Beginners to watercolour are often troubled by the mechanics of the medium. It is different from opaque art materials such as oils and acrylics and so easy to mix a muddy colour.
I like to keep my palette in a very ordered state and I tend to paint with only primary colours. Red, yellow and blue. I then have a separate area for mixing tertiary colours. As you can see above.
I do this because of some advice I heard years ago…If you want clean washes keep your palette clean – Mucky Palette will equal a muddy wash.
I’ll talk more about warm and cool colours in a later post.
Todays image is another one developed from my sketch book. This is the path from Aberporth to Tresaith. Its been recently pathed for easy access but two thirds of the way to Tresaith it turns to a muddy track, most unsuitable for accessibility! However it is a very nice walk.
Day 8 done.
