29 articles avec english

First of all I would like to wish you a beautiful and rich year 2023, full of artistic creativity and a boom in watercolour… Happy New Year to you all. May 2023 bring you plenty of inspiration, happiness and good health The last two years have been very...

Greens in Watercolor 2 - Mixing You have already seen that there aren’t as many green mono-pigmented watecolor paint used in different brands made by the manufactures of watercolor paint. In addition, its pigments are very unnatural. As a result, manufacturers...

Here we are, the last pigment of the secondary colors... green. Greens from blueish to yellowish and toned down This color is quite special ! I will dedicate 3 different articles to it as it’s quite complex because there aren’t many green pigments on...

Violet Mixes What I do propose to you to find in this article ... • Red and blue to get it • How do primary and secondary react with Violet pigments There are a dozen or so violet pigments that are regularly used to create watercolor paints called Purple,...

Watercolor painting with only 4 pigments and 2 violet ones by Désiré Herman Violet, also called purple, is one of the oldest colors made by humans from natural resources. A Murex mollusk extract was used to make this extract which after undergoing a lacquered...

As you can see in the article on orange pigments, there are not so many. What's more, the difference between a vermilion and an Indian yellow is not big and the true orange is rare because rather yellowish or reddish. Watercolor made with only 3 colors....

Switching from yellow to red Orange, this secondary color, which is the marriage between the joy of yellow and the passion of red. A color very difficult to define because it is positioned between the Indian yellow (or is it already an orange,) and the...

Roadmap… Or you decide the order of publications ... I was unable to provide new articles for my blog this summer, but now I've recovered enough to continue testing, researching, and commenting so I can write new articles. Given all this time that I remained...

Psychological back to school It's been a long time since I posted a news. Unfortunately, my private health does not allow me to paint, test and compose new articles for my blog. Meanwhile, managing the pain, I was able to push my research further by reading...

I know there a lot of readers waiting for my first post of this month. But I've had serious trouble as it seems that my Facebook has been hacked ... and while doing research, my iMac had severe issues with accounts. So I had to resolve all the hoaxes...

A fter reviewing the article about blue pigments, I hesitated to attack oranges. It's true, you still have to paint too. Then I came across a Youtube video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HaTV0Eb-j4&t=510s ) of Follow the White Rabbit, created and...

Blue Pigments After the first two primary colors, here is the last BLUE ... The other primaries have already been commented here are the direct links: • The yellows • The Reds To know the abbreviations used in the samples as well as my bibliography (in...