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Category: Pigments

How to Mix Desert Green in Watercolor

by LisaPalettes, PigmentsPosted on May 11, 20232 Comments

What do I mean by desert green? Feast your eyes on the cacti and agaves below to see: Did you spot the baby saguaro? :) This opaque dusty green really used to trip me up when I first got started with watercolors. But not anymore! I found some key colors that really make mixing this …

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What’s On My Palette?

by LisaPalettes, PigmentsPosted on December 13, 202210 Comments

Choosing paints to put on your palette is very personal — it depends on where you live, what you like to paint, how much you enjoy color mixing, and more. Someone who does botanical art will have a very different palette than someone who focuses on urban scenes. I live in Central Texas but I …

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Fall/Winter palette update!

by LisaGear, PigmentsPosted on September 26, 20224 Comments

I love tinkering with my palette and switching it up for the seasons. I put together this fall/winter version in my Art Toolkit Folio so that I could play with lots of reds, oranges and yellows plus have some moody darks and easy ways to mix snow. I also tried to have transparent and opaque …

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Texas Gulf Coast Prairie Palette

by LisaGear, PigmentsPosted on April 12, 20225 Comments

I’m going to be teaching an in-person workshop near Houston and put together this palette for the students and had to share. It’s designed for ease of mixing out in the field and the colors of the Texas Gulf Coast Prairies, but I bet it would make a great everyday palette as well. I’ve been …

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An Ode to Cobalt Teal Blue (PG50)

by LisaGear, PigmentsPosted on March 25, 20227 Comments

I’ve had Cobalt Teal Blue on my palette for years — it’s one of my favorites. I’ve found that not many people know about this glorious color and all the magic mixes you can make with it, so I decided to write this Ode to Cobalt Teal Blue. This is pigment number PG50 Daniel Smith …

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