Vibrant
watercolour
How can you make watercolour sketches and paintings
more vibrant? Careful colour mixing is one way and, of course, this goes for all
types of painting. If you mix more than 2 colours together then there's
a chance that your colours will become duller or even muddy looking.
This can be made worse if you are using student quality paint which has
less pigment and more filler.
Transparency
I've recently been checking the transparency of each colour I use. (I have a
mixture of Schmincke and Winsor and Newton artist quality
watercolours.) Currently, I'm experimenting, particularly with flower
sketches, using all transparent colours and, not surprisingly, there's
quite a difference in vibrancy. There are a number of reds, blues,
yellows etc to choose between and I've removed the opaque ones and put
them to one side for now.
You can check paint transparency before
you buy a half pan or tube by checking the maker's info. A small square
symbol that is completely black indicates that the paint is totally opaque.
Totally clear means it's transparent, an so on...
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