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Watercolour Painting
By peace | September 21, 2007
Watercolour has many virtues, its main attraction for artists being its freshness and translucence, making it ideal for a variety of subjects, especially landscapes and flower paintings.
As the name implies, pure watercolour is mixed with water and is transparent, so that it must be applied from light to dark, unlike oil paint or acrylics which are opaque and can be built up from dark to light.
Highlights consist of areas of the paper left white or very pale washes surrounded by darker ones.
A certain amount of pre-planning is necessary at an early stage to work out where the highlights are to be, but some planning is always needed for any painting or drawing, whatever medium is being used.
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