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March Madness Week 2 Update!
On Discord we’re doing a bracket where we choose the ultimate favorite pigment. Last week, we blasted through the first 15 polls. This week we finished up round 1: between last week and this week, we’ve now voted on all 50 paints that I entered into the bracket and narrowed it down to 25.
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Brand Overview: Schmincke Horadam
Welcome to a new series! In Brand Overview, multiple contributors will provide their opinions and favorite colors from a watercolor manufacturer. Schmincke Horadam is a professional watercolor brand manufactured in Germany. They offer 139 watercolors, and additional 50 colors in their supergranulating range. On a regular basis they have limited edition colors. Their watercolors use
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Multilayered Vision: Making Color Sing, Chapter 12
For our third straight chapter on glazing, Dobie talks through a complex example of putting together a scene in the glazing method and offers some other glazing ideas.
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Winter Palette 2026
Ahh, it’s already March! I have to post my latest Winter Palette before it’s irrelevant. I’ve starred the most important colors. Top row: Bottom row: Comparison to other palettes I keep feeling like my palettes are converging and getting more and more similar! This is pretty different from my last winter palette, but it’s quite
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March Madness Week 1 Update!
This month over on Discord, we’re doing a pigment bracket to decide our favorite watercolor pigments. I included 50 entrants, chosen from Bruce MacEvoy’s Handprint Top 40 but with a few extras added. We’re just over halfway through round one, so we know at least one of the contenders that will go into each round
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Color Spotlight: Quinacridone Pyrrolidone (PR N/A)
This quinacridone/pyrrol combo pigment is generally suggested as an alternative to genuine Alizarin Crimson. I have now tried this pigment individually as WN Permanent Carmine; it is also said to be present in WN Permanent Alizarin Crimson, though it is unlisted. (I believe it: it looks very similar.) Pigment stats for Quinacridone Pyrrolidone (PR N/A)
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#OneWeek100People2026
I wanted to draw everyone’s attention to a fun annual challenge with very simple “rules”: draw 100 people between March 9th and March 13th. Any medium, any size, any source (life, reference, imagination), any level of complexity, with the focus being on quantity, not quality.
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Monthly Retrospective: February 2026
In January I noted the resolution to paint more everyday moments, but in February I mostly dropped it. It was a long, cold, dark month (doesn’t February always seem long, even if it’s technically the shortest month?) I was finding very little inspiration in the gray outdoors, and anyway it in the polar vortex it
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How can you paint a blue and yellow sky gradient without getting green?
Recently, I painted about the blue and yellow paints you can use to avoid getting green in the sky. But here’s a secret: you can use any paints you want if you use the right techniques. Read on!
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March Madness Pigment Bracket!
Here’s something incredibly silly: on my Discord I’m running a March Madness pigment bracket! Throughout March, I will poll the group 1-2 times a day on their favorite of two pigments, with the winner going on to “fight” other winners. We are starting with incredibly similar pigments, but they will get less and less similar.
