Watercolour mixing chart

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

Color swatches created with the thirteen of the fourteen color palette in my Winsor & Newton Cotman Compact watercolor set. A great exercise for getting to know your colors and just some of the possibilities. This was created in a...

Can two colors make red? Every preschooler knows that Red, Blue, and Green are primary colors. And since Red is a primary color that means it can not be made from either Green or Blue. But surprise! Red can be made by mixing the other set of primary colors.

"How to mix greens?" is a common question asked by students. This article describes how I mix my greens and provides other color mixing advice.

Get the best from your watercolor paints by grabbing this free mixing guide! Download and print to have handy whenever you are stuck on the best ways to mix your paints.

So I've spent a few hours "learning" my first professional watercolor palette set. The set is a combination of M. Graham and SWC -- the SWC ShinHan Watercolor Professional, not to be confused with tubes that read just ShinHan Watercolor Professional. Yes, confusing! Pictures below to exemplify the difference. ShinHan, a popular Korean brand of watercolor (and other art materials). I realize that both SWC and PWC are now marketed by ShinHan with PWC short for Profession Water Color, but I've…

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If you’ve been reading since the beginning of this watercolor chart series, you may have noticed that each chart type is a little more involved than the last. Each one in the series takes more time to paint and also provides us more insight into our paints. These last charts are probably the trick

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

In this quick video, I'm sharing my #1 tip for painting watercolor color mixing charts.The tip is: Use masking tape to create your grid! I used to draw the g...