Friday, September 2, 2011

Something Smaller


This watercolor rose is only 7"x10".  I finished it more quickly than the others, but still it took me a couple days (off and on). I started buying more powdered pigments. With these I can make both watercolor paint and tempera paint. The leaves here were painted with my homemade viridian watercolor. Viridian is a pigment similar in hue to phthalo green, but it is non-staining and granular and, I think, richer looking. Other colors in the leaves are ultramarine blue, manganese violet, and azo orange.  The paper used is Langton Prestige cold press. It was completed in August, 2011.

2 comments:

  1. Hi! Josh (diamondsutra from wetcanvas) here! Great paintings .. really beautiful. I have both viridian and phthalo green. I like the smooth washes of phthalo green a lot. Do you find that it is hard to re-wet viridian? I have a hard time getting pigment off the dried pans ..

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  2. Hi Josh! Thanks for visiting and commenting! I haven't had a problem re-wetting my homemade viridian. When I first made the viridian paint it cracked when it dried, which I've heard is common with viridian. So I wet it and added more glycerin and a tad more gum arabic, and it's been fine. It does flow quite differently from the smooth washes of phthalo though. It tends to have more of a sculptural quality, the way you can sweep it into thick and thin areas with a brush and have it stay that way.

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