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Color Mixing with Liquid Watercolor

This put up is extensive overdue! I know I have promised to movie my shade mixing with liquid watercolor for really some time. The truth is, mixing this medium is not as uncomplicated as mixing tempera paints. It is far from an precise science. Part of that cause is that liquid watercolors are very concentrated so not only does a little go a lengthy way, but they are all quite darkish and appear similar so it’s just more challenging to gauge the colour you are creating. Another purpose this has taken a when is that I never commonly blend a complete batch of new hues at the moment. I normally just fill in when wanted. But I ultimately shot the video clip and put it all with each other for you!

Color mixing with liquid watercolor paints and small jars.

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Sketching with Watercolor at the Medici Fountain in Paris

In Paris last thirty day period I did some sketching at one of my most loved places, the Medici Fountain in the Luxembourg Gardens.

The entire 10-minute online video sharing the process of making these two sketches is a free bonus program available to my atelier Users on the Courses page.

The statues on the fountain are by Auguste Ottin, and signify the huge cyclops Polyphemus, in bronze, getting the sea-nymph Acis with her human lover, Galatea, in white marble. In the Greek myth, jealous Polyphemus kills Acis, so Galatea transforms her lover into an immortal river spirit.

The fountain and grotto ended up intended for Marie de’ Medici’s Left Bank palace, established in the 1620’s. In 1811 the fountain was restored and moved to its present location, and the statues were extra at that time.

I very first discovered the fountain on my high faculty journey to France, in

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