Welcome! I’m Carrie Glessner, a watercolor and gouache artist living in northern Vermont. When I was a kid, I was always the one asking “but why?” and basically, I never stopped. That means I’m now a painter with a lot of questions about paint! Luckily, I also love to do research, and I love to write… Sounds like a blog to me!
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Latest Posts:
A Dozen Ways to Have White In Your Watercolor
Having white or light highlights in a watercolor can feel like the ultimate challenge of this medium. Unlike oils, acrylics, or other opaque media, watercolors are generally painted light to dark, so it’s easy to get a painting to the final stages and realize too much of the paper is covered, too much of the…
Replacing Cadmium and Cobalt Watercolors
As we learned in my posts the last two weeks (Are My Paints Poison? and Are My Paints Poison? (Part II), cadmium and cobalt-based pigments are just some of many possible toxic ingredients that can be found in paint; and because the metals are chemically bound to inert substances they are mostly not absorbable by…
Are My Paints Poison? (Part II)
Last week we looked into the questions: “What toxins are in paint?” and “Am I being poisoned by my paint?” Not unsurprisingly, artists and art supply companies are invested in answering these questions, and there are quite a bit of resources available to help identify toxins in paint (there are many) and help artists protect…
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