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Palette Series: Primary palette
Colors: Alizarin crimson Raw sienna Turquoise Pros: Despite the limited availability of colors, the mixes available to us are versatile...
Viktoria Kozma
Dec 13, 20211 min read


Palette Series: Monochrome
Colors: Winsor and Newton white gouache Grumbacher Chinese white Winsor and Newton Cotman sepia Winsor and Newton Cotman Payne's grey...
Viktoria Kozma
Dec 13, 20212 min read


Palette Series: Schmincke Hordam
Metal set with water tank and 8 x ½ pans Ideal for travelling. The size of the box is 6,8 x 9,7 x 3 cm (length/width/height). Special...
Viktoria Kozma
Nov 10, 20211 min read


Palette Series: Sakura Koi neons and metallics
"Koi® CAC (Creative Art Colors) Water colors are compact kits packed with unique colors and effects for one of a kind projects. Each cake...
Viktoria Kozma
Oct 31, 20212 min read


Palette series: Daniel Smith - Ultimate Mixing Set
Daniel Smith is one of the most recognizable and highly regarded brand of paints, they take close care in the watercolors they produce -...
Viktoria Kozma
Oct 30, 20212 min read


Palette Series: Kuretake - Gansai Tambi
Shout out to my friend Jaz for sending me this palette around a year ago to try out - I appreciate you. "Japanese traditional paint for...
Viktoria Kozma
Oct 23, 20211 min read


Palette Series: Prima Watercolor Confections/ Art Philosophy
Prima Watercolor Confections, recently renamed Art Philosophy has multiple palettes available. Their entire series of palettes include:...
Viktoria Kozma
Oct 23, 20211 min read


Palette series: Royal and Langnickel
I've seen a lot of similar palettes floating around the internet lately - ones that have multiple layers that fold out like steps. This...
Viktoria Kozma
Oct 20, 20212 min read


Palette Series: KOH-I-NOOR
I picked up this palette a few years ago in Europe and have had a difficult time finding this exact set in the States. From what I can...
Viktoria Kozma
Oct 20, 20211 min read


Palette Series: Florals
Next in our series of unique and engaging palette options has been built around floral hues that also act as useful mixtures. We believe...
Viktoria Kozma
Oct 18, 20211 min read


Palette Series: En Plein Air
The expression "en plein air" comes from French meaning "outdoors" and is used referring to painting that is done outside. Watercolor...
Viktoria Kozma
Oct 18, 20211 min read


Pencil accents in watercolor
A few months ago I was experimenting with creating new forms of chimeras, below we can see examples of two such creations. However, as I...
Viktoria Kozma
Oct 14, 20211 min read
Composition: Concepts of Hierarchy
In our last post we talked about what kind of structures are recommended to use in any given work of art, depending on where we want to...
Viktoria Kozma
Oct 10, 20212 min read


Composition: The Structure of Art
Composition is the way we would ideally like to set up a piece to make it aesthetically pleasing; just as we stated before, take these as...
Viktoria Kozma
Oct 9, 20212 min read


Color theory: Skin Tones
Zorn and Apelles Palettes This specific palette has been popularized by Swedish artist Andres Zorn, and is primarily used for creating...
Viktoria Kozma
Oct 9, 20211 min read


Color theory: mixing colors
Revisiting Split Primaries Here I want us to pay attention to just how many new colors we can create with just the six from our...
Viktoria Kozma
Oct 7, 20212 min read


Color Theory: The Color Wheel
A huge component of color theory is understanding the properties of the colors themselves as well as the relationships between colors,...
Viktoria Kozma
Oct 7, 20212 min read


Color Theory: Split Primary Palette
Introduction We have recently made a post on contrasting colors, which reminded me just how important the colors themselves were, so I...
Viktoria Kozma
Oct 6, 20212 min read


Reverse Graphite
Using graphite shavings to build up a base layer of what is essentially an editable mid-tone parchment. To do this, I make sure I already...
Viktoria Kozma
Oct 3, 20211 min read


Contrast: Color
When talking about contrast, there are actually a lot of different categories to cover (which we will in later posts), but today I wanted...
Viktoria Kozma
Oct 3, 20211 min read
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