Techniques of using mechanical pencils with watercolors

by Pooja Late so cut

For most people, the use of mechanical pen and watercolors is for painters who are inexperience and an entry-level material for them. They can use this material until they are capable of handling tougher paints such as acrylic, sketch pen, pen pencil, and oil. But this can be regarded as a judgment that is unfair because water colors can be a versatile paint and in reality fun with misjudged number of creative potentials. There are a lot of new techniques used when it comes to using a mechanical pen with water colors and today we will explore this trendiest technique.

Flat Wash

Doing a flat wash technique is the first technique when it comes to water color painting, which must be learned seriously. This flat wash technique is simply a smooth even layer of watercolor. Using a large flat brush is ideal because it can reduce the amount of space needed to cover the areas manually and help in keeping the paint even. The technique is simple. Just wet the brush with the paint and water and move the brush in the direction of a straight life over the page of your drawing. This should be done with a minimal pressure. The brush can be touched with the same amount of paint and water and the movement of the brush on the page continue with an overlapping of the bottom line.

Splatter watercolor technique

Thinking of doing a trick? You can use the splatter watercolor technique to do this. Hold the paint brush in-between your middle finger and thumb. While using the index finger, you draw backward on the bristles and let it snap in a forward direction. This approach can be said to be a bit random, but the result is good. I encourage you to give it a try.

Layering color

You need the building up of the color gradually because watercolor is a thin medium. You can do the mixing of the color on the paper. One color can be used to lay it and when it is dry, another shade did on it. One thing that will be observed is that, in the spot where they overlap, the pigment mixes and the product is a different color.

Working from light to dark

This technique is important when working with water colors. Working from light to dark is all about ensuring that everything that has been decided to be either light or white in a painting must be in that way for the period of that work. Layer upon layers is built until the effect required is gotten. This technique doesn’t need much of your planning, but the result is one which will be worth it.

Author’s Bio

Peter Bourges in this article informs his obsessive readers on the techniques of mechanical pencil and the use of watercolor. He went further to explain each of the techniques in the simplest possible way.