In this class, you will learn to swatch your watercolor paints in order to get to know them and their properties, in a fun and playful way. I will also teach you to make a beautiful swatch page for a color palette.
A good way to understand your watercolor paints is to swatch them, meaning making a little card with the color painted on it so you can really see its hue as a paint, not only what is printed on the tube or pan.
That is the simplest form of swatching: the paint chip. But things can get much more interesting.
Watercolor paint properties
Watercolor paints have many properties that differ from one color to the next, depending on the pigments used and what the paint is made of, for example:
- the range of the hue,
- transparency vs opacity,
- staining properties,
- the ability to layer the color,
- the possiblity to lift the color,
- how it behaves in water.
I will teach you what these properties mean throughout this class.
