Life and handmade watercolors
Jan. 29th, 2021 03:51 amLife's busy but okay. :3
- I had mail! A lovely handmade New Year's card from![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
goss and a letter from yhlee. Also a few cards from postcrossing. They really seem to deliver international mail in batches.
- I've almost finished my Chocolate Box assignment! And I'm even having fun writing it. That's a surprise. :D
- I love my ice cream machine. I made apricot ice cream with yoghurt and it was great!
- Still experimenting with handmade watercolors, the mad scientist way. If I continue this hobby I should probably invest in scales at some point. LOL
So here's my next experiment: skin tones!
These were overdue: I'm super annoyed that, if you try to buy pre-mixed skin tones they always contain opaque white so you can't go as dark as you want with them. Also, I really dislike having to use "earth pigments" like PBr7 or PY42 for brown skin because they look like, well, earth - not skin. (It's the texture.) I wanted transparent and staining and absolutely-not-granulating skin tones that I can use for dark skin and dilute for light skin.
So... I actually produced these from the primary colors. :D All three skin tones contain the same pigments, just in different ratios. I'm pretty confident I can render almost all skin colors with a combination of these three, and maybe the help of an indigo or dark purple (which I don't need to produce: there are enough on the market) - but, importantly, they're not orange-pink-whiteish mud...
- I had mail! A lovely handmade New Year's card from
goss and a letter from yhlee. Also a few cards from postcrossing. They really seem to deliver international mail in batches.- I've almost finished my Chocolate Box assignment! And I'm even having fun writing it. That's a surprise. :D
- I love my ice cream machine. I made apricot ice cream with yoghurt and it was great!
- Still experimenting with handmade watercolors, the mad scientist way. If I continue this hobby I should probably invest in scales at some point. LOL
So here's my next experiment: skin tones!
These were overdue: I'm super annoyed that, if you try to buy pre-mixed skin tones they always contain opaque white so you can't go as dark as you want with them. Also, I really dislike having to use "earth pigments" like PBr7 or PY42 for brown skin because they look like, well, earth - not skin. (It's the texture.) I wanted transparent and staining and absolutely-not-granulating skin tones that I can use for dark skin and dilute for light skin.
So... I actually produced these from the primary colors. :D All three skin tones contain the same pigments, just in different ratios. I'm pretty confident I can render almost all skin colors with a combination of these three, and maybe the help of an indigo or dark purple (which I don't need to produce: there are enough on the market) - but, importantly, they're not orange-pink-whiteish mud...
