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Mystery Technique #146

January 20, 2025 – 7:39 pm

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ANSWER TO MYSTERY TECHNIQUE #145:

First I loaded one brush with French Ultramarine and another with Cerulean Blue, then wet the paper and quickly mixed the 2 blues wet-in-wet while carefully leaving white paper for the cloud shapes. Before the paint dried, I lifted out some wispy edges with a damp sponge. After this layer was completely dry, I gently rewet the paper and added a delicate wash of Permanent Rose to the cloud and the top of the sky, using a damp sponge to soften edges, make transitions and remove excess paint.

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Mystery Technique

Mystery Technique #129

August 20, 2023 – 9:25 pm

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ANSWER TO MYSTERY TECHNIQUE #128:

You can get luminous watercolor mixtures by glazing! First I drew 3 lemons and painted them all with a graded wash of the same intense yellow, adding a little yellow-orange to the one on the bottom. After this layer dried, I created a shadow color for the lemon on the right by mixing Permanent Rose and Cobalt Blue. To avoid disturbing the yellow layer, I used a soft brush to gently rewet the lemon before adding the blue-violet shadow. I repeated the steps for the lemon on the bottom, substituting a mixture of Cobalt Blue and Viridian for the shadow.

Mixing colors with transparent glazes can create dramatically different results from palette mixtures, as you can see here.

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