Scholarly Articles

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.

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.

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.

We are happy to share information so artists feel comfortable using our products without compromising their principles.

Neutral colors are those with little or no color saturation. We discuss mixing chromatic neutrals with QoR Watercolors.

The workhorse of our wide range of colors is the finely powdered insoluble particles known as pigment.