swatches of colours for Toulouse urban sketchers symposium based on the colours suggested by Daniel Smith
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For the Urban Sketching Symposium in Toulouse – how to create colours you don’t have

Daniel Smith published their suggestions for painting Toulouse street scenes during the Urban Sketches Symposium. So I experimented with how to mix these from the colours I already have in my watercolour palette.

Watercolour exercise for layering and wet in wet and creating blooms and hard edges.
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Liz Steel Watercolour Course – Lesson 2

Continuing with a new week from the 2026 run through of Liz Steel’s watercolour course by doing the swatching exercises for four of our favourite colour mixing combinations.