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Dry Brush Watercolor Technique : Also known as Broken Edge

By joecart, on August 10th, 2011%

Dry Brush Techinique

This edge, samples of which can be seen in figure 7, is created by sliding the brush quickly across the surface of your watercolor paper. There are a number of variables however which affect the final result you achieve.

Figure 7: Dry Brush or Broken Edge . . . → Read More: Dry Brush Watercolor Technique : Also known as Broken Edge

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Watercolor techniques: wet on dry

By joecart, on August 10th, 2011%

Wet on dry watercolor painting technique

Wet on Dry is the watercolor painting technique you use when you want to place a hard or sharpe edge on your painting, though you can also use it to cover an area with a nice clean watercolor wash, see figure 6.

Figure 6: Wet on Dry, . . . → Read More: Watercolor techniques: wet on dry

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Controlled Wet on Wet or Wet in Wet Technique

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Controlled Wet on Wet or Wet in Wet Technique

As the paper dries, during the wet on wet technique, it will arrive at a point where it has lost its shine, now if at this stage you run the point of your brush across this damp section of paper you will see an interesting effect . . . → Read More: Controlled Wet on Wet or Wet in Wet Technique

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Wet on Wet Watercolor Technique

By joecart, on August 10th, 2011%

We will now look at the wet on wet or wet in wet watercolor painting technique

A good exercise to understand the potential of using wet on wet techniques is to mix a milk strength mixture of French Ultramarine and Alizarin Crimson. Then tape a quarter sheet of rough textured watercolor paper to your board. . . . → Read More: Wet on Wet Watercolor Technique

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Watercolor techniques: edges created with a round brush

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What is so important about edges? [SinglePic not found]

Venice Sunset, Italy

Well, as watercolor artists, and artists in general, we paint our paintings through the creation of different edge shapes. In this article I will talk about these edges and how to use them to create our watercolor paintings. The examples I . . . → Read More: Watercolor techniques: edges created with a round brush

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