Erik Lundgren Watercolor

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For beginners

An exercise in flat wash technique

This is the first exercise that all my students must complete. You absolutely must be able to do this. If you try to do this exercise, the goal is a perfect result, otherwise you…

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Painting technique

Flat wash

A flat wash is in watercolor a completely flat painted surface without visible brushstrokes. The traditional way to achieve this is as follows: Mix so much paint so that you are convinced that it…

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Easy exercises

Flat washes

This exercise is about Flat washes, it is a basic technique in watercolor. I may return to at a later time how to do a flat wash. But the principle is: Tilt the paper,…