Mastering Watercolor Glazing: A Comprehensive Guide to Enhance Your Paintings
Mastering Watercolor Glazing: A Comprehensive Guide to Enhance Your Paintings through layers of color. Glazing allows artists to build color and depth while also adding detail to a painting. Glazing is not unique to watercolor painting, but a common technique amongst watercolorists.
What is Watercolor Ground and How Do Painters Use it?
What is watercolor ground and what do artists use it for? I’ll share how to use it in this step-by-step article. Watercolor ground is a type of primer that can be applied to a variety of surfaces, such as canvas, paper, wood, and even metal, to create a surface that is suitable for watercolor painting.
Wet on Dry Watercolor Technique for Beginners
Wet on Dry watercolor painting technique involves applying wet paint and water onto dry paper — at least that’s what Google will tell you. It’s achieved by mixing paint and water on a palette, then applying it to a grade of paper you prefer. Knowing how much water you should apply to your dry paper is the key to success with watercolors.
Watercolor Wet in Wet Technique for Beginners
The Wet in Wet watercolor technique allows artists to explore the freeness in watercolor painting and the unpredictability of using water as an artistic medium. The technique involves wetting the paper using a brush or paper towel and then applying color into the wet areas of the paper. This creates a smooth texture depending on how much water is applied. You can achieve beautiful “washes” by applying water and moving color across the paper. A flat wash is achieved with a flat brush and water. Artists use this technique often with landscapes.