Watercolour 11 TIPS ON RENDERING PERFECT PORTAITS
Watercolour is my preferred painting medium. It’s easy to work with, and safe because it requires neither solvents nor mediums. But as with many things in life, simple can also be hard, and achieving the art goals you have in mind can be challenging if you’re not aware of a few techniques and tools, which we’ll review together here.
I often make the analogy between watercolours and dance, because the colours somehow have their own life and flow. When working on a new painting, you enter a game of suggesting and reacting. And this is what I like about the medium. You have to stay open to how watercolours interact with pigments and the paper, and readjust all the time. Over time I’ve found it’s become a philosophy of letting go.
As I’ll explain in this article, the amount of water you use, the
