#granulation

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[blondebrainpowered]

Victorian sardonyx cameo and 18-karat gold Etruscan style bracelet, ca. 1870.

Courtesy Spicer Warin.

[dishtradish]

Just a quick sketch testing some new granulating watercolors

[thejewellerybox]

Gold and amber earrings with head of a Black African youth. Etruscan, ca. 200–100 BCE

In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum.

[nikacreatesarts]

Daily sketch

28/365 - 29/365

[punkedsolar]

Daniel Smith Watercolour experimentation

I've been using pan colours, specifically the semi watercolour Kuretake Gansai colours. Note - I don't even go here, I'm not part of the fight between the Asian style Gansai semi-opaques and the 'pure' European colours. I love the Gansai set as well. All my paintings before now are Gansai.

My family got me a Watercolour course for my birthday where the teacher has asked us to use Daniel Smith colours - an import from the US for me.. So I've started experimenting on 100% cotton with those. It's impressive - very smooth, incredibly pure colour and mixing. Here is the outcome of an evening's experimentation with 3 warm and 3 cool primary colours. On the far left you can see what happens with a water-sprayed cotton with the Cadmium Red Medium Hue, then a light spray with the Rose Madder Permanent, then no water for the Yellow Ochre Mid.

The two melds are warm and cold, then a warm to cold meld on the far right.

The last thing is a small gladioli flower that I did with the remnant colours I had left in my palette.

I've heard that Da Vincis are superior with lower granulation, and cheaper - whether Daniel Smith just has good marketing or not, I don't know.

[optikestrav]

necklace finials (c C10-13th) gold

exhibited: Ayala Museum, Manila

[zlatokryletz]

Red tower amidst the October gold💛 The hue distinction with its work in progress is so huge due to the lighting that makes the colours play out so differently.