My palettes were getting a bit messy, and I wanted to add a color or two . . .
As long as I was at it, I filled a Pocket Palette with earthy autumn, granulating pigments. But the smooth paper of this Stillman & Birn Beta sketchbook does not show granulation to its best advantage.
Might be a good paper for Derwent Graphitint paints though.
Hello! I'm here for more information about the Graphtint paintbox. Do you know if the paints are considered "artist quality" or whether they are lightfast? New to all this and I have been advised to stick to artist-grade supplies.
ReplyDeleteThank you!
I always try to use Artist Quality paints and paper -- It's so much easier when you aren't fighting your tools!
DeleteDerwent doesn't give much information regarding their products in general, so I did a lightfast test of my own. You can see the results in my blog entry on July 11 of this year. A good friend of mine had previously used their Graphitint pencils in her artist journal, only to find the colors shifted and faded _in a closed book_! So I wasn't too sure about the new paints and tested them myself.
Two cards were painted out then one tucked away out of sight and one taped in a south-facing sunny window (I live in Texas, there's quite a lot of sun) for several months. The results were quite good!
Thank you for your response. I appreciate you sharing your experience. I did read that. I also learned that the Graphtint pencils appear to be similar in name, but more vibrant than the paints. Interesting.
ReplyDeleteWith a watercolor workshop on the horizon, I think I'm going to buy two or three tubes of paint suggested by the instructor that aren't in my current paintbox and leave these for a future splurge.
Still learning and erring on the side of less is more; and then, you are given a class supplies list that causes that to go by the wayside. (I lost count on the number of pencils I need, but I figure a total of six absolutely new paints plus paintbox is plenty for a rank novice.)
I have a long, long way to go before I'm drawing/painting at your level, but I'm trying.
I really appreciate your willingness to share.
Thank you!
I wasted so much money when I first began sketching, some 14 or 15 years ago, even buying my first watercolors one at a time using Hobby Lobby's or Michael's Crafts' 40% coupons! Any new book I looked at had a different recommended set of tools.
DeleteThen there is the lure of on-line artists and the mistaken belief that if I just use the same as them, my results will improve!
I still try new things now and then, but when we downsized to living in a very small space (we converted a small pole-barn into a home plus woodshop), I simplified my stuff -- and it makes my art decisions much easier!