Use a large watercolour brush and fill it with LOTS of colour (be sure you have prepared enough of the colour to last the whole paper,because there will not be enough time to mix new colour, PLUS you may get a different blend than before.) And when you paint you also have to tilt the paper to make the water want to stay at the bottom with each stroke of the brush. Do not go up further with the brush!! Stay in the "watery" bottom -line with each brushstroke! This is very important, otherwise you will get lines in the colour when it dries! The excess colour at the bottom you remove by dipping very carefully the TIP of a dried watercolour -brush (you can wipe it off on a cloth or a piece of paper). The brush suck the water right in. If you don´t
remove the excess water/colour it will bounce up in the glaze above during dryingtime and make patterns that we don´t want. Keep tilting the paper until it is dry. It will go on mixing nicely during drying time. So don´t worry.
But DON´T TOUCH!
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Dear Catharina:) Thank you for this interesting post. I'm sure your blog friend will understand the explanation, it was very clear! It's nice to read how everyone does the painting on his own way with a different way of approach.
ReplyDeleteI wish you a very lovely weekend! Hugs:)xx
Thank you Renate! I hope you are having a great weekend too! Take care!
DeleteBuenos consejos, buena ayuda. Saludos
ReplyDeleteThank you Jesús!
DeleteI love finding out a new tip from fellow artists. I had not tried adding the water to the heel of the brush, thanks Catharine for a great explanation
ReplyDeleteWell It´s good to try all the ideas that pops up in the head ;) Thanks Lorraine!
DeleteVery interesting. Thanks for explaining.
ReplyDeleteThank you for visiting Jean!
DeleteGreat explanation and nice of you to help others
ReplyDeleteI know how much that means when you are struggling with a painting and don´t know why you don´t get it the way you want to. Thank you Polly!
DeleteThanks for all your comments! Wishing you a great weekend!
ReplyDeleteThanks for your explanation. Preparing enough paint is my biggest problem!! :-)
ReplyDeleteThat happens to me too sometimes Hanneke! ;) Thank you for visiting!
DeleteA very useful post Catharina, like Lorraine I too have never added water to a brush in that way!! I have been very unwell again and so I'm busy catching up with things. The finished boat picture in the previous post is beautiful, I hope you're pleased with it, you should be! Well done!!!
ReplyDeleteWell I get good ideas now and then :D And they are worth trying. Yes I´m pleased with the boat painting but my favourite of them two is the first one actually. Thank you for visiting Kev!
DeleteInteresting, I had not heard of this method before either, Catharina. I make a paint-water mix and add a little water to it, for each next brushstroke. Thanks for your explanation!
ReplyDeleteI do it like that too sometimes, but sometimes I don´t have any room for extra water because I´ve mixed so much allready. Plus sometimes I don´t want to change the colourmix as I want to keep it for another spot. Thank you for visiting Judy!
DeleteThanks so much for showing the method. I have never taped my paper down, that could be most of my problems. I didn't realise that you should tilt the paper as well. I've just painted like you would acrylic paint, now I know why it never works!! Thanks again, I will get some supplies and try again.
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