Watercolor Boards For outdoor painting it will not always be convenient to stretch lots of sheets of paper. For this it is advisable to buy boards with paper already fixed to them. You can get Whatman boards in the three grades, Fashion-plat...

Watercolor is made either in tubes or pans. In the tubes the color is very soft and pliable. In the pans it is a little harder and must be worked up with the brush to make a wash. Because of the addition of either sugar or honey or glycerine, the col...

Watercolor is a quick way of painting. I don't think it is necessary to go on building a watercolor into a complete, tonal painting. For that use opaque watercolor or oil. The charm of a transparent watercolor is its delicacy and simplicity....

Opaque watercolor is one of the oldest media known. The mixing of glue with the powdered color is known as distemper and most names like poster color, designers' colors, gouache, are really distemper. The addition of oil and egg yolk, casei...

I would suggest the same range of colors, red, pale yellow and two blues, umber with the addition of white, as I did for the transparent range. The mixtures will be the same. The difference will be in the constant changing of your water, the nee...

A simple study you may like to try is to draw, in outline, lightly with a soft lead pencil, the corner of the room or a few assorted objects that are on the table or sideboard. Then fill in with washes of the appropriate color. Let each wash dry tho...