Watercolour Painting

You know, its lucky that I'm not the About.com painting guide. (Apart from the fact that my colleague, Marion Boddy-Evans, does such an excellent job!).... I spent about two hours yesterday, trying to mix a certain colour. Its a funny, pinkish grayish tan colour - the colour of Queensland bulldust - that goes on our military vehicles, along with the army green and black. And it oxidizes in the sun, going yellower. I hate to think how much paint I wasted. I did find the perfect colour in a tube - 'Naples Yellow Reddish' - but it turned out to have white (gouache) in it, so it won't work with the watercolour washes. (It mixes, but gouache has that thick, opaque look.) I managed to get something like it eventually. Sort of.
I've decided that after this current crop of watercolours are finished, I'm going back to coloured pencil. At least until I forget how frustrating it was, and the lure of those brilliant colours, water and brushes sucks me in again....
Watercolour Pencil basics
Watercolour Painting Tips and Lessons from Marion