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Colour values -easy peasy

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Hi friends Hope you had a great time splashing! Then spread the word, so others can benefit! This time before the sky there is an exercise that we have to practice to get into the groove. This involves splashing again. Step I Pick some colours, you could choose your favorite sky colouts. If you mix and blend you will et new colours that will be your own ormyls. Try noting immediately as you watercolour wet in wet which means you work on a wet paper and drop in colours or Wet in dry  yeah it's you take watery colours to the paper. Let's try the wet in dry fur this exercise. Step II Take a strong value of watercolour. Just mix a strong colour without much water just enough on your brush. Then for the next add water to your brush. /yeah a lighter value emerges. Continue this adding more water till you get plain paper.Try the black also. This way you will get to learn values later when you paint objects, scenes, flowers anything you desire. It would be great...

Splash in watercolours

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Loose watercolours. It's really fun and we'll go through a simple flower, to learn tricks to make it easy peasy! So let's get started! Paper, Pencil, Kneadable rubber( so no marks on paper).Any soft rubber will do. Make light lines. Mine are dark so you can see the gaps. Choose paints! Camel or any brand paints preferably Artist's grade. The pigment is softer and more transparent. I often use Prima watercolour confections. Awesome colours! Especially for night sketches and practice which often becomes my final artwork! Brush no. at least three - 1  3, 6 and a flat brush 1/2 inch (optional for now) Tissues to dab brush on ! So let's get started: Step 1 Draw a simple flower, only leave a few gaps here and there. This will let you loose that tight control and let you give up the fear of watercolours. This is a basic flower. You could draw any. Only remember to leave gaps in between the drawing! STEP I Draw any flower shape with broken l...