by Joe | Oct 11, 2011 | Beginners Guide to Watercolor Painting, Mud, painting problems
Small area of muddy watercolor If your watercolor painting is largely made up of clean watercolor washes but maybe 5% is overworked and muddy looking I often just let it go as it will not alter the overall look of your painting. This is not a hard and fast rule...
by Joe | Oct 11, 2011 | Beginners Guide to Watercolor Painting, painting problems
Mass of tree foliage too flat and uninteresting You have just painted a mass of tree foliage but have just discovered it looks like one big flat shape. If the paint is still wet just use your fingernail or the rounded edge of and old credit card and scrape in some...
by Joe | Oct 11, 2011 | Beginners Guide to Watercolor Painting, painting problems
Large splash of paint in unwanted area of your painting Watercolor problems often happen when one is moving a fully loaded watercolor paint brush over your painting surface. If you are not careful or are bumped you can drop a whole lot of paint where is it unwanted....
by Joe | Oct 11, 2011 | Beginners Guide to Watercolor Painting, painting problems, Painting skies
Stray watercolor droplets in the sky Sometime when you are painting the odd tiny drop of watercolor paint will land on a light area of your painting like the sky. How can you fix this? One way is to very quickly touch it with the tip of a tissue. Don’t press on it...
by Joe | Oct 11, 2011 | Beginners Guide to Watercolor Painting, painting problems
A watercolor painting can be fixed One often hears artists say that you cannot fix a watercolor painting once you have painted it or a section of it. This is not necessarily true, there are many things you can do to repair a painting or part of it. At worst there are...