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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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Holbien I find very consitant and reliable. cotman is a cheaper paint but its still good for basics. I dont have anything much to say about Merimer and Venezia, both seem perfectly fine. Grumbacher is inconsistent with the amount of medium in each tube, which makes blending difficult, and I avoid it unless they have a particular color I want. Daniel Smith is by far the best, but are very expensive - however definitely worth a look at their website.
Too bad I guess here in Asia the following brands you've mentioned are quite expensive, but I'll still try if I can find some of them
One more question, I see that you have a lot of detailed watercolor back-grounds in your works, do you do the character first in your works or the back ground?
Your works are lovely and surreal! keep it up!
I often advise people to start with the basic colors you will need:
Cadmium red (medium hue)
Cadmium Yellow (light or medium hue, whichever you prefer)
Pthalo Green
Colbalt Blue
Ivory Black
Burnt Umber
With those colors you can mix them to get most other colors. - you can even cut back and not get the brown, which you can mix on your own as well. I just find I use it so much that it would be wasteful of other colors to mix it. these colors will probably cost you around 60 USD - but then every time you have an extra 10 - 20$ you can splurge on another color you want. I started with 10 tubes, my mom bought them for me for my birthday. some of the tubes are still practically full. - even that yellowy green that I use in all my paintings - it is Antique Olive Green, another Japanese Watercolor by Holbien. the tube seems hardly touched, but I have used that color in almost all my paintings since i got it!
It depends on the work. It is often better to start out with the background, but I find the need to start the character before the background is complete. Its a process going between the background and the character, the background usually 2-3 steps ahead of the character. occasionally I do the opposite, but its totally dependent on the composition and the relationship between character and background.