Tag Daniel Smith

Watercolor Lightfastness Testing

I swatched out 3 palettes of mine for testing lightfastness–my Muted Palette, Primary Palette, and a palette consisting of Da Vinci and American Journey watercolors. I think there may be 2 or 3 slightly fugitive colors, but I wanted to…

Anne M. Burnett
December 7, 2022

Custom Paint Mixes

I created new watercolor paint mixes with the browns and purples I’ve been experimenting with and put them in a mini palette

Anne M. Burnett
August 7, 2022

Mixing Brown & Purple Watercolors

Inspired by some unique colors I have in colored pencil, I explored various mixes of brown and purple watercolor paints I had on hand. Browns Warm Sepia, Jackson’s Raw Umber, Holbein Sepia, Daniel Smith Purples Quinacridone Purple Blue, Van Gogh…

Anne M. Burnett
August 7, 2022

New Muted Watercolor Palette

I assembled my new muted watercolor palette with curated colors from my collection (Roman Szmal, A Gallo, Daniel Smith, Winsor and Newton, and Sennelier)

Anne M. Burnett
June 14, 2022

Assembling a New Muted Palette

I've decided to pull together some watercolors from my collection for a muted palette. This will be an alternate to my primary palette, which leans more toward bright, saturated colors.

Anne M. Burnett
June 13, 2022