Watercolor mixing

You’ve seen them... Right ? Those beautiful looking watercolor charts with a rainbow of fantastic colors. It’s only natural that you want to make one yourself. That’s exactly how I felt when I began my adventure into watercolors. So I looked for a simple tutorial about how to make my own watercolor mixing chart. But

I've rounded up my current favorite color mixtures using Winsor & Newton Cotman watercolors and drafted a guide on how to recreate these colors.

Well, one week wasn’t enough to get my palette in order. I thought about titling this post something different like “Staying sane while charting your watercolor choices” or “…

A limited palette of watercolors does not have to be limiting! Yes… I’m kind of pleased with myself for that sentence! But it’s true. You’ll be happy to know you don’t need that luxury box set of 80 colors to get fabulous mixing results with watercolors. However, it does take a little bit of care

Are you getting some ideas that will help your own creative work? I hope this list of warm and cool watercolors truly sparks your creativity. Click to view

Watercolor mixing charts! Learn the importance of one, how to read one and how to make one to make color mixing a breeze!

I assume you've chosen the type of pigments you wish to work with. Begin with pure primary pigments as these are the basis for all other colors. Store your primary powder samples in these 10 gram jars. TKB Trading sells them for $5.50/10. You'll need 20 of these. Label each jar according to pigment name and CI number. Store individual powder mixes in these clamshells. TKB Trading sells them for $15.00/100 and 100 labels for $2.40. I chose the yellow one, what they call a "lemon pie" that…

Watercolor Palettes are what I would consider the top three essentials for watercolor supplies. But what watercolor palette is best for you? And how do you go about choosing one?

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I know we can find examples of these color charts as visual images all over the internet but without some sort of explanation to accompany them, I found it pretty confusing! In fact, when I began studying them, what I thought was a basic color chart turned out not to be so basic after all. Now that