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Tip 1
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Always get the paper as wet
as you can before you begin applying watercolor paints.
Depending on your environment you may only have 7 minutes
before the paper starts to dry.
Tip 2
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Don't dilute
your paint
to the point of liquid. For painting the beach, the
foreground trees and bushes you want your paint to be like
toothpaste. This will give you a little more control over
the wet in wet process also.
Tip 3
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Paint from wet to dry,
from large shapes to small shapes, and
from light values to dark values. All this is done while the
painting is drying in the first 7 minutes and also as you
apply additional watercolor washes or details.
Tip 4
- Use larger
brushes
such
as 3 inch, 2 inch and 1 1/2 inch flat brushes.
Tip 5 -
Don't try applying the paint uniformly
as this
is not always pleasing to the viewer. Instead add some variety in
your brush strokes, the paint mixture, the size of shapes, the value of
shapes, the number of shapes. "Variety is the spice of
everything nice" Roy John Fuller 2001.
Tip 6
- Apply paint
with your brush quickly.
Don't stay in one spot
going back and forth, move around the paper in light,
sweeping strokes and changing your direction continuously.
It's the variety in your brush strokes you want to focus on.
Always use variety in your painting from the design to the
completion. Always paint trees different heights, width,
texture, values and colors. The same goes for rocks,
mountains, people, clouds and everything else.
Tip - 7
I always do best when I
paint on a slight angle.
You can experiment slanting
your board upward off a flat table by placing a book, etc.
under the outside edge. I usually paint with my
backboard in the vertical position so my students can see
better.
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