{"id":502,"date":"2026-08-06T10:08:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T10:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quailcreations.ca\/?p=502"},"modified":"2026-08-06T10:08:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T10:08:39","slug":"new-paint-lets-swatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quailcreations.ca\/?p=502","title":{"rendered":"New Paint &#8211; Let&#8217;s Swatch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"614\" height=\"634\" src=\"https:\/\/quailcreations.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Discord_eP2b2x8Mja.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quailcreations.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Discord_eP2b2x8Mja.png 614w, https:\/\/quailcreations.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Discord_eP2b2x8Mja-291x300.png 291w, https:\/\/quailcreations.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Discord_eP2b2x8Mja-416x430.png 416w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I asked around a few friends who do watercolour painting for paint brand suggestions. I&#8217;ve been using Winsor &amp; Newton (pictured on the right) but they are student grade paints, and are not lightfast. Not a HUGE issue as I&#8217;m not selling any originals, but I wanted to try out some professional grade paints. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of my mutuals suggested I try &#8216;White Nights&#8217; which I had never heard of. They&#8217;re a brand from Russia, and quite a bit cheaper than Danielle Smith, which is who I was going to go with. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My set arrived yesterday, and I spent some time swatching and getting to know the colours. Beautiful pigments, they behaved how I would expect for watercolour. Once I got the swatching all done I decided to do an art tutorial project with them, which I will post tomorrow. Overall, I was really impressed with these paints. I haven&#8217;t started mixing much with them yet, but that will come next. I wanted to keep the pallet minimal so that I can continue to work colour theory and learn how to mix colours myself. I&#8217;ll get there! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I asked around a few friends who do watercolour painting for paint brand suggestions. I&#8217;ve been using Winsor &amp; Newton (pictured on the right) but they are student grade paints, and are not lightfast. Not a HUGE issue as I&#8217;m not selling any originals, but I wanted to try out some professional grade paints. One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quailcreations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quailcreations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quailcreations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quailcreations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quailcreations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quailcreations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":504,"href":"https:\/\/quailcreations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions\/504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quailcreations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quailcreations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quailcreations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}