06/22/09

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Tips, Hints  and Techniques

Paints

Artists should to be sure that their colours are permanent. Fortunately, the 20th century has seen enormous improvements in the light fastness of colours.

Most well known paint manufactures rate their colours for Permanence and give them ratings.

Ratings are on the product labels and colour charts.

For information on the origin, composition & permanence of pigments, look out for the booklets containing this information.

That reputable paint manufactures supply

Transparency

Water colour is a transparent technique because all the colours are applied so thinly. However, the inherent differences in pigments do still show in painting. Cadmiums for example, are still relatively opaque even in water colour. Opaque colours tend to give flatter washes and will cover the underpainting more. Test your colours to find the most transparent and the most opaque colours

Using Gouache

Gouache is opaque water colour and can be used with watercolour where body colour' is required.

When used on its own, striking effects can be achieved by working on

coloured backgrounds.

         Using White

The white paper should provide the bright sparkle

of watercolour and can be reserved for

the most intense highlights.

This does not prohibit the use of white.

Chinese white is excellent for toning or reducing

saturation of colour mixtures and for transparent highlights.

Titanium White a more opaque white with greater

covering power, is ideal for rescuing small areas,

or achieving bright whites on tinted paper.