Category: Techniques
Color mixing chart
Do an image search on ”mixing watercolors” or similar, and you will get results that look like the image above. Diagrams of different watercolors mixed in a grid, which I’m sure takes a long…
Use the entire mixing cup
Almost all beginners in watercolor painting lack the ability to mix paint in a sensible way. The vast majority of people mix too little color, then when they discover that it is not enough,…
Paint fluidly
All beginners paint watercolor with far too little paint in the brush. All? Yes, I actually think so. It happens at every course. Experienced participants paint fluently while those who are new, paint carefully…
Dry brush trees in the background
Dry brushing (Scumbling) trees in the background of a landscape is often a good way to paint them (Read more about dry brush). You want to create a believable tree without being overly detailed….
Mixing red and green color
When you ask Google what color you get when red and green are mixed, several of the answers are that the color turns brown. This is only true if a certain red and green…
Scrape out white
Smaller white details in watercolor are always a problem. They are often too small to just save by painting around. It is possible to use masking fluid and a dip pen or similar tool…
Color mixing in theory
A color wheel is a theoretical construction in which you have taken the spectrum of white light, from red to warm blue, bent this into a circle and filled in the colors that are…
Mix blue and yellow
Mixing green color seems to cause problems for many. Maybe it’s because mixing color is generally difficult or it’s just that green colors are difficult to get right. When a blue color is mixed…
