Watercolour Tips
New to watercolour? Here are some simple tips to help you on your watercolour journey! Sometimes unpredictable, always magical.
Replace water regularly!
Use two water cups.
One for cool colours (blue, green etc), one for warm colours (red, orange etc).
Always clean your brush in water before dipping into the next colour.
Start light first - light colours & light layers of paint.
More water on your brush with just a little paint, and go from there.
Remember, you can only blend colours and "edit" the watercolour while the paint/page is still wet
Water = Lightness
Adding water is how you make your paint colour lighter - You're diluting the pigment down. You can do this by having more water on your brush and only a tiny dab of paint, or mix extra water with little dabs of paint in another palette or mixing plate.
You can also add more water to your page to dilute what you've already painted and spread it out a bit - but only if what you've painted is still wet
When wet touches wet
This is where so much of the beauty of watercolour lies - but you also need to sometimes be a little careful! When a wet area touches another wet area, it will likely create a little 'bloom' between the two aresa. Super pretty, but sometimes not what you want for a particular spot. If you don't want to risk this but need to paint things side by side, just wait for one part to dry, then your next colour can layer, or touch it, and no bleeds will occur!
Mixing colours
You really don't need to start with many colours at all, as you can mix so many! Using a plastic palette, or dinner plate, or inside of your watercolour lid like I have below, try experimenting with some colour mixes. Add water to help the colours mix, and more water to dilute your mixes. It's not an exact science, try adding more or less of each colour like i do here, and see what you can create! Just be careful, adding too many colours together will result in the colours looking muddy and going brown
