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Watercolor: Leaving white spaces
The less saturated with color your watercolor painting is, the more it can breathe! This is why it is important to leave white spaces, that is, to set aside areas where the white of the paper shows.
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Watercolor: Trying out different textures
Parchment paper, plastic wrap and aluminum foil… bring some of your kitchen essentials into your studio and create backgrounds with incredible textures!
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Watercolor: Salvaging your mistakes
Contrary to preconceived notions, it is entirely possible to fix watercolor mistakes. Even lost causes can be rescued, using several techniques, some of them kind of radical!
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Watercolor: Doing a graduated wash
To liven up a sky or a background, or add style to major color areas: the graduated wash is THE technique! It lets you modulate a color's intensity by diluting it with more or less water.
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Watercolor: Doing a flat wash
Are you just getting started with watercolors? The wash is THE essential process to know and master!
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Using watercolor pencils
watercolor pencils (or watercolor crayons) resemble ordinary color pencils, but, when diluted with water, they can produce a broad number of pictorial effects.
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Doing a Watercolor portrait: shadows, light and facial expression
Some simple formulas can help you put expression in a face with watercolors: working in a large format and making use of white spaces, for example.
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Watercolor: Seascape under stormy sky
A seascape under a stormy sky, with its strong contrasts, is an excellent exercise for learning to hone your effects: Transparency, shading, reflections, the interplay of shadow and light, motion, etc. Can be reused with any subject!
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Watercolor paper
Strong water absorbency, a handsome shade of white, and a texture with a finer or coarser grain are the major qualities of watercolor paper. But do you know how they are obtained? Decoding.
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Cleaning and maintaining your watercolor materials
In order to have your material ready for use and to keep it in good shape over the long run, you need to make sure to clean and maintain it. Watercolor is a practical technique that cleans up easily: all you need is some soap and water!
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