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Another Limited Palette Portrait
You can click on the image to see an enlargement and read the text. I’ve got the colors swatched: Saturn Red, a cool red which I think is Quin Pink (based on how it’s reading in the finished portrait), Indanthone blue (PB60) and Azure Cobalt blue (because I love the granulation), Green Gold, Burnt Sienna […]
Limited Palette From Leftover Paint
At the end of last year I was sketching in a 10 x 10 inch journal I had bound with Strathmore 500 Series Printing Paper. This paper isn’t sized for wet media like watercolor. It’s meant to be printed on. But it was sent to me in large sheets and I thought, “Why not bind […]
A Short Review of Tonic Watercolors from Federal Color
“Why do you do this to yourself Roz?” you may be wondering? Sometimes I wonder too why I feel so compelled to test watercolor brands. I love my Schmincke Pan watercolors and I love my Daniel Smith Tube watercolors. I hope they never change the formula or quality of those paints. But because change happens […]
Another Liner Brush Test with a Direct Brush Portrait
Here’s another direct brush painting I did with a liner brush. I used only the Princeton Select Liner P3750L-1 #1 to make this portrait. I found it difficult to write with it (though not as difficult as some of the others I’ve tested), but just in case I’ll transcribe my notes: Soft, good pigment load, […]
More Direct Brush Painting With the Liner Brush
This is about sketch 4 or 5 in my series of testing liner brushes. I like this dog sketch (and it’s already on my Instagram page so I thought I’d round out the week with it). I’m still using Schmincke’s Ocean Grey with a warm and a cool red. The difference here is that I’ve […]
One More Look at the Spatter-Dog Theme and a Little Bit about Waste
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Irodori Antique Watercolor from Holbein
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