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Getting comfortable with watercolour
Watercolour can be daunting for beginners and some experienced artists alike.
However, with some easy warm-up activities, you'll begin to understand how watercolour really works and become comfortable with your paints.
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Getting precise
This practice will help to paint around the edges of shapes.
- Paint simple shapes on your dry piece of watercolour paper.
- Paint around these shapes in a different colour. Use different sized brushes - a smaller for more detailed areas and a larger f...
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The wet-on-dry method
Wet paint over a dry area is used for more precise and defined shapes.
- Start with dry paper and pick up some moistened paint with a large brush, then simply paint.
- The opacity or lack of transparency will depend on how much water you mix in.
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The wet-on-wet method
Adding wet paint to a wet surface is used for painting landscapes, simple skies, or soft watercolour washes. It gives a flowy look as we don't have much control over how our paint reacts.
- Wet your brush with plain water and "paint" two rectangles with the clear wat...
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Building up colour
This activity will enable you to build up colour from plain water to a saturated paint mix.
- Start with a dry area of watercolour paper. Put a small amount of water into your palette and a dab of concentrated paint next to it.
- Pick up a bit of the c...
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Creating gradients
In this activity, we will build up colour, working with two colours and transitioning from one to the other.
- Use colours close together on the colour wheel to create harmony, such as green and yellow, blue and purple, red and orange.
- Mix two separa...
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