Gowanus Watercolor CO. It’s about the pigment!

 We have been trying to send samples as dot card...It was not working out! So we found these SUPER cute mini pans.   So in orders your samples will be in these pans.  BUT we also made an 8 color palette for purchase. Split primary color palette  https://www.etsy.com/shop/Gowanuswatercolorco?ref=search_shop_redire ct  For only $12.50! 

It seems that our etsy shop's best sellers are Palettes!  To add a little shimmer, we had started to make a mica brilliant gold.  How I use the paint is in back grounds. And Our Triade is our #1 seller.  It is based on the principal that artist need to train their eyes to see colors. This is a warm palette.  Once you get used to the medium than you add in more colors.  Like our cool palette By combining both palettes you get a split complementary palette, this means a warm and cool paint in each color yellow, red and blue. To buy these paints visit our Etsy shop at  https://www.etsy.com/shop/Gowanuswatercolorco?ref=simple-shop-header-name&listing_id=721628932

 We have expanded our colors. We added Queens Py 150. It is a uniques yellow that is super strong in all directions Also, you can now make your own palette. How do you paint? What do you paint? Pick 4 colors that will add to your process.   https://www.etsy.com/shop/Gowanuswatercolorco?ref=shop_sugg . 

The TRIAD palette is my best seller! I knew it would resonate with the artist.  How many watercolor colors do you need? Try just 3 Train your eyes to mix and see colors. The convenient package is small, 2 inches square. Good pricing $16.00 for 3 half pans of hand-poured single pigment paint for clean, clear colors.  Available on our ETSY shop we have sold out twice but added more yesterday! https://www.etsy.com/shop/Gowanuswatercolorco

John Singer Sargent is know for his portraits in oil. But when he traveled he would use...watercolor. In a time where Impressionism was the language of painters, the quick sketches in watercolor gave him the immediate visual impact and the joy of just painting.  Like his contemporaries, Plein aire was the way to paint.

Here is a quick video of how I make watercolor paint is made. https://youtu.be/A_j01QrXz64

I have named all my colors with a nod to my home town. Red Hook is made from Pr 108, which is a Cadmium Red.  On its own, this granulating color seems uninspired. But once mixed with practically any other colors it shows its strength. 

The Triad Giveaway In art school, you train. You learn the basics to train your eyes, hands, and brain.  Start with the fundamentals. This triad will train you to see colors. In watercolor, unlike other painting practices, there are things that we have to consider. What the paint is made of is one. What is the pigment, does it granulate, does it layer, does the color shift when dry.  I prefer single pigment colors. which is why I put this Triad togeather. Small and portable.  So follow this blog and leave a comment to win this set of artist-grade watercolor.  

So...this starts a year ago April. I am primarily a sculptor so my painting and sketching were getting rusty. I inflicted a self-challenge that I would paint 100 faces or pieces of faces in watercolor or gouache. And if not painting do a sketch every day!  I hit face #100 and felt I had not learned enough about this medium. Not just the techniques but the paint, why was my constraint question.  Down the rabbit hole I went, all things were new, odd, thrilling, beautiful and frighting.  It all pointed to the pigment. I understand binders, and paper and brushes from all my other disciplines. Color theory is not a foreign country. Additive color theory in transparencies I am acquainted with. But when yellow and blue did not make green, I was stumped. In a flash, it hit me like a flamingo in the face.....the pigments ...I need to know more. Books, videos even a class at Kremer Pigments I finally have a grasp on it.  And a small line of artist-grade waterco...