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How to Mix Skin Tones in Watercolour
Hi! I’m back on my blog with some new tutorials and reviews. Here I share with you a rather straight forward tutorial on how to mix skin tones in watercolours. The concept is quite simple. I’ve swatched light medium and dark skin colour mixes, that are useful when you are painting realistic portraits.
A modified Prang vintage metal box and my new colours
Let me present you here how I modified my vintage metal Prang watercolour box. This was a box that was gifted to me among other Prang boxes. The metal box was the most promising one and so I took the decision to change it a bit. This box’s dimensions are 21,5 x 5x 1 cm […]
Prang watercolour sets review and lightfastness test
Last September I received as a gift a variety of Prang watercolour sets, sent to me straight from US. Prang watercolour sets are ( as far as I know) very popular school watercolour paints. They are not available though at European market and the sets that are retailed from European online stores are ridiculously expensively […]
Experimenting with chalk resist (masking fluid alternative) UPDATED
According to this site: Chalk resist: Chalk resist is a thick paste made from powdered chalk mixed with water. This paste is brushed onto the desired areas of a sheet; once it is dry, the thick layer of chalk protects the underlying paper from wet watercolor washes. The chalk can be easily removed by counter-rolling […]
Review Neohart A4 Watercolour Sketchbook 220 gsm paper
I have reviewed till now various sketchbooks but I want to make an honourable review to my Neochart sketchbook.
Review: Strathmore 400 series watercolour 300gsm paper sketchbooks
Time for my next review.. This time I’ll give a review for Strathmore 400 series Watercolour 300 gsm paper sketchbooks hardbound. I recently bought two of them in two different sizes. A4 portrait and A5 landscape.
Fabriano Venezia Sketchbook Review
It is the time to give my review on Fabriano Venezia Sketchbook.
Kuretake Gansai Tambi 12 Watercolours Set Review
Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolours have become quite popular among watercolourists and crafters so I was very curious to check myself what is going on with these watercolour sets.
Strathmore 500 Series Mixed Media 190gsm Paper Review. Sketchbook and Roll
I recently purchased a Strathmore 500 series Mixed Media 190 gsm vellum surface sketchbook and roll and below you can read my review about this particular paper.