Watercolor swatch ideas

Well, one week wasn’t enough to get my palette in order. I thought about titling this post something different like “Staying sane while charting your watercolor choices” or “…

Watercoloring With Pastel Dreams – Art Philosophy®

I’m excited to finally be sharing this blog post all about my watercolor swatch cards. This post will walk you through you how I make them, what they tell me about the paints, and how I organize them for storing and easy reference. At this point my swatch card collection contains 80 cards even thou

Painting swatches is an excellent way to compare and get to know the characteristics of your paint. I wanted to learn how to make watercolor swatches in a way that would be a useful reference guide when I’m painting. I’ve seen lots of examples of these, but they all seem to be slightly different. I

Watercolor Palettes are what I would consider the top three essentials for watercolor supplies. But what watercolor palette is best for you? And how do you go about choosing one?

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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...

Mixed Media, Art Journaling and Online Classes

Welcome to this month's Traveler's Journal feature! Today it's all about organization and using your Traveler's Journals to help you do that. I did some browsing on the internet and found some great inspiration: {fabric swatch book - source unknown} This fabric swatch book is quite old and hol