blonde hair

Hi Joris. There actually are several sites out there with demos re painting hair of all colours .

Krapplack - several variant spellings - is either Alizarin Crimson or Rose Madder Genuine, and likely to be too strong for the depths in hair; if used with Ultramarine, it will give a very strong purple - probably too purple, although I have seen it employed for this purpose, and it's never looked quite right to my probably over-literal mind. If you like it, though, try mixing it quite dilute, with a little Cerulean Blue rather than Ultramarine. Rather than go for these very strong reds and yellows, I would suggest you try Raw Sienna as the base colour, or perhaps Yellow Ochre - start with a weak wash, and build into it; your darks might be better expressed by using Ultramarine plus Burnt Sienna, even adding a very small touch of Viridian to the mix. Obviously, practise on a spare bit of paper first. The usual mistake when painting fair or blond hair is to overdo the colour, then ending up with a head that looks as though a tin of paint was upended over it. As I remember, the Talens brand offers a quite clean, light Raw Sienna: you can strengthen it with other yellows, or add stronger highlights into the wash, but if you start with a very bright colour you then have to resort to equally strong darks: and if you need a bright highlight you have nowhere to turn: you've already used your brightest hues. Try YouTube for watercolour painting demonstrations - there are plenty of them, and you get to the point at which you can distinguish the good from the useless quite quickly. http://www.isleofwightlandscapes.net http://www.wightpaint.blogspot.co.uk