Terre Verte Art & Jewellery
Gayle Howard Designer
tips and tricks for better watercolour painting
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Watercolour painting is hugely popular. I learned how back in art school. Our teacher introduced it by teaching the "wet on wet" technique. It is a simpler way to get the colour on the paper. This method does not depend on being able to draw a scene or an object, hense a very satisfactory result will emerge.
On the left of the screen you can see a most recent watercolour painting that I painted and it became particularly dense as I drew over the washes to create the flowers and leaves and although this work seems disjointed it still has captured many techniques plus drawings of flowers.
Materials are first. You will need watercolour paper, set of colours (I prefer Cotman watercolour pocket box), and you will need 3 watercolour brushes ( #12 #4 and #2 ) to start adding a soft lead pencil 2B and Masking tape plus a smooth flat board or a piece of glass to mount your wet paper on. I took apart an old picture frame to use the glass for this process and I carefully taped the edges with masking tape to keep any possible cuts away.
I want to give you the simplest instruction first so that you are able to get the feel of the process and enjoy what you are doing. There is always time to add more detail or structure to your picture after your initial experiences with this wet on wet technique gets you started.
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