I have a nice big pallette of watercolor paints that I squeezed from tubes a long time ago. They were expensive at the time -- Winsor & Newton. But the paints are all probably 20 years old now. Should I try painting with them, or will the pigments be unstable in some way? Should I just get new paints?
2006-12-04 12:11:42 · 6 answers · asked by Wade R 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Painting
As long as the paint has not been exposed to UV light (daylight), excessive heat, or moisture, it should be ok. Those are the only things that would degrade most pigments.
2006-12-04 15:41:06 · answer #1 · answered by joyfulpaints 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2006-12-05 17:35:06 · answer #2 · answered by Artisti 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my wife is a watercolourist, and her paints can be ages old, and she still uses them all without any problems. and some are cheap and some are not so cheap.
2006-12-04 20:32:12 · answer #3 · answered by captsnuf 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They should be ok to use. I would try them. Watercolours are meant to have water added to them, so I would think that unless they were in light that would have caused them to fade that they should be fine.
2006-12-04 23:58:33 · answer #4 · answered by poppet 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
try it.
if the paints were quality (expenive doesn't always = quality) then they should still work. if they don't i bet there would be other ways to use them. create!
2006-12-04 20:15:46 · answer #5 · answered by layla 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Definitely..... they do not last long as Oil paintings do.. :)
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2006-12-08 06:01:51 · answer #6 · answered by Raviraj J 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋