There are many reasons not to make your own watercolor. Not enough time. Lack of access to tools and materials. Besides, you can buy ready-made, ready-to-use watercolor and start painting immediately. And then there’s WHEEEEEEEE! I CAN MAKE MY OWN WATERCOLOR!!! Whee wins. Other people go to Katz’s, I proceed to Kremer. I’ve always wanted to take a …
I found it in National Bookstore and gave it a try, because P112.00 is not bad for a watercolor pad. Twenty-four spiral-bound acid-free sheets of practice goodness. The paper is a warm off-white. I also grabbed a couple of Chinese brushes to practice with. The result is two unusual girls having their usual hit of …
When you grow up stabbing Wonder Woman’s outline on empty cigarette cartons with a ballpoint, you don’t develop a light hand. I remember proudly darkening the outlines on all my trees, apples, houses and sunflowers in art class, thinking it made them look neater. I walked by a Chinese calligraphy exhibit last month and realized …
As someone who is used to carrying bags which have entire universes inside, I am grateful to have assembled a pocket kit for my attempts at watercolor. The pencil (which changes) is a Rotring, the paintbrush came from another watercolor box, and the Moleskine watercolor notebook is just the right size. The watercolor box from …
Fountain pen ink exhibits all sorts of weirdness when worked wet-in-wet, the waterproof and bulletproof kind even more so. Thus began a quick Sunday adventure with a watercolor brush, a tray of inks and watercolor paper. The ink that spreads green is Waterman Blue-Black (for those of you who swear it’s not blue-black but green, …