Watercolour paint generally comes in two forms, pan or tube. The pan hearkens back to the beginning of watercolour when artists used cakes of pigment that took hours to activate and produced thin washes. Modern pans are formulated for easy re-wetting and super bright colours. In this painting I used the pan format, mostly from Van Gogh company, and some from Stoneground paint. I also squeezed some tube paint into the pan and let it dry, so that is a kind of hybrid. Most companies sell a bit of both formats. I never took to the pan format because they get muddy very quick if you mix paint a lot; they work best if you apply the paint direct to the paper without too much mixing. The pan by the way, is not really a pan, nor is it made from metal, it is just a little plastic container with four sides that holds about 2 mL of paint. The paint is semi-solid, and can last for hundreds of paintings.
Riding the Wave, watercolour 9 x 12" watercolour paper, May 2022
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