What Color Wednesday Answer: Garnet Genuine

What Color Wednesday Answer!

Garnet Genuine, DANIEL SMITH PrimaTek Watercolor!

Garnet Genuine Watercolor has all the warmth and allure of the January birthstone. This PrimaTek color is a gorgeous, warm, reddish-orange, similar in hue to Quinacridone Burnt Scarlet, but with more granular texture. Try mixing it with Cerulean Blue for beautiful mauves and grays. It reticulates wonderfully and creates unexpected surprises in washes.

About Daniel Smith Swatch Drawdown
The Daniel Smith Drawdown is a tool used by our chemists to test the color batch in the lab before moving onto the production floor to be made. What you see on the drawdown is the paint being mixed with distilled water in a ten to one ratio (10:1). This is 10 parts distilled water by weight to one part paint. Once the paint and distilled water are mixed the chemist then loads a brush with the paint by dipping it into the mixture one time. The chemist then proceeds to do a wash on the upper portion of the drawdown. What you see is a wash completed by loading the brush only once.

Next, a new brush is used and again loaded with the same mixture. The chemist then starts from the top left and makes brush lines until reaching the end of the paper which is bottom right. This gradient shows what the paint looks like from first putting it down until the point the brush is almost or fully unloaded. The paper used for drawdowns is Lana Aquarelle 140# cold-processed watercolor paper.

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