Schmincke, Canson, Princeton!
Hi all!
Unfortunately I was a bit hard-pressed for time in delivering this tutorial because I am under the pump with my final semester at University, so I will hopefully deliver another tutorial on drawing proportions very soon. However, in the meanwhile, I thought I could share with you some of the paintings and sketches I have created using Canson papers and Schmincke Horadam Aquarell Watercolour Paints.
I bought these gorgeous paints a while back and have fallen in love with watercolour all over again. I bought a set of 24 1/2 pans and have had so much fun with them.
The Schmincke watercolours have such a strong pigment and make painting and using the paints so much easier. You know those paints that you've had in the past where you have laden your brush with paint, only to find within a few strokes it's practically all gone? This is the exception, I remember when I first tried them and I touched my wet brush ever so lightly onto the paint and then used it and the colour was amazing! It also lasted so long and this works out in your favor, for not only does it save time and makes working more efficient, but you end up using much less paint because you don't need so much onto your brush.
Tip: Wet the paint brush, rather than wetting the pan, this way you can keep your paints much cleaner.
Here are some examples of the more involved paintings I've done using these paints:
Truth
Life
Way
Tip: When building up a painting like this in layers, start with a wash that covers your whole background, so you aren't left with noticeable white spaces.
The Glass Slipper
Tip: I built this painting up from the lightest colours to the darkest.
A Psychedelic Forrest
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This is mainly what I use in conjunction with the Schmincke Paints:
Canson Watercolour Paper: This one is a Medium, 185 gsm. I use both the A3 and A4 sizes. I have been using this paper since I started painting when I was 14, I used to save up my pocket money for buying pads of paper!
Princeton brushes, I have a number of sets that I've used which work really well and are affordable too!
Now here is a bit more about the paints:
You receive this super cute colour testing page where you can use your colours and then refer back to it when selecting colours.
The box mine came in, I nursed it preciously home.
Inside the box!
This is what my paints look like now after the dozens of paintings I've used them for!
It appears I am fond of the green colour.
Tip: If you want to keep reusing the same colour mix that you've created, mix the colours on either a plastic or metal surface (like this one) so it doesn't dry so quickly and can very easily be re-hydrated. If you use paper, it just absorbs the paint and dries out super easily. Especially with the pan sets opposed to the tubes of paint.
Some more sketches:
This really shows off the vibrancy of the paints.
You can see a bit of the bleed effect in the tulips where I overlapped the red onto the yellow.
This really shows off the nature of the paint. I just wet a part of the paper and transferred paint into the patch and then nudged it with the brush.
Using a slightly dry-brush technique to achieve this textures.
Tip: Using a brush with a flat/square tip can give you these beautiful marks shown above. Simply wet the brush but then only touch the very tip with the paint and drag it in short succession.
This was actually the very first thing I painted with the watercolours as a test, was a lot of fun!
Mixing the paint with other mediums.
I hope you have learned a little and hopefully been inspired!
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Natalie Wyatt
FABulous!!!!!!!
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