Watercolor sample chart

A limited palette of watercolors does not have to be limiting! Yes… I’m kind of pleased with myself for that sentence! But it’s true. You’ll be happy to know you don’t need that luxury box set of 80 colors to get fabulous mixing results with watercolors. However, it does take a little bit of care

Project Description: Students will create an "on the spot" abstract painting with the class as we go through the watercolor techniques. Think about your color wheel combinations and color mixing...

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Watercolor Palettes are what I would consider the top three essentials for watercolor supplies. But what watercolor palette is best for you? And how do you go about choosing one?

Watercolour sample page

So I've spent a few hours "learning" my first professional watercolor palette set. The set is a combination of M. Graham and SWC -- the SWC ShinHan Watercolor Professional, not to be confused with tubes that read just ShinHan Watercolor Professional. Yes, confusing! Pictures below to exemplify the difference. ShinHan, a popular Korean brand of watercolor (and other art materials). I realize that both SWC and PWC are now marketed by ShinHan with PWC short for Profession Water Color, but I've…

For the first week of my 52 week challenge I decided to go back to basics. I wasn’t really sure where to begin so I started by breaking in my new watercolor sketchbook with a sketch of some s…

Well, one week wasn’t enough to get my palette in order. I thought about titling this post something different like “Staying sane while charting your watercolor choices” or “…

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Learn to mix watercolors and use a watercolor mixing chart

Create watercolor swatches to help you to see exactly what your paints look like on paper, and size them to fit in your palette box so you can take them with you on the go!

Painting swatches is an excellent way to compare and get to know the characteristics of your paint. I wanted to learn how to make watercolor swatches in a way that would be a useful reference guide when I’m painting. I’ve seen lots of examples of these, but they all seem to be slightly different. I

Watercolor Mixing Chart

We are back in action with our third Virtual Creative Hour! So many people had questions about watercolor so I'm going to take it really slow by starting off with just techniques and some fun ways to experiment with the medium. Fun Fact: I started off painting with mostly watercolor! My husband's cousin and I started a stationery company on Etsy one year and sold hand painted cards. We even did a "Paper Exchange" and matched up companies to send care packages to each other. It was super…