{"id":1173232,"date":"2017-03-22T10:10:28","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T10:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jacksonsart.com\/blog\/?p=1173232"},"modified":"2017-03-22T10:05:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T10:05:00","slug":"schmincke-granulation-medium-special-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jacksonsart.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/22\/schmincke-granulation-medium-special-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"Schmincke Granulation Medium – A Special Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"
Granulation within watercolour is a specific characteristic to certain pigments whereby the pigments clump into granules on the paper when applied as a wash. This is naturally occurring with some pigments and is not a sign of low quality paint. Watercolourists can use certain colours consciously to create this granulation effect within their work, however it has until now been limited to certain colours. As part of Schmincke’s 125 Year Anniversary<\/a> since the creation of Horadam Watercolours<\/a>, they have introduced a Aqua Granulation Medium Spray<\/a> which when applied, creates a granulating effect even for non-granulating colours!<\/h5>\n
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Most of the watercolours within Schmincke’s Horadam Watercolour<\/a> range have an even paint flow, only 22 of the colours are naturally granulating. The Aqua Granulation Spray<\/a> allows for versatility and gives greater control to the artist as when applied it will cause the granulation of colours which do not naturally granulate.<\/p>\n

Artists often encourage granulation within watercolour if they want unpredictable, exciting visual effects within their work. Granulation is particularly useful when creating skies, clouds and landscape scenes.<\/p>\n

The Aqua Granulation Spray is available in a 15ml atomizer – to use it is fairly simple, just press down on the top to release the spray onto watercolour that is still wet to the areas you want to granulate.<\/p>\n

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Ultramarine Finest (non-granulating) and
French Ultramarine (naturally granulating) shown with and without the Aqua granulation spray<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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