DANIEL SMITH Watercolour - 15mL - Sleeping Beauty Turquoise Genuine Category_LarryPOST/Notebooks & Journals/Specialty Journal

DANIEL SMITH Watercolour - 15mL - Sleeping Beauty Turquoise Genuine Category_LarryPOST/Notebooks & Journals/Specialty JournalA unique and vibrant blue, the gemstone comes from Sleeping Beauty Mountain in Arizona where we found a deposit that lives up to our high expectations. It is lightfast and permanent, with none of the transient colour fade that plagues most turquoise. Turquoise has a unique porous nature that produces granular washes. Juicy washes flow from the brush and dry brush work has the intense texture found only in a mineral pigment. Traditional mineral

using methods derived from ancient Mayan chemistry

Colour rich and very portable

sunlit radiance

and when painted on white paper

Color: Carmine Red

a Lunar Black wash resembles a marbled moonscape

combines with other hues without a loss of intensity or transparency

With extreme granulation it’s capable of creating a rugged weathered look of years gone by or capturing the delicacy of a new spring lavender flower

becomes a brillant

do it in small portions and wait

a deep azure lake

fence posts and old buildings are fine candidates for this pigment and approach