Can you replace translucent watercolor paints with water with ordinary watercolor paints?

Watercolor can be made as translucent pigments, but gouache cannot.

There are two types of watercolor pigments, fully transparent watercolor pigments and opaque gouache pigments.

The watercolor has a high degree of transparency, and when the colors overlap, the colors underneath will shine through. The color vividness is not as vivid as color ink, but the coloring is darker, which is suitable for people who like quaint tones. It is not easy to change color even if it is stored for a long time.

Gouache, also known as advertising color, is an opaque watercolor pigment. It can be used for thicker coloring, and there is no unevenness when coloring large areas. Although it is also an opaque watercolor pigment, gouache is generally cheaper than acrylic; However, it is slightly inferior to acrylic in terms of coloring, number of colors, and preservation.

You're talking about the average horsepower pigment is gouache, right? Then you can't achieve the effect you want, the gouache paint contains heavy glue, and the color is very dark and blurry after adding water, and the effect is very poor. You need to buy a box of watercolor paints, horsepower, and a set of 18 colors for a small branch is only 20.

It's even better if you have Windsor, he has less impurities, bright colors, and is a little more expensive, but be careful to make sure that the watercolor paint is not gouache.

Finally, if you paint it with watercolor paper, it will be perfect, it will not wrinkle when exposed to water, and the color will remain bright and transparent.

If you can't buy the above materials, gouache paint can be degummed by hand, which is more troublesome, so I won't write it here. Watercolor paint is still the best.

No, the effect is extremely bad. Gouache paint, which can be diluted with water, has a strong coverage ability, and the painted picture effect is heavy and has a strong sense of volume. However, watercolor pigments are divided into two kinds: solid watercolor pigments and paste watercolor pigments, and their coverage ability is weak, and they generally cannot be modified by repeatedly superimposing colors, and the painted picture effect is transparent and bright.

Watercolor can broadly include transparent watercolor and gouache. In general, it is just transparent watercolor.

If it is gouache, it is not transparent, but covering. (Technically speaking, it is between opaque and translucent). Because there is a powder mixed in the gouache pigment, which makes it opaque.

If it's transparent, watercolor is transparent.

It is explained in two cases:

Yes. Gouache can be referred to as an opaque watercolor and is itself a type of watercolor painting. So gouache pigments are opaque watercolor pigments.

If you are proficient in watercolor and gouache, you can use a combination of the two pigments to create an opaque watercolor with the effect of oil ridge molding.

No. 1. When painting transparent watercolor works, watercolor pigments need to have a high degree of transparency, so as to create the unique rich color effect of watercolor and the slowing down of the thickness and layer, while the gouache pigment powder quality is higher, and the coverage power is correspondingly higher, and it is difficult to create color levels;

2. There is a difference between the color effect of gouache paint wet color and dry color, especially the color saturation of diluted gouache pigment will be reduced, if you can't master the use of this color, the color of reduced saturation will appear very gray on the picture, and the expected color effect can not be achieved;

3. Watercolor pigment is gelatinous, not easy to peel off after drying, gouache pigment is weak gelatinous, in order to achieve a certain color effect, the consistency and thickness of the pigment must be increased, which will cause the pigment to peel off after drying.

So if you want to paint a transparent watercolor, you need to use gouache paint.