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kawera
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Watercolor Basics
Don't ruin your acid-free paper by using tap water, use bottled water for everything, including cleaning your brushes (valid for every water-based technic like acrylic, tempera, guache...).
CharlesW
on June 15, 2022
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By "bottled water" do you happen to mean "distilled water"?
waynesonfire
on June 15, 2022
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kawera
on June 16, 2022
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No, just mineral water.
tux1968
on June 15, 2022
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Isn't most bottled water essentially the same as tap water? What is the problem with tap water that needs to be avoided?
stewbrew
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This really depends on where you live. Consider yourself lucky if it is the same.
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Bottled water typically doesn't have chlorine, through I'm not sure what that does to water-coloring.
waynesonfire
on June 15, 2022
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or floride -- oh crap, actually, i'm wrong. lots of bottled water has floride.
https://fluoridealert.org/content/bottled-water/
gilleain
on June 15, 2022
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what does fluoride do to watercolors?
Tao3300
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It turns it into Communist propaganda, Mandrake.
panzagl
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And impurifies our precious bodily fluids.
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