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Using Gesso for Watercolour

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Art: Hints and Tips, Watercolour Painting
Using gesso with watercolour I came across an article that described the use of a gesso ground for use with watercolour. A gesso ground causes a few problems, but it also creates a number of opportunities, not found when working on more traditional surfaces. Gesso is an acrylic based ... Read More
2, March 2013Paul Priestley
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Mixing Skin Tones in Watercolour

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Art: Hints and Tips, Watercolour Painting
Skin Tones Painting convincing flesh tones is one of the challenges of portrait painting. Painting skin tones in watercolour can be even more challenging. But with all honesty painting skin tones in watercolour cannot be achieved by using tubes of flesh tint and portrait pink. Unlike working with acrylics, we ... Read More
17, October 2012Paul Priestley
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Creative Watercolour Painting

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Art: Hints and Tips, Watercolour Painting
Brilliant Watercolour Ideas I have recently come across the work of an artist called Michael Morgan. He is a great watercolour painter, whose landscape paintings could be mistaken for  oil or acrylic paintings such is their boldness.  This man is now in his 80’s and obviously has a wealth of ... Read More
8, April 2009Paul Priestley

Shadows and Masking Fluid

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Art: Hints and Tips, Watercolour Painting
Do you find the shadows you paint often look a bit dead, flat, too dark or have you been know to use BLACK!? If any of these points apply, I find a good solution is to use a mixture of Alizarin Crimson and Ultramarine. This mixture floated over any ... Read More
23, February 2009Paul Priestley