Watch This BEFORE Investing in Super Granulating Watercolors! Real Time Let's Paint!

I hope this video inspires you to paint and clears up some confusion about granulating watercolors. There have been a lot of pricy granulating sets for sale lately and they are beautiful but before you buy see what you already have, you probably have some colors that will get you started!

Granulation is the textured effect some watercolors have in wet washes where sedimentary pigments separate and settle out from other colors. It is currently a very popular look. Ultramarine, cerulean, mars black, cobalt colors, and some cadmium have this quality and you might already have them! I have a blog post here that shows swatches of my DIY granulating palette using watercolors I already had: https://thefrugalcrafter.wordpress.co... You can use the chart and pigment info to compare what you have that may work before purchasing more paint. Don't get overwhelmed, painting should be fun!

Tips for enhancing granulation:
1. Use heavily sized paper.
2. Paint in very wet washes.
3. Let paint dry naturally undisturbed (don't fuss with it or you will just stir the paint up again LOL!)

Resources:
A little Creative on Etsy sells Renesans Tubes at an affordable price and you can save 10% with the coupon code FRUGAL10
https://www.etsy.com/listing/64310558...
My favorite Rensans granulating colors are:
Renesans #22 Bordeax Cadmium PR108
Renesans #25 Maganase Violet PV16
Renesans #26 Ultramarine Violet PV16, PB29

Turner also has some nice granulating colors: Ultramarine Blue Deep, Mars Black and Mars Violet (it's more of a brown FYI) and you can snag then for $5 a 15ml tube when they are on super sale at Jerrys: https://www.jerrysartarama.com/turner...
Warning, they are 3x the price on amazon and I would not recommend paying that much because you could get Schminke for that LOL!

Schminke has a full line of granulating watercolors that are lovely, albeit expensive but if you are interested Blick has a good price: https://shrsl.com/36lut

Masha's watercolors are the ones in the wooden palette I used and they are gorgeous. They are handmade and expensive but lovely nonetheless. You can see an unbox and swatch of this palette here:    • The Fanciest Watercolors I've Ever Seen!   and visit Masha's shop here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/MashasWater...

Here are the Mimik faux squirrel brush I use: https://amzn.to/34yLHNK

Here are the talkon ones durable and good for agitating paint and they are good for painting with too! They won't hold as much water as the Mimiks tho: https://amzn.to/3LcIdSb


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