Watercolor inks

Some people call them "inks", some people speak of "liquid watercolors" . The most common brands are "Ecoline" made by Royal Talens and "Colorex" made by Pebeo. Both brands are made with dyes and therefore not lightfast. 

Both brands come in small bottles of either 30 or 48 ml. The bottles now have droppers, which makes application easy. I had bought a small selection of Colorex colors more than five years ago and added two bottles in the meantime. I also have a few ecoline colors - fir green, forest green, siena, warm grey and indigo.

Last week I felt like switching to this medium again. As with all liquid mediums color mixing is not that easy. The Ecoline forest green is a real green green - which in my opinion is a bit too much. But add a drop of warm grey, or siena, or chartreuse and it changes to wonderful quite natural greens!