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Watercolour Painting Tips from the encyclopedia of watercolour techniques

• Colours in nature are seldom perfectly flat and uniform, and it is often necessary to lay a wash that shifts in tone from dark to light or one that contains two or more different colours.

• A gradated wash shades from dark to light, and is laid in the same way as a flat wash, the only difference being that more water is added to the pigment for each successive line of paint.

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Watercolour Painting Tips from Crawshaws watercolour studio :

• When you are out, screw up your eyes and look at a tree. The mass of small branches (the feathery ones) will show only as a tonal area, not as individual branches.

• Paint water with horizontal brush strokes, so that any underpainting or paper that shows through accidentally or by design gives the impression of moving water.

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Watercolour Painting Tips from Watercolours a step by step guide

• When you are painting buildings, beware of using hard outlines to define individual bricks and stones, as the result could look awkward and unnatural. Use a neutral tone - never black - to paint a very thin line along the shadow edge, then dampen your brush with water and run it along the line to soften and break it up.

• By spraying watercolour paint on to watercolour paper using a plant mister spray, you can create a convincing stained wall surface.

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Watercolour Painting Tips from painting in watercolour

• Color is one of the topics which must be studied in detail by any aspiring artist. It is a complex subject, made more so by the difficulty of predicting how pigments will react when mixed. Only constant experimentation with different paints and papers and personal observation, making careful notes of the results you achieve, will enable you to develop your knowledge and skill.

• To make a successful painting it is important to understand the range and limitations of your palette and the color theories and effects involved in using a variety of colors in certain ways.

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Watercolour Painting Tips from step by step art school - watercolour

• On a bright sunny day there will be a lot of contrast between the areas in full light and the shadows, which will be dark with clearly delineated outlines. So, if you want to suggest brilliant sunshine introduce a few contrasty shadows.

• Collect jam jars and coffee jars - they make excellent water containers.

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Watercolour Painting Tips from a brush with art :

• Half close your eyes to help you see the patterns formed in water by relections of the surroundings

• Always have your colours in the same position in your box and keep your box in the same position when you work. There's enough to concentrate on without worrying about where you last left the Yellow Ochre!

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Watercolour Painting Tips from watercolour troubleshooter

• Often, it is the small details that make or mar a painting. It is all to easy to overwork a specific area, so even when you paint fairly detailed objects try to follow the maxim 'for looser work, use larger brushes'.

• It is essential to vary the height and bulk of a hedge to prevent it looking like a flat surface.

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Tips from Painting Towns and Cities :

• People in cites are usually moving ... The head is one-seventh of the body, and is usually one-third of the width of the shoulders. The length of the leg is approximately half the height and the suspended arms extend about halfway down the upper leg.

• Figures should be an integral part of the cityscape from its original conception.

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Watercolour Painting Tips from watercolours a complete beginners guide

• The three primary colours are red, yellow and blue. They are the three colours in your palette that cannot be produced by mixing any other colours together.

• Watercolour paint is translucent. This means that, when the paint is laid on to paper, any underlying colour will show through it.

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Watercolour Painting books by Terry Harrison - some with sample pages

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