Is Water Colours The Trendiest Technique Thing Now?

For most people water colours 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 and oil. But this can be regarded as a judgment that is unfair because water colours can be a versatile paints and in reality fun with misjudged number of creative potentials. There are a lot of new techniques used when it comes to water colours and today we will explore these trendiest technique.

Working from light to dark

This technique is important when working with water colours. 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 are 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.

Flat Wash

Doing a flat wash techniques is the first technique when it comes to water colour painting, which must be learnt seriously. This flat wash techniques is simply a smooth even layers of water colour. 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 live 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 watercolour technique

Thinking of doing a trick? You can sue the splatter water colour technique to do this. Hold the paintbrush 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.

 

Graded Wash

This technique is simply a step up of the flat wash. Rather than the sheer precision, some restrain is needed here. You begin as we explained about the flat wash. But for the second brush stoke below the first one, then you apply more water or pigment slightly. The pigment is added to get a darker colour

Layering colour

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

Author’s Bio

Tai McGard in this article enlightens his ardent reader on some of the trendiest techniques when we talk about water colours paint. He also spoke about the belief that those who use water colour or sketch pen are inexperience.