How to Use Watercolors without Ruining Your Work

Watercolors have a translucent characteristic. It is a brilliant way to create effects which could bring out the emotions of your work. Watercolors by its name use water in order to apply colors. One drop of water can make a blot that could ruin everything. Now, how will you use watercolors without ruining your work?

Watercolors are devised to dry quickly so that you cannot have that much water that drips on to your art work. The only key to not have water to drip so much is that you need to require yourself to be patient and to be careful. But if you cannot these circumstances are inevitable?

There are some things you can still do. First just put a slight amount of water. If you put too much amount of water there is a huge possibility that it could create unwanted blots and effects. Next, the most common mistake for beginners is that if you ever noticed that when you go to make a water paint picture sometimes there is too much water and blends together and even if you use a paper towel to dry it up a little bit there are still those kinds of smudges that appears and annoys you. How do you stop the paper from wrinkling and getting a hole while applying the paint? In these likely cases you cannot rely on your patience and carefulness to avoid that certain situation. Here is what you will do, you can use the point of a dry paint brush to soak those puddles off the paper. Let the paintbrush do the drying and in that way the paper will not crumple. Also, tape down your paper with painter’s tape or any tape or you could use watercolor paper. It will help you prevent the paper from wrinkling. Now you can have a work with great effects by using watercolors without damaging it.

Watercolor painting is both fun and a bit despairing at times. It all depends on how you approach it. It is one of the most protean mediums to work in. You can start using watercolors from very controlled and detailed, to very loose and free. But as a beginner it is highly advised to begin not in to a masterpiece. Start little by little. Take time to develop and master your outraging skills and after that you can create a better art piece time after time art after art.

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