Post Archive

  • The “Color First” Method of Building a Watercolor Palette

  • Lessons from “Making Color Sing”: Octanic Color

  • The Autumn Palette

  • What’s the difference between Deep Scarlet and Quinacridone Burnt Scarlet?

  • The Grow Untamed Palette

  • Mix a Range of Browns with Just One Earth Tone

  • Lessons from “Making Color Sing”: Mouse Power

  • The Neon Palette

  • Lightfastness tests for Mission Gold - Opera Pink

    DIY Watercolor Lightfastness Tests

  • What’s in my palette? (Summer 2022)

  • Dark Magenta Part II: Carbazole Violet, Perylene Violet, and Bordeaux

  • Nature Notebook: Shrubs of the Northeast

  • Finding a Dark Magenta: Comparing Quin Fuchsia, Quin Violet, and Bordeaux

  • Palette Updates After Taking Liz Steel’s Watercolor Class

  • What’s the difference between Goethite Brown Oxide (PY43) and Monte Amiata Natural Sienna (PBr7)?

  • Five Situations That Activate My Perfectionism… And Five That Don’t

  • All of Handprint’s Top 40 Pigments

  • Getting from PBGS to PBRS

    What’s the difference between Phthalo Blue (Green Shade) and Phthalo Blue (Red Shade)?

  • What’s the difference between Quinacridone Rose (PV19) and Quinacridone Magenta (PR122)?

  • Painting of a small sea turtle underwater.

    Loved & Learned from Kolbie Blume’s 10-Day Seascapes Challenge