Three Ways to Mask a Crescent Moon
Three ways to use masking fluid (liquid frisket) to mask a crescent moon in a watercolor painting.
Three ways to use masking fluid (liquid frisket) to mask a crescent moon in a watercolor painting.
A way to spatter without getting paint (or masking fluid) all over you and your studio.
Sketchbook Pro is a great tool for quickly planning changes to a painting in progress, and it’s free. This video introduces the small set of features I use in my planning process, so you can get started quickly without having to go through a lot of features you don’t need.
Some alternative ways to make planning marks to avoid visible pencil lines in the finished painting.
One of the joys of watercolor is the ease of cleanup. In fact, you don’t really have to clean up at all, if you don’t feel like it. Nothing terrible happens if you just wipe off your brush, put it down and walk away. Well, mostly—do you know the right way to put down a watercolor…
Getting light color values in watercolor works a little differently than in other mediums, since watercolor is transparent. In watercolor, we rely on the white color of the paper to give us our lighter values, meaning that a watercolorist’s main options are reserving or recovering whites. This article lists some of the strategies you can use to reserve and recover whites and light values.
A few tips for mixing darks and shadow colors in watercolor, including shadows on yellow and red objects.
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