I love color, though to be honest, turquoise was never my favorite color. There are many great blues, but I was never a big fan of turquoise. That is, until I tried DANIEL SMITH’s Sleeping Beauty Turquoise Genuine!

I discovered that there is turquoise—and then there’s TURQUOISE!

What a delicious color and texture!! It creates beautiful skies, fascinating water, mixes to make yummy greens and generally it is a great addition to my palette. I also love the fact that it really is REAL Genuine Turquoise! Like wearing jewelry on my watercolor paper!

Just to make it even more fun I began these tulips by applying a layer of DANIEL SMITH Titanium White Watercolor Ground to canvas panel (canvas mounted over rigid board) and then proceeded to create an underlying structure of the tulip shapes with a palette knife and more of the Watercolor Ground. Basically, I created an embossed or raised surface above my watercolor paper with the Ground which added some 3-dimensional effects to my tulip painting. Tip – I have found that a hard surface is ideal when applying Ground in thicker amounts because the rigid support will prevent cracking.

After letting it dry thoroughly overnight (overnight for low humidity, longer with higher humidity to allow the Ground to properly cure) the 3-D structure is ready for painting. Washes of wet, juicy watercolor interact nicely with the modeled ground, making great interest and contrast where it settles into the crevices. Here I used mainly Sleeping Beauty Turquoise, Hansa Yellow Medium and Quinacridone Burnt Orange.

I love how the Watercolor Ground added surface height and dimension to my tulips creating an exciting effect to my painting!

Enjoy the unending possibilities that Watercolor Ground provides—and treat yourself to some Turquoise!

-朱莉卡爾森

丹尼爾史密斯 (DANIEL SMITH) 水彩底稿:

  • 檔案級且無酸
  • 形成類似冷壓水彩紙的柔軟、吸水的表面
  • 適合所有水彩畫的優良表面
  • 水彩地面可承受大力擦洗而不會造成任何損壞
  • 色澤鮮豔,質地濃稠,可刷塗
  • 輕鬆應用
  • 修復和搶救畫作
  • 透明水彩現在可以在任何表面上顯示
  • 無玻璃框架
  • 非常適合多媒體工作——可與裝飾紙、丙烯酸顏料、蠟筆、彩色鉛筆、鋼筆和墨水、郵票、拼貼畫等結合使用
  • 有 6 種顏色可供選擇:鈦白色、珠光白色、彩虹金、淺鈦、火星黑和透明色
  • 市場上尚無類似產品。

使用 DANIEL SMITH 水彩底漆的技巧

準備
吸收性或半吸收性表面不需要特殊準備,只需確保在塗刷 DANIEL SMITH 水彩底漆之前表面清潔即可。這些包括紙張、帆布和其他織物、木材、石膏、貝殼和硬紙板。在刷水彩底漆之前,應先用砂紙或鋼絲絨輕輕打磨金屬、塑膠或玻璃等不吸水的表面。

應用
我們建議直接從容器中使用水彩底漆。其質地濃稠,易於塗抹。使用軟毛合成刷、泡棉刷或泡棉滾筒可獲得更光滑的表面,或使用猪鬃刷可獲得更有紋理的表面。地面色素濃厚,因此塗一層就可以覆蓋大部分錶面;吸水性極強的表面(如未完成的軟木)可能需要塗兩層,請先讓第一層固化,然後再塗第二層。使用後請立即清洗刷子,不要使用好刷子!
提示 – 使用水彩底漆拯救繪畫時,先在小盤中加入少許水彩底漆,並加入最多 10% 的水稀釋,然後使用像鱈魚刷這樣的軟刷。

養護
讓水彩底漆乾燥並固化至少 24 小時。這使得它達到正確的吸收程度。
繪畫 DANIEL SMITH 水彩底色與水彩和稀釋壓克力顏料完美搭配。因為它能形成比紙張更具吸水性的表面,所以您在繪畫時要使用更少的水。試驗一下,看看什麼最適合你。

精加工
與所有水彩畫一樣,如果不將 DANIEL SMITH 水彩底畫裝入玻璃框中,則需要將其固定。帶有 UVLS 的 GOLDEN Archival Aerosol MSA Varnish 是一款出色的噴霧清漆,可保護任何表面上的作品。請在室溫、通風良好的地方使用,並按照罐子上的說明進行操作。