Too much water

Watercolor can be difficult to work with if you dont know what your doing. But once you get the hang of it, its extremely easy! Many people struggle with watercolor because they add way too mcuh water. Yes i know you dont think you can add to much water because the name of the paint is litterally "watercolor" . But yes you can add to much water, but the only way ts not to much is if your trying to get a more faded look

Like this:

You dont need more than about a teaspoon of water to activate the watercolor.

Dry Brushing

Dry brushing is literally the polar opposite of too much water. Dry brushing is when you have too little water and it doesn't get enough water to stay hydrated which causes it to show all the brush marks and it just looks kind of tacky unless that is what you going for.

Drybrushing:

The dry brush technique can be beautiful if you know what your doing, but i will say dry brushing is a mistake alot of people make on accident.

Salt x Watercolor

Salt and watercolor? your probably thinking, what would that even do? well honestly its pretty amazing! It creates more of a texture to the painting, most of you probably did this in elementry school, but this is for the people that didnt. The same water rule applies to the Salt x watercolor way, not too much, not too little

Salt x watercolor:

the reason it loses color in those spots, is because salt absorbs moisture, which is what it did here!

Wet on Wet

yes i know its confusing, watercolor is already wet so how can it be wet on wet? well the answer to that is really simple actually, wet paper is the other wet than the watercolor, which means you get a paper, wet it and then activate you watercolor, and thats when you start to paint, which is why its called Wet on Wet!

wet on wet:

pretty cool how it looks like its flowing!

Wet on dry

Wet on dry is literally what 99% of people know what to do when their painting with watercolor. you panting on dry paper, and watercolor is wet and thats really all that wet on dry is, its really freaking simple, yes it takes some time to get perfect at it but you'll get the hang of it eventually!

Wet on dry:

Pretty simple and great for beginners coming from a watercolor artist!

Links to some awesome tuts!

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Unicorn: https://youtu.be/om2Fx6iG7X0?si=t9UxfayamG4_49iY

Monster: https://youtu.be/aa0GiVyMowc?si=rdwv_DzU3xbEw_pq

Raven: https://youtu.be/dDMo4amIFF4?si=yCOI-4vHWzwd2gco