Well I have heard from several of you regarding washed out color! So today our first chat is going to be about preparing your palette for painting.
When you set up your palette, make sure you squirt out lots of color and do this several hours if not a day before you intend to use it. Paint right out of the tube is very goopy. Let it dry. Then reactivate it by spraying it with water and mushing your brush over the pile of paint. 
Ha! You cant see all the dog hairs in my paint!!
(See how nice and wet it is but the water and pigment are still separated. I will go in with my brush and mush and mush until paint and water are mixed. ) The I will test the depth of color on a palette piece of paper.
“What is that? “you may ask, “A Palette Piece of Paper (PPP)”? It is a spare piece of paper just like the one you are painting on but where you can test your colors and the moisture content of your brush BEFORE you apply it to your good sheet of paper!
The use your WWT ( white wiping towel) to suck extra moisture out of your brush. ( Towels are a whole other wealth of painting tools we will discuss… I have 5-6 towels with different weaves which create different textures when dabbed on paint!!!) But you always need one beside you when you are painting to suck some of that drippy water out of your brush!
Now get ready gather some materials together! Can you find a piece of screen, a squirt bottle, some salt and several pots of water. Tomorrow we are going to go on a painting journey.
Activate your colors really well! Spray them tonight!