water color tips

Paint, dried in tubes. I'm about out of both cobalt blue and raw sienna, so I slit both tubes to rescue the bit of paint there. There was more of the blue... I wetted it and scraped, brushed what I could into white bowls. For all the work, it may not have been worth it. I did get enough R Sienna to finish my study, and there's enough blue to do another one. I don't think the quality was as good as it was originally. Most of the tubes I have (a lot) are dried so many will just get tossed unless there's enough to do the work. (these are preliminary studies)
My tip here: may not be worth the work to rescue paint from dried WC tubes.
 
Not my own experience, as I haven't tried W&N watercolor myself, but I heard their tube paints don't rewet very well in general.
 
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