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1 - Always get the paper as wet as you can before
you begin applying watercolor paints. Depending on your
environment you may only have 7 minutes before the paper
starts to dry. Tip
2 -
Don't dilute your paint to
the point of liquid. For painting the beach, the
foreground trees and bushes
you want your paint to be like toothpaste. This will
give you a little more control over the wet in wet process
also.
Tip 3 -
Paint from wet to dry, from large shapes to small shapes, and from
light values to dark values. All this is done while the painting is
drying in the first 7 minutes and also as you apply additional
watercolor washes or details.
Tip 4
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Use larger brushes such as 3 inch, 2 inch and 1 1/2 inch flat
brushes.
Tip 5 -
Don't try applying the paint uniformly as this is not always pleasing to
the viewer. Instead add some variety in your brush strokes, the
paint mixture, the size of shapes, the value of shapes, the number of
shapes. "Variety is the spice of everything nice"
Roy John Fuller 2001.
Tip 6 - Apply paint with your
brush quickly. Don't stay in one spot going back and forth,
move around the paper in light, sweeping strokes and changing your
direction continuously. It's the variety in your brush strokes you want
to focus on. Always use variety in you painting from the design
to the completion. Always paint trees different heights, width,
texture, values and colors. The same goes for rocks, mountains, people,
clouds and everything else.
Tip - 7
I always do best when I paint on a slight angle. You can
experiment slanting your board upward off a flat table by placing a
book, etc. under the outside edge. I usually paint with my
backboard in the vertical position so my students can see better.
Paintings By Roy John Fuller
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