Simple Watercolor Art

From this early art of exciting trips

Technically, learn watercolor was easy. Add water to watercolors, brush brush onto the paper, and you can simply paint. From this initial artistic journey exciting and full of tricks began.

Here are 10 tips that you can produce work that is more beautiful and avoid mistakes in using watercolors.

1. Feel the Color Sensation

With watercolor, color will always be more concentrated (stronger and darker) while still wet, and the color will be lighter and more subtle when it dries. It's time you learned to distinguish between dark and fading watercolors through practice and experience. If you find the color you brush too faded or pale, then give the color more intense by adding watercolor and reduce the use of water, or add a new layer on the first layer. So optimize your feeling.

2. Perform Test Color

Watercolor dries quickly. So try in the waste paper or a little brush on the edge of the painting before you use it. This way you will know the dark or light shades of color.

3. Water Dry Cat Can dissolve Back (Saluble)

Even watercolor is dry though, can be dissolved again with water. You can remoistures the dry paint with a brush and paint can be used again. That is, you can lift the already dry paint you use on the paper to correct the error coloring, lighten the color of the reduce part of the paper, or even mix it with a new color. But be careful, do not create a solution or swipe too often, because it can damage the surface of your watercolor paper.

4. Characteristically Transparent Watercolour

Watercolors are transparent. You can see from the color layer that you brush, making it nearly impossible to hide mistakes. Needless to resist this nature, but friends and work with this transparent nature.

5. Start of Color Color Light to Dark

Because white watercolor paper comes from the color white, not white watercolor itself, as usual, I recommend that you color from bright areas to dark areas.

6. Use Brush Eligible Wear

If you only have one, the best brushes will help you better than a cheap brush that easily loose and fall out. Brush was good also save you from despair in learning to paint. Good brushes will last shape so you can make a sweep to clear from a single point. Additionally, you can also produce higher quality work. So there's nothing wrong to spend more money to work best.

7. Do not Add Too Much Water

Avoid carelessness adding water after you rinse the brush by wiping using a dry cloth before you use it again. If you are already attaching too much paint on the brush and you want to minimize it, then use a clean dry cloth to gently clean the metal barrette hair brush move to the tip of the brush. This method can prevent hair loss and keep the brush from its original shape.

8. Paper Watercolour it Varies

There are different variants of watercolor paper. What distinguishes not only the thickness, but also the level of surface texture and white color.

9. Stretch Your Paper Thin

The more colors you apply and the thinner the paper you use will increasingly allow the paper you pucker. This can be prevented by stretching your paper in advance as fast as possible.

10. Beware, Fluid Mask

Liquid mask (Masking Fluid) or frisket very useful to block certain areas that do not want us to color. But first consider the quality of the paper you are using.

The following examples of painting images