Chinese Watercolor Tutorial - How to Use Marie's Opaque Watercolors

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[12slipper]

can you paint with any kind of watercolor paint?

[blueheronarts]

@12slipper Not on rice paper.

[Krystinell]

another question: i have some chinese watercolours (cheap,no-name skyfly stationery factory sanbei cixi city, and on them isn't written whether they are mineral or not). what do you think ? are they good for painting on rice paper? what do you think about the cheap chinese watercolours in general? (and let's not forget that most of the items in the world are made in china :D). they bleed a lot. are they bad-quality, or am i using too much water?

[blueheronarts]

@Krystinell Those sounds like kid painting watercolors. They are not not for Chinese brush painting on rice paper. But you can use that for practice since they are cheap. I do not recommend them for painting on rice paper - they don't blend well with ink and will run as you re-wet it as you said "bleed" a lot. They are meant for kids painting. Yes you can find those in yellow boxes in W*lmart here in the US. Chinese painting is not kids painting. Sorry to say that.

[Krystinell]

hi again. :D

please tell me, the black watercolour found in the same palette as the other colours (marie's, for example) works just as good as the ink, or are they different? what's the difference?

[blueheronarts]

@Krystinell The black color works NOT as good as ink and that is there is NO black color in Marie's 12 colour palette. The binding agent of black is same as other colours. It turns to stick on the brush because it is too thick out of the tube and you won't get as much tones as ink when you dilute it with water. That is why you don't find the black in the new Marie's 12 color series. Maybe it is used only when ink is not available. Or in some cases where extreme black is required. Good question.

[loveswine2]

Thanks for sharing your expertise! Is the easel you're using sold on your website as well? It looks different than traditional desk top easels. Or is that a cover over the easel?

[blueheronarts]

@loveswine2 I just put my magnetic sketch board over a normal table easel. You may use a magnetic white board, then cover it with felt and I use s trong mini magnetic paperweight to hold the paper. You can find those mini paperweight at ouir online store. Thanks for asking.

[Loveangelangelame]

whats the difference of chinese water colors and normal water colors?

[blueheronarts]

@Loveangelangelame Traditional Chinese watercolor is made from natural dyes and minerals rather than finer pigment particles in western watercolor. Please do not try to use Chinese painting color on regular watercolor paper espacially the mineral colors because they are more opaque, not transparent. They are supposed to be used on the wrong side of rice paper.

[Loveangelangelame]

@blueheronarts kay. thanks :D

[blueheronarts]

@Loveangelangelame The difference is in the binding glue, source material and opacity.Western colorcolor is designed to be used on watercolor paper which is none absorbent, and stretched before painting, whereas Chinese watercolor is suitable to paint on rice paper stretched after painting. If you use western watercolor on rice paper, the color will run and bleed when the painting is wet-mounted, but Chinese painting color is with more stable binder.

[blueheronarts]

@Loveangelangelame I found western watercolor is very difficult to blend with sumi ink--they tend to be muddy or dirty when mixed and applied on rice paper. Chinese painting colors, on the other hand, are very friendly with sumi ink, which serves as the "bone" of Chinese painting. They could be mingled together to create all kinds of colorful gray tones often seen in Chinese pantings.



[StrategicMedia]

Lovely and very helpful. Thank you, as always.

[angixm]

Ni Hao!

I found the individual colors for purchase on your website...

Was the price for one tube or one box (5 tubes)?

Xie Xie Ni,

angi

[blueheronarts]

@angixm The price is for one large tube(12ml). Thank you for asking.

[angixm]

@blueheronarts Sounds like I should just buy a new set of paints that would be sooo much less money... Xie Xie Ni.

[christopherguilfoil]

Hello Henry,

What paper are you demonstrating on in this video?

[blueheronarts]

@christopherguilfoil I used double layer Xuan(shuan or shuen) rice paper. Thank you!

[littlepero]

hello! where can I buy these kinds of brushes?? thx from Italy

[blueheronarts]

@littlepero Waterbrush are aalso vailable at our website: BlueHeronArts (.) Com (see link in the video description). Thank you!