Oct 24, 2007 · Watercolour paint is just pigment which is carried into the paper surface and once there it is lock into position. It can be disturbed by further wetting but running your finger over it won’t lift it …

Jun 24, 2025 · Join us for interesting and informative discussions of techniques, materials, and approaches to working with watercolors.

Sep 16, 2017 · Now in order to make an absorbent ground you must find an ingredient that will absorb water ( and so watercolour) instead of repelling it. And that probably isn’t gypsum or chalk. My friend …

Jun 18, 2016 · I avoid stretching watercolor paper sheets before I start my watercolor compositions by painting wet-on-dry or by using watercolor blocks. I do experience minimal buckling of the […]

Jul 29, 2013 · Watercolour paper comes, usually, in three types of surface….rough, NOT (or CP, cold pressed …NOT means, literally, not hot pressed, and Hot pressed. Here is an official quote: here are …

Jul 16, 2008 · This painting was done with watercolour & Acrylics mixed! Physically mixed together or used in sequence Kathleen? It turned our wonderful, but I have never figured out how to preserve it! …

Dec 1, 2025 · My quick attempt at the red currants. Watercolour and water soluble pen on mystery paper 4×6”, a scrap I had laying around. sanlynn December 5, 2025 at 8:01 am #1587417 CMorpaint Default

Feb 20, 2000 · I have a stack of MDF boards I would like to use for watercolors ,can anyone advise me if I can use them by coating with gesso […]

Jun 6, 2017 · My experience…. Daniel Smith on left, W&N on right: buff titanium -no pyrrole crimson- don’t know pth. blue rs — same undersea green — this is just pthalo and black, no W&N sub indian …

Sep 25, 2018 · Both gouache and watercolour have as binder Gum Arabic. The difference is that gouache contains chalk that makes it opaque while watercolour doesn’t. You can mix gouache with …