Yes, you heard that right! You can mix yellow and blue watercolour and NOT get green! "How Ramya? " After all my yakking about the colour wheel, this must come as quite a surprise, right? How on earth can blue and yellow NOT make green? Well, the...
So, in the last post I delved into how we can expand the idea of the three-colour CMY primaries to produce a functional watercolour palette. This is the basis of my suggested Beginner's watercolour palette. You can read the last 5 posts here: Primary Colours? Colour Vocabulary...
Here is the big reveal of my home DIY test for Camel Artists' Watercolours' lightfastness. Camel lists their colours in 3 ranges of permanence. They don't use the word 'lightfast' anywhere in their product information. According to the website: These shades are classified in three groups according to...
This is the fifth part of this series discussing colours, the CMY colour wheel, revisiting the idea of primaries and concluding about what would be the right hues to begin watercolour painting with. Previous posts are here. Primary Colours? Colour Vocabulary - Hue, Value and...
Here is another often used term you may come across in Colour theory posts - 'Colour Temperature' or 'Warm' and 'Cool' colours. You can read the previous post on common colour related terminology here! What is colour temperature? Temperature refers to the warmth or coolness of a colour....
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As I wrote another post delving further into the exploration of the CMY colour primaries, I realised there are a bunch of terms I tend to use, which may be unfamiliar to some of you. Let's take these commonly heard words from the colour vocabulary:...
I have long been obsessed with watercolours, but have never found my own attempts at it satisfactory. My colours always sucked. Much before Instagram sharing and social media blew up, I was ogling watercolours done by friends at college, and the few painters whose blogs and...