Viviva Watercolor Review

Hello blog friends!

Today I have something a little different for you.

I was contacted a little while ago by 

Viviva Colors

with an offer to send me a set of their

colorsheets to try and review.

To be clear, they did give me these free of charge,

but they have not paid me for this review and 

I will only give an honest review of the product.

When they arrived they were in a large envelope

in this packaging.

I opened it to find this pad of 

colorsheets.  This is a perfect size for

carrying to paint on the go,

or in any setting.

Each color is clearly marked

with it's name and these sheets are very

highly pigmented. 

The color that you see is not the color of the

paint, but once you wet the colorsheet, the 

actual color appears.

There is a protective sheet between the

colorsheets to prevent wet colors from

mixing and sticking together.

I find this very helpful when 

using multiple colors.

There are color swatches at the bottom of each 

page of colorsheets for easy reference.

Now to get to the really fun part.

The painting!

I am, by no means, an artist. I love to 

"play" with watercolors and do different

techniques with them.

But you will not find any fabulous pieces of

artwork done by me.

I'm a crafter who loves playing with watercolors,

and I have to say these are wonderful.

I started to check these out by choosing 4 colors.

I chose Chrome Yellow, Gold Ochre, Burnt Umber and

Burnt Sienna.
I had seen this video about testing out colors and 

followed her lead and drew a series of wavy lines to

follow.  Then I set about painting.

I started at the ends with the strongest saturation of

paint, and using a pallet I added water a little at a time

to lighten the colors, painting a few waves with each 

color, the switching to another.

I have to say, these paints are a joy to work with,

they are very saturated with pigment and go on very smoothly.

You need very little color to achieve a beautiful result.

Once I had the base layer of paint on the 

watercolor paper, I let it dry completely.

I then drew circles on the painting and 

painted them in with colors that contrasted with 

the area they were drawn.  The colors covered

beautifully.

I then drew leaves and used 

Light Green and Sap Green to paint the leaves.

Like I have said, I'm no artist, but I love how this turned out.

I love everything about these paints and am now

obsessed with playing with them and testing them out.

Below you'll find some more tests that I did with my 

Viviva Colorsheets.

I stated out with full strength Persian Blue

on my pallet and with each consecutive wave

I added a little more water.

As you can see the color is beautiful and

lightens gradually.

This was done with Violet,

such a beautiful color.

I wanted to do a small piece for a 

die cut for a card. I used just a swipe of the

Crimson and added water to it to gradually lighten.

You can see that what is left is still full of color.

Another test using 2 colors,

sorry, I'm not sure which colors I used,

I was having too much fun and forgot to take note.

I started at the bottom and added water

then once I was about 1/2 way up the page, I

started adding one of the purple colors.
I love the ombre look that I got.

For these and the ones below, I wanted to clean

up the paint that was on my pallet and made these

background pieces.  I simply sprayed the watercolor paper

with water and dropped in the colors and let them blend.

I also did a little flicking of color from my brush.

All in all, I don't have a bad thing to say about these 

Viviva Colorsheets, they are highly pigmented with 

beautiful colors, are easy to work with, blend like a dream and

are compact and easy to carry and store. 
If you are at all interested in watercolor work, 

either for painting lovely pieces or using them for cards

etc. check out

Viviva Colors

Their price point is very reasonable and you won't be

sorry you gave them a try.

Thank you to Viviva for introducing me to your 

wonderful Colorsheets, I will be using them a lot 

and loving them for a long time.

Thanks for stopping by today,

I hope you have been inspired and will come again soon.

Until then.

try something new!