Watercolor! Happy Solstice!

[eller]

No, this was actually not planned, but a funny and very fitting coincidence: finally, my newest homemade watercolor is ready! Today is the best day to publish a paint called "Living Sun", right? Happy Solstice to everyone who celebrates, and a wonderful time to everyone else, too! :D



Filling the pans took a while: I learned that PY159 is a very annoying pigment, even more difficult to work with than the PB71 I already complained about. It loves to unmix and it loves to make awful lumps that no amount of grinding managed to remove: after an hour, new lumps inevitably formed. I'm soooo glad I somehow got this into the pans!



I added a small amount of PY138 because... PY159 granulates nicely but is not a particularly intense color. So, the PY138 (which is a cool and very intense yellow) unmixes on the paper from the (warm) PY159, and it's an effect I'm actually very happy with. Looks much nicer in real life than in the photo!

Comments

[foxmoth]

Glorious!!!!!

[spacebaozi]

Beautiful! *_*

[light_of_summer]

The Living Sun sample swatch looks really good, in the photo, to me! And, yes, this is the perfect time for it. 😌

Happy Return of the Sun to you and yours, and good wishes for any other winter holiday(s) you celebrate! 🌲🌄🌲

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On a completely different subject, I still mean to write a further response to your extensive thoughts about Vida Verde—sorry for the delay! I will try to get to that, soon, but there are some things that are crowding ahead of it in my queue.

I mention it mostly because I appreciate you taking the time to look them over and share your impressions, and I wanted to respond more thoughtfully than I could have when I first read them, but I hadn't meant to postpone my reply so much!

You don't need to say anything about this, right now—I just wanted to let you know that I hadn't forgotten or ignored what you wrote.

[wayfaringwordhack]

Very apt name!