how to prepare for watercolor painting

How to Prepare for Watercolor Painting

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About Watercolor Painting

Watercolor Painting is mostly done on paper; others are bark paper or canvas with using pigments which are water-soluble. Watercolors are usually transparent. These paintings are available from Egyptian times or from more past. Watercolors for children’s are not contains pigments or any harmful additives. The most famous watercolor painting technique is wet-on-wet which paint on large surface of paper are wet, but it difficult to dominate/control. But the most common watercolor painting technique is wet-on-dry, which is done by wet brush on dry paper. Watercolor Paints have less hiding power.


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Material Required

• Watercolor Paints• Watercolor Paper• Watercolor Brush• Watercolor Board• Watercolor Palette• Water & Colors• Watercolor Pencil• Masking Fluid• Gummed Brown Tape & Cleaner


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Watercolor Paints• Available in artist watercolors, student watercolors. • These paints are come in tubes and pans.• Pans are easy to handle and use for small areas,

they are cheaper.• Tubes paint squeezed on palette, they can apply for

large areas. • Professional painters prefer Winsor & Newton

watercolor paints.• There have more types to do watercolor painting

such as watercolor pencils, watercolor crayons.• Don’t use opaque paints they can turn watercolor

paintings into gouache paintings.


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Watercolor Paper• Use 140lb cold press watercolor paper for work.• Arches provides 20 sheets per block. • Arches watercolor paper is reusable and provides

best quality.• It is the product of five centuries which have

experience in making of paper.• Aquarelle Arches watercolor paper provides acid-

resistant, chlorine resistant, stability. • It is made up of 100% cotton fibers which remove

stretching. • It is long-lasting and yellowing free.


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Watercolor Brush• Different watercolor brushes varieties are available

in market such as:• Sable brush, synthetic brush, flat brush, squirrel

brush etc .• Use brush at least 8 inches round sable watercolor

brush.• These brushes are have short handle which

provides fine detail and work better to the paper. • Synthetic brushes provide better results and better

detailed work to the paper/medium. • Synthetic brush are expensive than others.


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Watercolor Board• These boards are used to supporting stretch

watercolor paper sheets.• This provides better surface where you mount

paper for painting.• There are many different brands which provide

watercolor boards such as:• Arches Watercolor Art Boards, Guerrilla Painter

Watercolor Boards, Fredrix Archival Watercolor Canvas Board etc.

• These boards are water resistant, durable, acid resistant and available in different sizes.


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Watercolor Palette• Watercolor Palette is where an artist mix and

arrange colors.• They are usually made of plastic, ceramic, nylon,

wood or other material.• Palettes have space for paint and brush.• Available in different sizes and in different brands

such as:• Alvin, cheap joe’s, guerilla painter, Martin Universal

Design, Robert wood, craftech and tom lynch. • Palettes come in different shapes such as flower,

rectangular, round and square.


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Water & Colors• Use two glass/jar for holding water, one for

rinsing brush between colors and other one for cleaning.

• Some watercolors which are mostly every beginner or artist prefer such as:

• Azo yellow, burnt sienna, burnt umber, cadmium red medium, cadmium yellow light, hooker’s green, payne’s grey, phthalo green, and ultramarine blue.

• Watercolors drying very fast so test before apply on paper that it is suitable for your work or not.

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Watercolor Pencil• These can use for different watercolor techniques

such as:• Wet-on-wet paper, Dry-on-dry paper but dip pencil in

water before apply on paper, dry-on-wet paper.• Watercolor pencils and crayons combine then use

with brush on pigment. • Woodless pencils are pigment wrapped in thin

binding paper.• Available in different sets such as 12, 18, 24, 30, 36,

and 40. • These watercolor pencils are also available in

classroom packages which have 12 pencils and each pencil include 8 basic colors.


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Masking Fluid• It is a latex-rubber fluid which is used for

watercolor paper.• It is also known as liquid frisket.• It is used with brush to mask out areas of painting

before add any other wash.• Add water to masking fluid that it applies easily.• But remember masking fluid dry quickly and not

easy to remove.• When fluid dries, slowly remove it with your hand.


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Gummed Brown Tape & Cleaner• Gummed Brown Tape is used to prevent

watercolor paper from stretching.• You can cut four stripes of tape for each side of

watercolor paper.• Use warm water not so much but a little bit and

dab/swirl brush from your hand until water cleans it.

• After that use brush cleaner and put it on brush and its bristles than again dab/swirl brush from your hand until cleaner cleans it.

• Finally clean brush with clean water and put it in its right place or in covered palette for long-lasting use.


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