Hello everybody! I am thinking of buying a small watercolor sketch set for a trip i'm taking. The two i'm choosing from are cotman and koi pocket […]
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I don’t claim to be an expert watercolor painter at all, I’m a beginner, but I am feeling like I might establish a “home base” at one particular convenience green (as is suggested in some reliable green-mixing tutorials anyway). I don’t want to commit myself to a bad home-base choice, however. First, should I or shouldn’t I?
I couldn’t find any watercolor with name Royal Blue. But I can safely assume that there is no such single-pigment paint known by other more popular name anyways. There are some oil paints with the exact name all of which are mixtures of white plus blue (either ultramarine, or cobalt blue, or cerulean).
I did buy some of the new Stonehenge watercolor paper to see if it works well with CP. I found it won’t take much erasing or lifting at all, the fibers start to pill easily, so I don’t recommend it for CP work. I haven’t tried it for watercolor CP. Thanks for posting this info – extremely helpful.
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Lots of the watercolorists here seem to use Indigo for rich darks and mixing greens, not as many use Sepia though. You can do a search on those terms by clicking on the Search This Thread line in the blue bar above. Limit your search to the Watercolor Forum and you’ll find lots of threads. Sylvia