Daniel Smith Michael Solovyev’s Master Artist Watercolor (Set of 10 tubes)

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Daniel Smith Michael Solovyev’s Master Artist Watercolor (Set of 10 tubes)

Michael shares more advice for artists using his set. “If you enjoy the process, it doesn’t matter what you have in the end. Be in the moment, don’t focus on having something nice at the end of the experience. The process is where the life is, so enjoy it!”

Michael describes watercolor painting as a water game, where the object is to predict the result, while also recognizing that the painting can change every five minutes.

This is what he loves most about watercolor, that it’s a “live medium,” always moving and changing.

Michael’s palette usually holds nine colors, which is all he needs for 80% of his work. But for this new set, he chose ten colors with a balance of warm and cool hues that will allow artists to develop a robust color family.

Michael words that “Watercolor is like a cat – you can’t force it, you just need to make a deal with it”.

At night, all the cats are grey…

This is a great artist tip from Michael – in other words, to further develop your painting skills, focus on painting shadows.

Painting bright light is rather easy, but shadows require an understanding of grays, or rather a mix of grays with different undertones like yellow, orange or red.

Knowing your grays will help you complete paintings more quickly as well, which is especially good for plein air work.

By mixing two colors from Michael’s set together, such as Indigo and India Yellow. This mix not only yields the perfect color for leaves, it can be altered to match any natural leaf color.

Michael Solovyev’s Master Artist Set includes:

• India Yellow
• Quinacridone Deep Gold
• Quinacridone Sienna
• Alizarin Crimson
• Perylene Violet
• Moonglow
• Cobalt Blue
• Phthalo Blue (Green shade)
• Phthalo Green (Blue shade)
• Indigo

Michael shares more advice for artists using his set. “If you enjoy the process, it doesn’t matter what you have in the end. Be in the moment, don’t focus on having something nice at the end of the experience. The process is where the life is, so enjoy it!”