Winsor & Newton Pthalo Blue Half Pan Leaving Debris? My Experience + Ask for Yours
When Your Paint Betrays You: A Disaster in Shades of Blue There’s something wonderfully peaceful about a quiet morning with a fresh coffee, my brush in hand, working through a demo from a beloved book. That was me today — happily following along with Watercolor for Beginners by Könnemann , a little gem I picked up on sale ages ago that I keep coming back to. Everything was going smoothly. I was really in the flow and so was the water itself, doing what I wanted it to, with my paper at a 45-degree angle, watching that pigment do whatever it damn well pleased. And then I noticed something wasn’t right. A color I’d recently added to my set — a Winsor & Newton Pthalo Blue half pan — was leaving debris on the paper. Little bits, scattered across my wash like unwanted texture. Was I using rough paper? No. Barring that, my first instinct was to blame the paper towel. I’d been using it throughout to blot excess water from my brush, as well as blot rogue drips from the paper so it seemed...
