Mixed Up Saturday

 

Good Saturday Morning Ladies,

I hope that you are all having a nice relaxed weekend, I think ours will be more adventurous than relaxing with Harley dog in the house!  He's already tested us to the limit,  I just don't get it because he doesn't scavange because he is hungry, it wouldn't matter if you had just fed him.  Yesterday for example we always give the cats a bit of chopped up ham at lunchtime (a habit that started by paul giving milo a little treat while making his lunch, now they sit and wait from about 1pm Onwards) anyway we took the cats their ham upstairs ( they are banished upstairs for their safety as they do not get along with Harley,  they were our only pets until Harley arrived and chased the life out of them, they must have long memories as the hate is as strong as ever today).  So we gVe harley some ham too, so that he didn't feel excluded, so we were sat eating our lunch and Paul heard a rustling noise, he came into the office and he had had my bin out from under my desk, I had put an empty packet of salted pretzels in the bin on Wednesday and he must have been able to smell it because he emptied the whole bin out, die cut bits, inky low tack tape bits of damp kitchen roll from mopping up my watercolour mess and baby wipes were all across the floor, he was sat licking the inside if the pretzel bag!  It took ages picking all the bits up, that wasn't the worst incident but I will spare you those details!! 

Pigment Powder Comparison

I'm not entirely sure how I ended up with 4 different sets of Pigment Powders ( actually I have 3 other sorts but only a couple of colours in each).  The four types I have a good selection of are Brusho, Luscious (IndigoBlu), Honey Doo Pigment Powders and Pixie Powders. 

I will say that one big difference is that that Brusho don't have Mica in, they are pure pigment, the others say that they are highly pigmented too but we will let the comparison show us. 

I used the Powders in 2 different ways:  

1.  Sprinkling Powders onto watercolour card that has been spritzed with water.  (I used the same card and same number of 'spritzes' on each piece for fairness) 

2.  I mixed each if the powders with water to use as paint to colour flowers and a leaf.  Again all 4 were stamped on same paper and embossed the same.  

This is the powders sprinkled onto watercolour card that I had spritzed with water.

Brusho

Luscious 

HoneyDoo 

Pixie

I tried to get the same amount of powders on each piece, I will say that Brusho & Pixie powders aren't as easy to control when it comes to sprinkling them.

After adding a little more water

Brusho

Luscious 

HoneyDoo 

Pixie 

These are all well spritzed and ready to dry.

The Dry Results 

Brusho 

Luscious 

HoneyDoo 

Pixie

The results show quite a difference,  the Brusho & Pixie Powders have much stronger pigment,  the Luscious hardly look any different to the dry powder, you get a little shimmer from them but the colour is very muted.  The Brusho is the most intense and I do love how the colours in Brusho move.  HoneyDoo was stronger than Luscious but the Pixie powders beat them having both the strong pigment and shimmer. 

Using the Powders to Paint

Brusho

Luscious 

HoneyDoo 

Pixie powders 

I found similar results with using them as paint to be honest. 

The Brusho's were lovely to paint with, the colour was intense, I did find that once you had laid the colour down it wasn't 'easy' to move it on watercolour card.  I was pleased with the result though.

The Luscious powders were stronger when used as paint, I liked the interference colours too, as you can see on one of the petals once the paint has dried it was hard to shift it with water.

The HoneyDoo pigment powders were nice to paint with, the strength of colour was good and the shimmer was lovely.  

The Pixie powders were lovely to paint with,  the colours were super strong, that orange colour was lovely.  The shimmer was incredible too. 

I tried to use colours that were similar or as close as I could get it with what I had. 

Well, what do you think? 

I think my favourite was Brusho,  followed by Pixie Powders then HoneyDoo and lastly Luscious,  I may need to research more into the Luscious techniques,  I wanted to use them all in exactly the same way.  I would use these more to create backgrounds than I would to use to colour anything, which is why I chose in the order that I did.  

I hope that you find the comparison helpful, especially if you are thinking of buying some, remember you could also add shimmer to the Brushos if that was the finish you were looking for.  So I find them more versatile, I believe you can buy other things to add to Brusho to make it more versatile too.

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I hope that you all have a lovely weekend, 

Love & hugs to all of you,

Sandra

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