For Christmas I was given a box of Japanese watercolours that I had asked for - I'd seen them on the internet and was taken by the selection of bright colours and also the fact that there were metallic colours as well. This is the first painting done using these paints - I chose a macaw in order to get to use pretty much all the colours available! These paints were like a cross between gouache and watercolour, a bit chalky and not quite as bright as I had anticipated. Great fun to use though as the colours stayed quite true and there didn't seem to be any muddiness when painting one colour over with another.
I didn't use the metallics on this painting, but have tried them out and was quite impressed with the effects obtainable although I;m not sure when I will use them!
Next up - paid work!
1 comment:
Fabulous! Always helpful to expand the range of materials at your disposal, these are very successful. You need to do some paintings of cars perhaps ... mine is metallic silver! ;-)
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