Traditionally you can see the paper through the paint and the paper tone makes your white tones.
click here for the Pinterest page on water colour painting techniques
- Practice on spare bits of paper
- Use contrasting colour matches for shading/shadows and modelling things to look 3 dimensional.
Red/Green
Blue/Orange
Yellow/Purple
Black is really harsh. using it as a shadow colour can be overwhelming. Do so with subtlety.
If you have not planned how to use the negative space - this means you are not actually achieving. the whole point was to 'compose' how you were using the space, not to just place everything in the centre.
I should be able to see your compositional sketches from which your idea comes from as I move around the room.
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