Must-know watercolour techniques and watercolour painting tips to elevate your skills.
It's important to try to depict objects and materials with their textures included
You'll notice that working in watercolours on a rougher paper does have its advantages. One of the obvious ones is that you don't have to work to hard to achieve a nice texture. That said, it's important to try to depict objects and materials with their textures included. This means using lights and darks as well as wets and drys.
When you apply a dry, more saturated stroke in watercolour painting, you can pull from that stroke with just water. This watercolour technique is a great way to show form and indicate a light source or edge. Apply a stroke using very little water and more pigment. Before the stroke is dry, take a moderately wet brush and pull the colour out from the darker stroke. You can pull the colour quite far depending on how dry that initial stroke is.
Scumbling is a watercolour painting technique that's also used by many oil painters to create soft hues of layered pigment and light. You essentially layer the colour in soft, indirect layers to create the hue and look you're after. Simply lay in semi-wet strokes of paint in watercolour. As you apply more colour, be careful to keep adding water so the colours blend and stay soft. It can be easy to overwork this, producing a muddy look, so less is more.
Watercolour painting requires planning. Think about where you'd like your whites and lights to go before you apply paint. It's vital to keep control of your brush as you paint in the edge of where you'd like your negative space to begin. Load it with semi-wet pigment and paint along the edge of where you'd like your negative space to begin. Then pull the colour away from the edge of the stroke to fill in where you'd like pigment.
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