, so I couldn't do things like drop paint in a wet field.
I liked the squares of pretty colors, but hated the squares with mixed colors.....
So I decided to do the part I liked, and just see if I could mix with paint the colors I saw in the leaf.
Happy with this.
The next day, when it was dry. Not happy with these colors -- way too pale and washed out. And -- the colors look different. As though the color changed as it dried. I am thinking this has to be a function of the cheap paint and/or paper. I have never heard anyone who worked in watercolor breathe a hint that the colors *change* as they dry..... (How on earth could you paint with colors that are different when they are dry???)
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