• nieceandtows@programming.devOP
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    1 year ago

    Thank you. I’m very glad you like the painting , but honestly it’s just me trying to paint something without exactly knowing how to. It’s a 200gsm water color paper, and literally the cheapest box of 15 watercolor cakes I could find. I used a brush pen that holds water (which might explain how dry the colors are). I like dry watercolor too, as it makes the colors pop more.

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      1 year ago

      Well that’s how you do it, check out stuff and find what you like.

      Started out roughly the same like 2-3 years ago :-)

      I also like to have the possibility to have “popping” colors and I found Pebeo water colors “encre aquarelle” (literally watercolor ink), you’d just need the 3 base ones (cyan, magenta, yellow) to make any colour except grey, so a grey is good too :-)

      And they sure pop!

      So what’s the white :-) ?

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        1 year ago

        That’s very interesting, just 3 colors and make any color from those. I’ll check them out, thanks. The white is from the same box. It actually ended up pretty transparent, which is why I couldn’t even show much foam. The opaque white parts you see are just the paper where there are no colors lol.

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          Hah yeah water color paper “eats up” the white color, I’m looking into more heavy color (IDK, different guaches maybe) to make better white.

          I love mixing colors, and if you don’t try for brown, (or a dirty look/feel) you just use two of them, so it’s quite easy too!

          Add water to make it lighter, let dry and paint on top (dry on dry) to make darker.