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Watercolor Painting Lessons - How to Get Started

David Choe

Have you wanted to try painting with watercolors but don't know how to get started? If you have seen different watercolor paintings, you might have noticed the many varied types and techniques used. It might make it seem as though watercolors might be too difficult, but do not fear. The crucial is to find lessons from a teacher that may help you with most of the varied tricks, techniques, and methods while encouraging you and making it fun. For beginners, good lessons from a teacher that is skilled in not only one method or style, but in various methods is the most effective way to go. Taking lessons from someone who will want you to strictly follow only one way of painting may not assist you to experience what finest suits you personally.

Watercolor painting is a medium that may be managed when you learn the skill with some practice, but it is by nature an exceedingly loose and transparent form of painting. This scares many people from the media, however, if you find someone to teach you the freedom that it allows you, you will be pleasantly surprised and pleased.

Good watercolor lessons will also protect the fundamentals of drawing, composition, shade, and shading. Even though watercolor lends itself to becoming loose, these principles are really very important to virtually any painting. When you essentially begin your lessons, you will probably work with simple forms and practice techniques such as wet washes (which are wet paint laid directly onto wet paper), dry washes (which are watery washes of paint laid smoothly onto dry parts of the paper), then layering these type of washes. You will also learn to mix and shade with this watery media. Following that, you may start to learn to regulate "happy" accidents, and use a dry brush or do varied fun methods of building texture and detail. Your first paintings will be ones that generally follow that of the teacher's painting in demonstrations to get a foundation of experience and learning. Once you grow to be more at ease with watercolor painting, you will progress to painting from still life arrangements or photos that you have taken, or even other types of models or plein air.

There is a school of thought which is known as the "Purists." Those who follow a purist form of watercolor painting, insist that watercolor paintings must be done very cleanly and all whites must be the genuine watercolor paper.