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Originally Posted by Valerie Gudorf
Thanks for the info about Createx pigments, Kitty. I was hoping to avoid having to go out and buy yet another kind of paint to use just to tone my pastel grounds because I have so many tubes of professional watercolor pigments. I was hoping I'd be able to use them for this purpose, as well as my traditional watercolor paintings. Will watercolor paint not work? If not, why not?
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Watercolor works. Its paint body is light enough not to fill the grit and it dries matte.
The downside of watercolor for me is:
1. It takes a lot of the stuff to make a vivid wash. Createx is much stronger, therefore less expensive.
2. Watercolor is gooey enough to get stuck up in the body of the brush* and resist liquifying into a wash. This is an annoyance for me because I work large, doing my underpainting in large, strongly colored, simple shapes like color fields, and Createx mixes into lots of wash -instantly.
*Remember to use a synthetic brush rather than natural bristles, since synthetic fiber resist abrasion.