Dr Ph Martins Hydrus Fine Art Liquid Watercolor Sets
Dr Ph Martin's Liquid Watercolors are the most other-worldly, whimsical, airy and light-catching, phantasmagoric liquid watercolors I have institute. And, they should definitely not be dislocated with Dr Martens, making equally trendy shoes which are however characterised by almost reverse properties to those listed to a higher place.
These cute, precious trivial glass bottles containing pure, vibrant, modern-looking hues of liquid watercolours are by and large not for the outdoorsy or Urban Sketcher: too heavy and dangerous, unless used to fill up watercolour pens. Nor really are they for the someone often working on the fly. No, these luxury-feeling items are rather for the home watercolorist. One who can make leisurely use of their time, a rare and exotic grapheme in our rushed modern world, and is seeking to pack a dial in their colour palette.
1 should besides own one or several enamel or porcelain palettes equally these products are so full-bodied they will stain plastic ones permanently fifty-fifty on first use. Finally, liquid watercolours are probably not a beginner's item considering of their price and especially because they require confident brush strokes and acceptance of unplanned colour effects. Indeed they are, unlike traditional watercolours, permanent from the instant they hitting the paper. And so permanent in fact that they dry much closer to their wet colour than traditional watercolours and fade very slowly to non at all (depending on the line used) upon exposure to daylight.
Dr Ph Martin's Hydrus Fine Art Liquid Watercolors
This being said though, in researching this slice online, I found many links to parent/teacher training in how to guide children, even very young ones, on how to mess about with cheaper versions of them. I bought my first set of 12 Hydrus Fine art Watercolor, 0.v OZ, Set up 1 having been told they were the world's best liquid watercolours . There are three sets in this range which specifically carries smaller bottles, hence nearly halving the initial greenbacks outlay. I was certainly not disappointed, but initially I used them rarely, mostly because I wasn't sure how to use them.
That changed when I took a course by Camilla Damsbo on Skillshare, during which I painted the Koi fish picture shown hither. I discovered they are spectacular for moisture-on-wet painting and for mixed media piece of work, here juxtaposed against pan Payne's Gray and too combined with metallic watercolours.
Dr Ph Martin'due south Radiant Concentrated Liquid Watercolors
Notwithstanding, I truly fell head over heals over my Hydrus set when I took another Skillshare tutorial, this time by Amarilys Henderson on loose florals. Check out that tulip, dahlia and anemone taken from it (below). They illustrate how slap-up they are for on page wet-on-wet mixing and layering. That's when I decided to complement my Hydrus fix with a few bottles in the yellow-orange-red-pinkish Radiant range since I so beloved painting flowers.
I tin can't honestly see the divergence between the Hydrus and Radiant ranges (and there'south footling information provided on the Dr Ph Martin website), other than the latter being slightly less concentrated and hence oftentimes having a smaller dynamic range, equally per the pictures above.
Dr Ph Martin's Bombay Inks
I think the Bombay Ink range is probably much the same, except even more than concentrated. I oasis't personally tried their Mumbai Ink range but I am told information technology otherwise behaves very similarly to the other two ranges.
The Art Of Mixing
Finally, when I discovered the loose florals work and online lessons of Kris Keys (orchid beneath), I learnt they are really powerful when combined with traditional watercolours, when they generate long, homogenous gradient washes showing great depth upon dilution .
The mixing of liquid colours with conventional tube watercolors is shown immediately beneath. The lines are pure Hydrus watercolors. The rectangles on the right are tube watercolor gradient washes. Arrows indicates how colours were mixed, approximately 1:1. The middle row displays slope washes resulting from those mixes. Note how the two summit ones are longer and more than homogeneous than the tube alone gradients on the right and how in the bottom 1 a sort of perspective effect is obtained past the dyes separating through diffusing at slightly different rates.
What's more, they come in a huge variety of hues (56 in the Radiant range including 12 metallic/iridescent/fluorescent ones, 36 for the Hydrus and 24 for Bombay Ink with preselected sets and individual bottles always available) each slightly different to the side by side and imminently miscible. Thanks to the eye drop dosers incorporated in each hat, such mixes are then are quite reproducibly obtained if ane simply remembers to accept note the initial mixes 1 made.
Since then, I'thousand totally hooked on this grade of alchemy! I even downloaded the convenient Dr Ph Martin App (I kid you lot not!) on my phone and so I can cheque out their colour ranges and lodge more anywhere, anytime. Equally convenient, their website offers a system to select your bottles according to their many positive characteristics. Happy painting!
Disclaimer: I bought the liquid watercolors in this review. I received no consideration, though this post contains chapter links which help support Doodlewash community features. All opinions expressed are my own.
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