Aug 26, 2010 · I’d like to do a painting (on watercolour paper, or illustration board) that uses acrylic paint very sparingly for certain flat/opaque/dark valued areas; and the rest of the areas …

Jun 18, 2016 · I avoid stretching watercolor paper sheets before I start my watercolor compositions by painting wet-on-dry or by using watercolor blocks. I do experience minimal …

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Jul 16, 2008 · This painting was done with watercolour & Acrylics mixed! Physically mixed together or used in sequence Kathleen? It turned our wonderful, but I have never figured out …

Jul 29, 2013 · Watercolour paper comes, usually, in three types of surface….rough, NOT (or CP, cold pressed …NOT means, literally, not hot pressed, and Hot pressed. Here is an official …

Sep 16, 2017 · Now in order to make an absorbent ground you must find an ingredient that will absorb water ( and so watercolour) instead of repelling it. And that probably isn’t gypsum or …

Feb 20, 2000 · I have a stack of MDF boards I would like to use for watercolors ,can anyone advise me if I can use them by coating with gesso […]

Sep 25, 2018 · Both gouache and watercolour have as binder Gum Arabic. The difference is that gouache contains chalk that makes it opaque while watercolour doesn’t. You can mix gouache …

Jun 6, 2004 · Watercolour is usually framed behind glass or plexi glass , but with the new canvas for watercolour, a spray fixative might be used but these are new enough that I haven’t heard …

Jul 8, 2019 · Winsor & Newton support very graciously answered a burning question for me. The W&N website states that the half pan watercolor cakes are compressed using thousands of […]