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what kind of watercolour palette do you like to use .?. like a flat well or deep well . the larger the better ... and why.. when using watercolours , do you use acrylic brushes as well as watercolour brushes .....for trees say.?
have you bought any special effect artists brushes like T Harrison,s ,,or others . promote.
cheers
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I like a deep welled palette. Also with small wells where I can squirt my watercolour from the tube BUT I like the sides of these to be perpendicular and not sloping as is often the case. I prefer this as I do go to a lot clubs to participate and demonstrate and with deep perpendicular sides I find there is less chance of any runny mixes spilling out as I transport the palette back to the car - I do end up with quite a lot of sloppy pans where the squirted paint sits - just the way I work - also even 'raw' paint from the tube can often be quite runny and can spill over - hope this all makes sense.
As for special brushes - no I haven't bought any and regard them all as a bit of a gimmick. The results always look to me to be anything but spontaneous. However I have 'pinched' an idea from a friend: I've bound a few hard bristles from a broom to the end of a stick and use this to create foreground tufts of grass etc - quite effective.
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we all have our own choice ,but to be honest I have been influenced by some of the past artists .and often look at their palettes as they paint
as you Michael I like a deep Palette because it suits my style ..I have bought palette over the years and never used them .sticking to an old one I got used to ,but its given up the ghost (rusting)
.I brought out my Craig young palette box last week ,today I thought why use this when I have an old holbien I can use ,,
so gave it a wash and popped it back in the draw ,,,I think I am nursing it ,,,but can't, understand why ...the holbien suffers from having wells on the lid ,but I am using it flat on the table so its ok ..
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I meant pans in the lid not wells .Alwyn Crawshaw used the winsor and newton heavy weight four well I noticed on one of his video.s
Its not a bad paint box .some of the cheap thin pressed tin ones can cut you,,, the edges are that sharp
I am using now the 500 .holbien I bought from Charles`Evans a while ago. .nice to read Syds comments
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I still haven't bought a new watercolour palette, but when I do it'll be a Liz Deakin as suggested by Syd: I've been painting in oil and acrylic lately, so the issue hasn't been pressing. As to brushes - Hakes, sables and squirrels - some given to me by a kindly gent up Wigan way, who'd be embarrassed if I named him - and I still use a Dalon 3/4" flat which was given to me some 20 years ago: a young man's late mother had used this brush for her watercolours, and he couldn't bring himself just to throw it out. I use it for watercolour and liquid acrylic, and it remains one of the most useful brushes in my collection.
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Hello Alan! I use a John Pike's palette, it enables me to prepare large washes of colour (My review of this palette can be found here). It isn't easily to transport but I mainly work in the studio. When outside, I use a watercolour box and I directly mix my colours on the paper. I use watercolour and acrylic brushes, depending on the textures that I want to create. I love Robert Simmons and Holbein brushes, real sable brushes (natural) and some synthetic fibers (acrylic brushes) to substract colours.
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hi Catherine .I have a Masterson sta wet acrylic palette .. it has a watercolour palette as the top .acrylic the bottom half ,,it keeps the paint wet for ages, I think the watercolours top part it is like the John Pike . yes I like a deep welled palette . but for my style of painting I like the 1000 holbien .
when I read that Edward Wesson would roll his brush over two colours in his flat palette 1000 and put two colours in his trees .I think mmm wow
be nice to be able to do the same as competent as him ,,he said mix the colour correct in your palette and put i on.. and leave it alone
because water colour hates to be messed around with ,all you get is mud ...I try,,, but it is so hard to stick to those rules.I have been trying for many years but I have not reached that goal
hugs
alan
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I have been using the "Palette-Box" made by Craig Young in Ludlow. It is made of solid brass so no rusting. The palette opens up & provides nice deep wells as well as
a removable tray. It will take tube-paint (16 colours) or I believe can be made to take whole-pans. There is a removable flap for what are called stiff-mixes. Not sure of
the current price but its not cheap. Made because the usual tin / enamelled boxes rust or flake in time - these dont. A long-term investment.
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I use the holbien but it would be better if it had deep rounded wells like Syds winsor and newton ,or the craig young,s .....getting the dirty colour out of the corners is irretating ,,,, with an old one, I actually filled the corners with bath filler and rounded them of with a wet finger ,,,,
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