tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220865105573981879.post9014074480255097964..comments2024-03-28T14:13:13.039-07:00Comments on Fueled by Clouds & Coffee: The Dry Test: Durer, Museum, SupracolorMiataGrrlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00727208043312788510noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220865105573981879.post-5613304923976820942018-12-19T21:15:25.596-08:002018-12-19T21:15:25.596-08:00I’ve really been enjoying your posts regarding the...I’ve really been enjoying your posts regarding the Albrecht Durer watercolor pencils, and this test including the Museum Aquarelle. I have full s sets of both brands. When I first got my MA several months ago, I made a color chart right away. I was so excited, but after charting I felt I might have made a huge mistake. Several of the colors seemed whimpy...not much color pay off, and I felt that there were many colors too similar to each other. Also, since I’m so used to the ADs, the names confused me a bit, and the fact that not all the pencils had an actual color name on the barrel was frustrating. For instance Prussian Blue 159 looks more like Albrecht Durer’s Indigo. Anyway, after reading your posts, I decided to give them another try. My original color chart was done in an S&B Epsilon sketchbook, but this time I tried them on Alpha paper and I quickly saw a huge difference in color payoff. Over the last couple of days I’ve been putting together a 25 pencil palette of MA that is comparable to my 25 pencil AD palette. It’s helps me to igonore the names, and just go by hue and number. I am liking them much more now, and willl be giving them a good, solid sketching tryout in the next few days and weeks. I do love the the smooth, butter lay down. My only complaints now are I don’t much like the pencils that are 50% or 10%, etc of a hue. It’s seems like they added white to the pigment or something and they seem really opaque in an odd way, but maybe with more use and experience I will come to appreciate them. The one pencil of the entire set that I found really weird was Violet 120. It is so dry and scratchy feeling and it seems difficult to get a color payload from it. Maybe it’s a dud? Thank you for the helpful posts! WWendihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15842526080242269820noreply@blogger.com