Make Your Watercolors Sparkle

If you’re accustomed to painting with oils or acrylics, you can easily add sparkling highlights any time you choose. However, with watercolor it’s a little more complicated. You need to plan those highlights and white areas ahead of time to …
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How To Fix Watercolor Mistakes

Watercolor is a little more challenging than working with oils or acrylics. If you make an error with either of those mediums, you can simply scrap it away or paint over it. Unfortunately, watercolor isn’t quite so fancy free, but …
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Getting Creative!

So, there you have it – a brief overview of the three most popular painting mediums; Watercolor, Oil and Acrylic, what you need to start your painting odyssey, what the materials do and how to use them. Now that you’ve …
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Watercolor Painting Tips and Tricks

Artists spend their whole lives learning. That’s one of the amazing things about painting. No matter how much time you’ve spent or how many things you’ve learned, there’s always something more to discover about painting. As you grow in your …
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Watercolor Painting Accessories

Watercolor is like a comfortable friend. It’s a friend who doesn’t require a great deal from you. The kind of friend you don’t need to dress up for, and when money’s short it’s okay to just hang out and relax. …
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Advanced Watercolor Painting Techniques

Once you’ve mastered the basic skills of paint application, you’ll want to expand your repertoire with some advanced techniques. This will include paint flinging, abusing your paper and exposing your paint to the effects of alcohol. Watercolor is one of …
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Watercolor Paint Brushes

A car mechanic has a wrench, a cook has a spoon and an artist uses a brush. Brushes are one of the basic tools of the trade, so it pays to be knowledgeable about which styles and sizes you need. …
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Watercolor Supports

A support is the surface on which you paint. For oil or acrylic painting, an artist uses gessoed Masonite, canvas or other firm, non-porous surfaces. Watercolor requires a porous surface to absorb the paint, and paper is the main support …
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Watercolor Paint Brands

Shopping for paint is similar to buying groceries. Sometimes it just makes sense to stick with national, name brands. You know the quality is good, it’s widely available and you’ll encounter no surprises. However, sometimes you pick up an off-brand …
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Watercolor Paints

As with most paints, watercolors are produced in two qualities and are called Student and Professional or Artist’s grade. Student grade paints are economical and available in a wide variety of colors. While more costly, professional grade paints are available …
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