Watercolor Techniques

Purpose:
• To experiment, explore, and learn a variety of ways to paint with watercolor

Through this brief experimentation with watercolor, I learned how to manipulate the medium into producing the effect I desired. I was taught how important it is to stay "light and white" when working with watercolor, because there's no easy way, or really any way at all, to undo a mistake or to make a stroke brighter than how it was laid down. Watercolor is perhaps one of the most unforgiving of the paint mediums, and this was apparent when went for one specific technique and instead produced another, which conferred an irreversible effect. This exercise instilled within me great respect for those who are successful working with watercolor. It's harder than it looks!