The Schmincke Bronzes contain real metal pigments and come in formulations suitable for painting in oil, acrylic or watercolour, enabling you to add anything from a really rich gold through to a shiny silver to your paintings. Best known for her loose and lively watercolours, we invited Jane Betteridge to experiment with the Schmincke Aqua Bronzes, which are perfect for adding glossy metal effects to watercolour paintings. Jane Betteridge was enchanted by Schmincke’s Genuine Artist Bronzes describing them as “little pots of magic fairy dust that really add another dimension to a painting”.
I prepared a piece of mount card by sticking on cotton thread, honesty seeds and seed heads and a few skeleton leaves with PVA glue. Go exploring in your house and garden to see what you can find. Next, I applied Daniel Smith Watercolour Ground all over the surface covering all the things I’d stuck on earlier and then left this overnight to dry thoroughly.
With the mount card completely dry, I wetted the surface all over with clean water and starting with the Quinacridone Gold began dropping in all of the colours working my way down the paper, allowing them to blend wet into wet. This was then left to dry.
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I used the end of a palette knife to transfer the very fine particles of the Copper, Silver and Gold bronzing powders into an old
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