Maine Watercolors Color

Apr 12, 2013 | Watercolor

Across the Sea

Maine Watercolors Color

How to use water when painting in watercolor is what I must study again everytime I have taken a break from this medium. Water — how much water and how much pigment, when to add some water, when to take out water, when to add more pigment to watered pigment on the paper, when to use gravity when to use a brush.

A big benefit of water is th edges it creates or miimalizes. As the water dries, edges can be minimalized so that no hard ones remain. This look of softness engendered works for clouds, rain waves .. for edges are so varied around water.

Daffodils watercolor

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The edges in this painting needed to be as varied as possible the harder ones of flower petals and tops of leaves the softer depths of greens and of course, the water laden clouds.