Using water colour paints.

Some of you are electing to use watercolours to introduce your first series of works.

In level one, this covers 1.2 - Use wet and dry media to record information. Watercolour is 'wet media'.

How you use watercolour is important - it is meant to be watery. thin even and easily pushed around the paper.

1 - Make sure you use watercolour paper to work on - it's thicker and more absorbent.
2 - Keep any pencil lines light so that they don't distract from your painting
3 - Be prepared to keep pushing the paints around on the paper and adding water frequently.