Another challenging exercise. This time working on day 4 of the popular book Everyday Watercolor. This seemed to take way longer than expected by the author. It took time to pick out the 6 colours. I like the set I picked well enough but don't love them.
The exercise challenge is to balance warm and cool colors, stay within lines and practice painting right next to previous washes of paint. This seems to work on water control and gauging drying time.
I also got a bit of practice fixing mistakes. I had a couple of large blooms I wanted to fix and one or two drops that got outside of lines.
I was very happy with the Winsor and Newton Cotman #6 brush this time. The springy tip did a great job cleaning up tiny edges. Previously I had issues with this brush dumping little bits of water and the tip "squaring off" sort of but not this time. Maybe it was the amount of paint I was using?
Learning:
- Choosing and using a larger palette (6+ colors)
- Water control
- Fixing mistakes by picking up paint
- Smoothing out blooms with a slightly damp brush
- Cleaning edges with the very tip of the round brush
New to me:
- Mixing orange with these Cotman paints
- Using Indian Red as a neutral. Used here to tone down Cadmium yellow and Alizarin Crimson
Materials:
- W & N Cotman watercolor
- Strathmore 400 Cold press 140 lb.
- Princeton Neptune #8 round
- W & N Cotman #6 round
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