Beautiful work. I love the base painting in blue...much like a grisaille technique, that gives the shadows vibrancy!! I also like her use of dark outlines, after painting the subject, giving it that illustrative quality of a pen and wash. ❤️❤️❤️
What a wonderful, delightful and charming lady, with such an infectious smile. Love that bullseye effect too, never seen that before, it works so well. Fantastic work. Graeme and the team a wonderful job as always.
I loved watching you make your plein aire painting. I wish I lived closer so I could come visit and take a class from you. I live in KY and traveling other than art shows at this point in my career is out of the question. I watch Put Color in Your Life faithfully.
I love Linda's work!!! Thanks for having her on the show. I have some M Graham watercolor. Several other brands as well. I grew up not far from the M Graham factory. Its very pigmented, more so than any brand tested by Bruce McCoy at handprint.com. M. Graham watercolors are created with exceptional amounts of pigment in a time-honored binding medium of pure gum arabic and natural blackberry honey. They do have a dispersant also because all watercolor paint have to have a dispersant as an ingredient or the watercolor would not mix well or flow when wet. The only brand that doesn't use ox-gall is Holbein and it seems to not flow much wet into wet. But they do have a touch of the synthetic variety. Ox-gall is a dispersant and every water color paint has to have a touch of this ingredient to make the paint. The honey acts as a humectant, to help the paint retain moisture. In most brands glycerin is used for this. I really LOVE M Graham for those pigments that tend to dry out crumbly in other brands. M Graham never drys hard even when left out for weeks. But if you cover your palette with a seal type lid when you have been using them, and leave to long they will mold. But they never will if left without a seal. They need air and a cover just to keep dust out. ;-)
Renee, you obviously have some close contacts with Graham paints, maybe they would like to sponsor some of their Artists great way to promote themselves, Graeme
Hi Graeme, I have spoken a few times with the founders wife and she invited me to visit. Anyone is welcome to visit the plant and see how their paints are made. It is actually a small family business. I sure you would be welcome to see the factory. Many famous artists like Mary Whyte uses M Graham. This watercolor artist is amazing and very famous here in the USA. www.marywhyte.com/
Wonderful Linda! I have only conversed with Dianna. But she did tell me how she and her husband met, married and moved to Oregon. Yes, she told me the story of where he worked and how he learned to make paint. It would be a good story. He certainly knows what he is doing making paint. I watched a full demo by Ron Stocke that gave me my 1st samples of M Graham paint free in WA when I 1st started painting.
That bull's-eye under painting technique is just brilliant! Do you change the colors depending on what affect you want, or do you generally use the same colors in the same sequence, moving from the center of the bull's-eye to be outside edge?
Honoured to have collaborated on our illustrated children's chapter book, BUSHED?!, with Linda! What a gifted lady! wordwings.wixsite.com/publishing/bushed-1
