Watercolors 10x10

 

My first day with my PRANG watercolors and single tiny brush.

Day 1: Watched this tutorial.  Learned about resources (below) and practiced on my own making "swatches".  The goal of this tutorial was to

Day 2: Watched the second half of the tutorial where she asked you to play around with brushes. (see like 15:00 in)

Day 3: Watched this tutorial.  Use #8 brush. How much water to use... Try to fill in 4 circles with more to less paint.  Use a pallet.  First circle is full color, little water; then add a bit of water to pallet... then more.. the fourth circle is just dipping your brush in water... and whatever paint is left.  When doing real paintings, you start with the lightest color.

Day 4: Wet in Wet blending technique lesson here.  Good paper=140lb 100% cotton paper.  Brush - 12, 8, 3/4 (new princess neptune)Mak.  Tape down the paper scraps with masking tape.  you can use a "watercolor block" too. Makes for small squares.  wets paper, then adds color to the top, cleans brush, then make a gradient.  She does four... one of them is "wrecked" because there are wet puddles which dry strangely -- with texture.

Gets another brush.  She keeps adding color to top and dragging down.  

Resources

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