Study: building a figure from shadow shapes alone
The most transferable thing about Sargent's watercolours is not the brushwork.
Violet
The daylight shadow family.
4 published
Study 300 gsm · Dry
A nocturne palette: three dark pigments and one warm accent
Night paintings fail in one of two ways: they are too dark to read, or they are daytime paintings with a blue filter.
Cobalt violet and the shadow problem
Shadows in watercolour are not darker versions of the local colour and they are not grey.
Damp paper: the eight-to-twenty second window
Between soaked paper and dry paper there is a state that most painters never deliberately aim for.