Color Making Accident

[eller]

NOOOO!



This is... a watercolor making catastrophe. :( The plan was to make a useful three-color set of pre-mixed basic skintones from transparent pigments (PY154, PR209, PB60) and give them to artistically inclined friends for Christmas. That... is not going to happen.

It's not quite as bad as it looks, as the colors are perfectly useable. I just somehow made the binder with too much water, so the colors lost too much volume when drying and, well, cracked badly. Technically, not a quality problem at all - but the result looks seriously crappy and can't be given as a gift. Oh well. Looks like at least I won't have to buy skintone watercolors next year... LOL

You are allowed to laugh. :)

Comments

[writedragon]

Speaking as an artist -- I would LOVE to have a set like this, cracked or not. Are you sure they're not giftable? Maybe with a note explaining that they are custom made and why they cracked, exactly as you did in your post? Maybe I'm just funny that way. Either way, I hope you (and maybe some other weirdos who are like me and don't rest on appearances) get to enjoy them in the coming year.

[eller]

Nah, I'll just make another batch next weekend, I guess... XD I've made my own watercolors before, and they never turned out looking like that, so, nope, entirely un-giftable. Good for my sketchbook, though.

[yhlee]

Yeah, hard same. XD

[james]

I am disappointed because I saw the pic first and thought CHOCOLATES and they are not chocolates and I am sad for you, because you can eat chocolates even when they turn out funny looking.

But I suspect you should not eat water color paints.

[eller]

I don't think these are very healthy. XD