artisnotsubjective

artisnotsubjective t1_iujrj6y wrote

Ideally and usually there is no white paint in watercoloring. The point is in order to convey a sense of absolute brightness one has to use the paper itself. I'm sure there are super bright white©® paints available today, but what makes watercoloring unique is the very light and bright values one can achieve because of water's unique transparency , which opaque, dense paints can only achieve "artificially".

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