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Quick Tip About Watercolor Paints!

Name: Quick Tip About Watercolor Paints!
Uploaded: 2023-07-12T18:35:09+00:00
Duration: 56 s
Channel: Christie Hawkins
Description: In this short instructional video, Christie Renee Hawkins demonstrates how pigment strength and dilution affect color intensity in both tube watercolor…

12 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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In this short instructional video, Christie Renee Hawkins demonstrates how pigment strength and dilution affect color intensity in both tube watercolor paints and acrylics. She shows that tube watercolors are heavily pigmented and produce very strong colors when used with minimal water, while adding more water lightens the hue. She then repeats the same process with acrylic paint, illustrating that increasing water also reduces its color strength, highlighting the similar behavior of the two mediums regarding dilution.

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So you can see how heavy pigmented this is. So if you want really strong colors, you're probably going to want to go with some tube watercolor because it is really, really strong color, heavy pigmented. And I can just again load up with a bunch of water. And it's the same thing. The less water I get, the stronger that color is going to be. I'm just going to get more water on my brush, just going to water down this acrylic, and I get the same effect. You can see this is pretty heavy pigmented too, but I can keep doing the same thing with it. Just get more water.