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Explore watercolour

In this article in my series on improving your watercolour technique, I want to discuss one of the most familiar characteristics of the medium, namely the rate at which it flows, and how a close communion with this particular property can improve your work.

One of the most defining aspects of watercolour is that it is dynamic. It flows and intermixes, either under, or despite our attempts at control. The marks you initiate either individually or in whole passages of paint, can appear different when dry because, unlike almost all other media, it continues to move, to

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