Peachy Watercolors or how to make a peach color

How do you make a peachy color when you only have an eight color box of watercolors? Well I heard someone say once that watercolors are the hardest medium to conquer but it’s not really that hard. When we paint with transparent watercolors (and that is what is in our standard 8 color box), we watch the amount of water we use to make the paint liquid. Controlling the amount of water we use is one step towards mastering this medium. Also, we keep in mind that we have no white color in transparent watercolor. Our water is our “white” color. We need to keep our water clean.

To make a peachy color from watercolor you will need an eight color box of watercolors, watercolor paper- 140 lb. cold press, 1 round soft watercolor brush (I like to use a #10 Crayola), a container with water, and paper towels and a sponge.

First dampen your paper with water, using your sponge. Don’t use too much. Just wet it enough to glisten.

Always begin to paint with your lightest color. Put some yellow paint on your brush and dab some yellow on your damp paper.

Wash your brush out in the container of water. Dry it on the paper towel.

Next get a little orange paint. Dab and mix it in with the yellow on your paper. Wash and dry your brush.

Get a tiny bit of red paint, dab, and mix it in with the yellow orange on your paper. Wash and dry.

This next step is the hard part. Get a teensy weensy bit of blue paint and mix it in the yellow, orange, red paint mix.

Voila! Peach color!

Now you can paint a watercolor landscape of a peach orchard or a basketful of ripe Georgia peaches!

Have fun with your watercolors! Mizz Mac

A Georgia Peachy Blog

The peaches are flowing in Middle Georgia! Our peach farms are packing their products to ship out! Did you know the Peach Festival cooked the world's largest peach cobbler this past weekend? Here is my grandmother's favorite recipe: 

Now all good Southern cooks are dump cooks which means we use approximately the right amount of ingredients and then change things as we see fit. My grandmother cooked with a gas stove that had no temperature control so check on the cobbler after 30 minutes cooking time! And don't forget to add a dollop of vanilla ice cream! 

Here's another Peachy tidbit- have you heard of the Eat A Peach album by the Allman Brothers? The Allman Brothers were brought to Macon, Georgia in the early 70's by their manager, Phil Walden of Capricorn Records. (Phil was my cousin's high school sweetheart and loved pulling my pigtails!) Before they got big and famous, the Allman Brothers would jam on Sunday afternoons in Central City Park. Wonderful Peachy Music!!

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Watercolors/spill free paint for children's art projects

Last week I bought my grandchildren a “new to me” watercolor painting product that advertised no spills, no water needed, etc. The water is in the brush! So I bought one to try out with my 4 year old granddaughter. She loved it at first until she mixed all the colors in the yellow and forgot to clean the brush on the cleaning pad. This led to extreme frustration on her part. So I cleaned the cleaning pad and washed out the yellow.  The brushes look like markers which may have confused her. She is used to painting with a real brush and dipping said brush into a cup of water to change colors. So this grandma/ art teacher gets her granddaughter a cup of water, and all frustration is gone.  Here is what she painted: a dragon that roars!!

My advice is if you buy one of these products and your child/student/grandchild is used to painting with a real brush and uses the dip-in-water-dry-the-brush-on sponge/paper towels-dip-in-paint painting technique, save yourself from a headache and a frustrated child and give the child a cup of water!! Mizz Mac