In the Magic Paint Tubes Paintable Project, you are provided with an assortment of drawings of paint tubes. Instructions will lead you through printing them onto watercolor paper. There is an information packet that will guide you step-by-step through painting in the value tones of your tubes. The project leaves you with sheets of nicely painted tubes - and YOU get to take it the rest of the way from there!
I decided to call the painting idea I started with: Pixie Dust Paint. I wanted to depict the colors in my palette as being enchanted and celebrate the pure potential they represent before they are brushed onto paper.
The Sunshine & Shadow Set contains forbidden colors - all colors that in one way or another have been banned from watercolor palettes. (See my previous post on why watercolor and the color White belong together after all.) But this set was not created to fly in the face of tradition. It was designed around the concepts of Light and Value...
Watercolor Characteristics is a subject that could be the love-child of Psychology and Geology. A perfect blend of the sciences of the mind and the Earth. Each color is not only a tool for your creative expression, but also possesses a history, chemistry, personality, and set of tendencies all its own.
One of the most useful things that you can do as an artist is get to know your the colors in your palette...
