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Essential Colors for Your Watercolor Paintings: Birds, Wildlife & Just About Everything Else
28 Mar 2026

Essential Colors for Your Watercolor Paintings: Birds, Wildlife & Just About Everything Else

by Matt Bohan | posted in: Step-by-Step | 0

With hundreds of options available, what are the watercolor paints you actually need? This video goes through the 15 colors I find to be essential. It also highlights a few other handy pigments that save time mixing—plus three colors you … Continued

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