[*Hannah*]

I have started to draw a picture, which i will paint with water colour. IT seems to be going very well so far. I need some practise first, since i haven't painted since i left school. I have always been fairly good at it, and i felt confident with using water colour, so i feel with a bit more practice to get me used to it again, i should be fine.

I have two questions. Whenever you paint with water colour, do you mix the paint quite thick, or do you keep it very watery? And do you wet the paper a little first. I was taught at school, to mix the paint until it was quite thick, and to wet the paper a little first. Im just asking your opinion on how you like to paint. Thanks for any help.

[Les Watters]

I don�t know where you went to school, but true watercolor is defined like this.

1. It must be transparent. If your paint gets opaque then it is not true watercolor.

2. The action of the water is important. Soft edges, hard edges, lost and found edges.

If you really want to learn how to paint watercolor, go to the source.

John Pike�s book Watercolor.

Charles Hawthorn, Hawthorn on painting.

Tony Couch, Watercolor, you can do it!

Look at great watercolor painters.

Dorthy Short
Eliot O�Hara
Winslow Homer
John Pike
John Sargent
John Wharf
Pheobe Walker
Jan Koonz
Charles Reed
J M W Turner


If you don�t know who these people are then you don�t even have the slightest idea what watercolor is.
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