Scholarly Articles

Wax Medium is a carefully melted and blended combination of linseed oil, bleached beeswax and dammar crystals.

Safflower allows certain colors to hold onto a luminosity that would otherwise be lost. Learn more about it and the safflower colors we offer.

When painting with watercolors outside, there are a few things you definitely need, and others that can ease your way...

Due to QoR’s modern formula, the dry tube paint will re-wet easily and provide the intense saturation expected of QoR.

Masking Fluid resists watercolor paints, allowing artists to preserve fine details and lines of paper that might be otherwise difficult to paint around.

An easy solution for taking watercolors on plein air painting adventures.

To push the boundaries of watercolors, work larger, or eliminate glass, varnish is a valuable option.

The description “earth pigment” originally indicated a natural material mined from the earth, but natural pigments also have synthetic siblings that greatly expand the earth color family.

"The color of English rain” is the simple characterization of Payne's Gray that delineates the essence of this color.

Synthetic Ox Gall is a wetting agent to change how diluted watercolor moves over or absorbs into surfaces. Lift Aid is a transparent fluid which when allowed to dry facilitates lifting of colors. Watercolor Medium is Aquazol® binder for increasing adhesion of highly diluted colors. All three can be found with “watercolor mediums” and may assist in techniques and might provoke new avenues of exploration.

QoR Interference and Iridescent paints reflect and refract light, causing different colors and effects.

A six-color palette and demonstration of the mixing potential when organized around an artist’s color wheel.