I have a lot more projects planned to make with these rainbow colored blocks like this DIY Waldorf Square and this Tetris-inspired Puzzle Cube. You can also mix and dilute colors for more variety if you like. I liked having both brands (Sax’s fuchsia, red-violet, and blue-violet are gorgeous) but would choose Sargent if I had to choose only one. I hope my liquid watercolor brand comparison helps you decide which you would like to use. The set also comes with brown and black but I did not use it.Īs you can see, making your own rainbow colored blocks is pretty easy to do. The photo on the bottom left has the colors in the following order from left to right yellow, orange, red, magenta, violet, blue, green and Turq-blue. ![]() If the link above does not work try this Sargent liquid watercolor set that contains g reen, brown turquoise, black, magenta, orange, blue, red, yellow, and violet. Update: I can not find the exact set I used on Amazon for this comparison. I ended up coloring more blocks with the Sargent colors. But there were a few of the Sax colors that I loved as well. Overall I preferred how the Sargent colors looked and worked. In the photos below you can see how the Sargent liquid watercolors looked on the blocks when dry. The photo on the bottom left has the colors in the following order from left to right yellow-orange, coral, fuchsia, pink, red-violet, blue-violet, and yellow-green. The set I received had two red-violets with no blue-green so you will not see it below. They claim that the set comes with eight, 8oz colors–blue-green, red-violet, blue-violet, fuchsia, coral, pink, yellow-orange, and yellow-green. In the photos below you can see how the Sax liquid watercolors looked on the blocks when dry. ![]() If using more than one color at a time like I did, make sure you have another rag to quickly wipe the color off of the tongs before dipping tongs in next color.Ĥ. Use tongs to take blocks out of color and place on an old towel to dry. (Below I share pictures of how each brand of watercolors looked when the blocks were dry.)ģ. They can be taken out as soon as they are completely colored. Drop block in each color and swirl it around until the wood is saturated with color. Place watercolors in canning jars to color the blocks.Ģ.
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