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Have you ever set out to paint a nice smooth, even wash of watercolor — and then come back a few minutes later to find it had dried streaky or patchy?
Maybe you even spotted it starting to go wrong, so you went back in with your brush to smooth things out… and just made it worse.
If that sounds familiar, this video should help.
When a wash dries...
Making watercolors glow is mostly about contrast — the contrast between light and dark areas, or between warm and cool colors. That’s a fairly well known artist’s rule of thumb.
But in this painting I used one extra little trick to make the flowers really stand out. It’s a simple layering sequence that gives them a soft halo of color — so the eye sees them as if the...