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David lives near Bath. He is a landscape painter, working with Watercolours and water-based media. He is passionate about watercolour, with its fluidity and uncontrollable nature; finding how the medium can be used to express and convey a feeling for the moods and atmosphere of his local landscape.
David is a landscape painter, working with watercolours and water-based media. He was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water colours in 2011 and is currently serving on the RI Council as the Honorary Treasurer.
Jan 26, 2018 · David is from the area near Bath, England. And I would definitely say his work reflects the energy of the landscape in that area. Some of his work teeters on the edge of abstraction, as you'll see, but other works are clearly in the storied vein of British watercolor landscape work.
David A Parfitt RI is an award-winning artist who paints en plein air and is a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour.
- What Are Qor Watercolours?
- What Golden Say About Qor Watercolours
- David's Top Findings
- Making A Colour Wheel
- How Do Qor Compare?
- Colour Comparisons
- Testing For A Three Colour Wash
- Qor Watercolours in Action
- Final Thoughts
- About David
QoR Watercolours (pronounced ‘core’) are made by Golden Artist Colors and there are 83 colours in the range, including three iridescents. The significant difference between these and other watercolours is that QoR use an exclusive binder, Aquazol®, rather than gum arabic. Details about Aquazol can be found by CLICKING HERE
I do not pretend to understand the science but it is this binder that is at the heart of these ‘modern watercolours’ and allows QoR to claim the following: 1. Vibrant, intense colours that stay brilliant even after they dry 2. Exceptionally smooth transitions, flow and liveliness on paper 3. Excellent re-solubility in water and glazing qualities 4....
The paints are marketed as high-quality artists’ materials and the 11ml tubes have a classy look and feel.The pigment, lightfastness rating and opacity symbols are clearly shown, along with the series number (1 to 4).Squeezed from the tube the paints are all consistently viscous but not overly so, which minimises any danger of spillage/leakage during transportation, which is especially useful if using them en p...In testing vibrancy and flow I made a small colour wheel (see below) on Langton paper and a three-colour wash on Whatman paper.A small colour wheel painted to look at vibrancy and how the colours mix together Colours used (clockwise from top): permanent alizarin crimson, quinacridone red, Indian yellow, cadmium yellow medium, manganese blue, Prussian blue and French ultramarine blue
Next I made some comparison sheets (see below) and detected a number of variations with ‘my colours’ so detailed the pigments used in the table below. It only goes to highlight that when choosing one’s colours it is essential to pay attention to the pigments. A QoR colour and pigment chart is downloadable by CLICKING HERE Some of the watercolours o...
French ultramarine blue QoR vs Winsor & Newton Permanent alizarin crimson QoR vs Winsor & Newton Prussian blue QoR vs Daler-Rowney Quinacridone red QoR vs Daler-Rowney Raw sienna QoR vs Winsor & Newton
A simple wash to see how the colours flow and mix together I used manganese blue, permanent alizarin crimson and Indian yellow to create a simple wash to see how the colours flowed and mixed together.
Ultimately the only way to test a range of watercolours is to make paintings – I tried three. Wet Hill, QoR watercolour on Arches Aquarelle 300lb, (56x76cm) In Wet Hill, I liked the way the colours mixed together, whether it was dry-into-wet or wet-into-wet. Really heavy applications of colour dried quite flat with hardly any sheen. In addition, wh...
These are high-quality artist materials and I will consider using them in my palette.I especially like the way I can apply paint heavily, almost neat, and it dries quite uniformly.The paints re-wet easily after drying on the palette (a bonus for plein-airwork) and they also seem to ‘lift’ from the paper a little easier, too.The colours are strong and interestingly I did seem to use less paint than normal, bearing out QoR’s claim of ‘more density of colour’. Quantifying exactly how much is difficult but what I can say...David Parfitt is an elected member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours (RI) and he has won the Neil Meacher Sketching Prize (2011) and the Frank Herring Award (2014) in their exhibitions. David has exhibited widely, including with the RI and the Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, and the Sunday TimesWatercolour Competition. www...
Aug 10, 2016 · David, congratulations on being selected for The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 2016, could you tell us a bit about your shortlisted piece 'Wetland Blues'? Thank you, I am honoured to have been selected for this prestigious exhibition with my painting Wetland blues. It is pure watercolour, on a full sheet of Arches Cold Pressed paper.…
Mar 25, 2021 · David A Parfitt RI speaks about his paintings in the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours 209th Exhibition. View the exhibition online now: https://www.mallgalleries.org.uk/what...
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