Schmincke Horadam Watercolor Chart

As promised from my previous post, here are the watercolor charts of the dot cards given to me by Schmincke.

The 12 basic Schmincke Horadam Aquarell

The new 35 Schmincke Horadam colors

Making these color swatches is a dream. The colors are easy to wet and very pigmented, it only took a few swipes. It's also very vibrant and highly transparent, even the paper used is beautiful; not too rough nor absorbent, the color just flows.

Hope you enjoy these color charts and help you in case you want to try Schmincke Horadam watercolors.

P.S. I e-mailed Schmincke for the brand of the paper used for the dot cards, it's Hahnemuhle, Burgund, 250 gsm.The paper is just superb so I think you guys can also give it a try.

Schmincke Horadam Watercolors

Schmincke Horadam watercolors are artist grade watercolors made from Germany. I have heard a lot of good reviews for it as it is used by several professional artists. This piqued my interest but trying it out can be a bit expensive albeit really worth it. Hence, I tried to e-mail (info@schmincke.de) the Schmincke company if it's possible to have some samples or dot cards. Fortunately, it is possible after all. Here's what they sent me.

 

It includes two sets of dot cards, a brochure and a small letter :) telling me to enjoy the dot cards and I certainly will.

Here are the dot cards; one with 12 colors and the other with the new 35 colors.

 

I'm excited to try and see the colors. I'll be posting a swatch and color charts soon for your reference and viewing pleasure. Cheers!

Bitcoin for Art

I'm not really familiar with cryptocurrencies and such, just found out about it when someone randomly posted in Facebook on how he regretted not buying any bitcoin when its price was still low. With that, I began searching about it and learned a few things; on how it is the future in banking, payment and investment, on how its price has significantly rose since it began, now costing around $2,600 per BTC as of this writing. This has made me interested with its possibilities.

I'm not really adept with it yet and just beginning to learn the basics; like first having a wallet to store your bitcoins and something you can use to send and receive payments. For beginners like me, I think online wallets are the way to go as it's easy and convenient. Coinbase and Blockchain.info are among the popular ones. And when you have accumulated quite a few bitcoins which you intend to store for a while, offline wallet is the best method.

I was kind of thinking that this might also be used as payment for art commissions and such so I tried making an account that I can use to experiment and learn more. Here's my bitcoin address: 1EfdmLKqsqzoTeSExBNiWbWSd6dDD5bASv just in case :)

Still got to learn some more about bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general and I hope that I'd also made you aware of this. This forum in reddit would be a nice place to start.