Are You Wasting Your Money on Expensive Watercolor? Prang Watercolor

Описание: Looking for a great budget watercolor paint? Have you tried Prang watercolors yet? I put these children's paints through the paces- swatching, color mixing, and even painting a beautiful bouquet of flowers to see if they're fit for your watercolor needs!

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Half Pans: https://amzn.to/48kHZpV
Ovals: https://amzn.to/46ojNQX

Would you like to color along with me? Patrons have access to the printable coloring sheet, or you can pay $5 for just the coloring sheet: https://www.patreon.com/posts/backer-...

Prang:
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Prang Student Watercolors Fieldtest and Tutorial:    • Prang Student Watercolors Fieldtest and Tu...  
Mixing Skintones with Prang Watercolors:    • Mixing Skintones with Prang Watercolors  

Crayola:
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Crayola Supertips Watercolor Hack:    • Crayola Supertips Watercolor Hack  
Crayola Washable Watercolor Challenge:    • 🖍️Crayola Washable Watercolor Challenge🖍️  
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Love Beam: Crayola Supertip Tutorial:    • Love Beam: Crayola Supertip Tutorial  


Da Vinci:
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Shownotes:
Full Shownotes:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/13...

How do These Children's/Educational Watercolors Compare Against Professional Watercolors

Professional watercolors typically have a gum arabic, honey, or proprietary base like Aquazol. They may contain dyes as lake pigments, but they may also contain synthetic and mineral pigments. They may have properties like granulation. Generally, Professional watercolors are more saturated in masstone, and will not 'flood' a wash as much as children's grade will. Professional grade watercolors are not specifically formulated to be washable, and many colors are incredibly staining and will stain skin and clothing. Some pigments are toxic (cadmium, cobalt). Many professional grade watercolors are formulated to be lightfast, meaning it can withstand sunlight without fading (although this is not true for all colors).

If you are just doing watercolor for fun, you may not feel the need to spend money on professional watercolors and that's fine. Children's grade and student grade are often not capable of the same effects and techniques, but you may not need those techniques for you rart or what you are practicing. Some might find these watercolors work well for practicing handlettering in watercolor, or watercolor florals, and that's fine. That said, I would strongly recommend not using children's grade watercolors for art that you intend to sell. If you're selling reproductions, that's fine, but selling originals made with these paints is not a good idea.

Painting with Prang is suitable for mixed-age groups where you're trying to meet a variety of needs, such as younger children and adults. They're going to be easier to clean up and more affordable than student grade or professional grade watercolors, and can do many of the same techniques. I also think these can be great for practicing brush strokes, for journaling, or as an entry point to see if you enjoy watercolor as a medium.

All in all, Prang performed better than I expected, and it's nice to be able to test out and recommend a very affordable, very accessible watercolor option for play and experimentation.

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
02:18 A Tale of Two Prangs
07:38 Swatching
15:16 Prang Online
19:33 Back to the Desktop
20:13 Color Mixing
22:57 Wet into Wet
26:43 Swatching on Cellulose
35:47 Comparison Swatching
36:45 Crayola
37:16 Da Vinci
42:33 Fieldtest
49:14 Pros & Cons
55:01 Other Bouquet Fieldtests
58:50 Final Thoughts

Music:
A Day in the Village Loop
A Day in the Village Loop Layer Dulcimer
A Day in the Village with Final No Loop
By the Bonfire Intro
By the Bonfire Loop
By the Bonfire with Final No Loop
Calm Intro
Calm Loop
Calm with Final No Loop
Exploring the Village Loop
Exploring the Village with Final No Loop
Kevin MacLeod- Enchanted Valley
Kevin MacLeod- Folk Round
Kevin MacLeod- Master of the Feast
Sunny Travel- Nico Staff
Sunset Dream- Cheel

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