Watercolour Tips I

Watercolour is great for painting but it does require a bit of experimentation before you get the hang of it. And to really get control over it is quite challenging and very demanding.

Also known as aquarelle in French, watercolours tend to be worked from the palette but you can often work sometimes directly from the paints. Slowly, we coat the paper with layers of colour. Unfortunately, the rule says that one should work from light colours to dark.

This has a reason to be. If we blurt a dark colour in the wrong spot, there’s really little or no way around it.

We can never forget the water cup as there’s nothing worse than a mucky paint tray. So keep those brushes clean.