Royal Talens: Ecoline on Wood.
I'm sitting here thinking about how I should do this. I don't want to rate the products I review. If you want to read customer reviews, go somewhere else. This is about a process -- a journey. I want to tell you what it was like using this medium and exploring with it? Would I recommend it? Why would I recommend it? Or why wouldn't I? There's something for everyone. And when it comes to art supplies, I've noticed they're a lot like instruments -- the sound they produce is dependent on every tool you bring to the table, from the brush, to canvas.
With the Ecoline watercolors, I chose to try them on a wood canvas. I knew it was going to be a tricky medium. I knew the wood was going to take the color and make it bloom beyond the boundaries of where I was trying to control it. Watercolor "blossoms," really well on wood. You get a slight 'wet on wet,' technique pretty easily. (I hear your minds going in the gutters, you pervs -- nuh uh uh!).
One thing that really surprised me were the brush pens. I really didn't have too high of expectations for using them on wood, and honestly, I was a little afraid the wood might prove to be to abrasive, but they worked wonderfully!
I highly recommend both -- even the blender pen pulled off some amazing witchcraft stunts when I needed to smooth and lift some areas of paint.
I'll be doing another review of these on actual watercolor paper. The only problem I had was with the brush pens -- and that was that I couldn't put color directly from the brush pen down onto an acrylic block, pick it up with my paint brush/water brush, and then transfer it to the wood. The watercolors from the acrylic block to the canvas washed out and lightened way too much.
But, as I was saying earlier, I'm pretty sure that's because of the combination of tools I was using and the wood canvas. I'll definitely be adding Ecoline products to my supply and I look forward to using them on regular watercolor paper.
Cheers, m'lovelies!
Winter
Note: I also used Royal Talens Gouache for the white and some of the black and green. I don't have a lot of it, so I'm not sure if it's fair to review based on availability couple tubes and limited experience, but with what I have -- I quite like it. It took a bit of layering to get the white really opaque, but that's been my experience when putting it on top of watercolor. Watercolor wants to lift so easily.
With the Ecoline watercolors, I chose to try them on a wood canvas. I knew it was going to be a tricky medium. I knew the wood was going to take the color and make it bloom beyond the boundaries of where I was trying to control it. Watercolor "blossoms," really well on wood. You get a slight 'wet on wet,' technique pretty easily. (I hear your minds going in the gutters, you pervs -- nuh uh uh!).
One thing that really surprised me were the brush pens. I really didn't have too high of expectations for using them on wood, and honestly, I was a little afraid the wood might prove to be to abrasive, but they worked wonderfully!
I highly recommend both -- even the blender pen pulled off some amazing witchcraft stunts when I needed to smooth and lift some areas of paint.
I'll be doing another review of these on actual watercolor paper. The only problem I had was with the brush pens -- and that was that I couldn't put color directly from the brush pen down onto an acrylic block, pick it up with my paint brush/water brush, and then transfer it to the wood. The watercolors from the acrylic block to the canvas washed out and lightened way too much.
But, as I was saying earlier, I'm pretty sure that's because of the combination of tools I was using and the wood canvas. I'll definitely be adding Ecoline products to my supply and I look forward to using them on regular watercolor paper.
Cheers, m'lovelies!
Winter
Note: I also used Royal Talens Gouache for the white and some of the black and green. I don't have a lot of it, so I'm not sure if it's fair to review based on availability couple tubes and limited experience, but with what I have -- I quite like it. It took a bit of layering to get the white really opaque, but that's been my experience when putting it on top of watercolor. Watercolor wants to lift so easily.
Published on September 08, 2017 14:37
No comments have been added yet.
Winter Pennington's Blog
- Winter Pennington's profile
- 306 followers
Winter Pennington isn't a Goodreads Author
(yet),
but they
do have a blog,
so here are some recent posts imported from
their feed.

