7 Ways of Watercolor: Color Mastery

Short and Sweet.

The Holidays are Here!

 

 

7 Tips: Mastering Color

 

Festively dressed in Santa’s colors, my beginners’   Mastering Color – 7 Tips   looks ready for the Holidays.

 

Mastering Color, Part 1

As a prelude to Term 1 Mastering Color at Atwell Gallery,  I’ve composed 7 Easy Tips for Beginners.

 

There will be more tips, information and mini posts on COLOR, as the new year and this new Color course progresses in 2017.

These tips and pointers will help ‘point’ beginners  onto a smoother path on their fun and color filled,  Watercolor journey.

 

 

 

Helpful ‘follow on’  Watercolor Beginner Basic posts:

 

Watercolor Tips     a Page,  filled …. with great info and resources

Watercolor guide    quick guide to art materials

Watercolor papers 

Watercolor Techniques   watercolor trees

Watercolor chart 

Watercolor easy beginners 

Watercolor Beginners: Paint with Just 3 Colours

 

 

Final Tips

 

My all time #1 recommended paper for watercolor complete beginners just starting and ‘practicing’   – is  Arches 100% cotton rough. Or,  Cold Press.

Cold Press will give a bit more,  color intensity than the rough if the paper is damp.

Arches Hot Press, slick, shiny, smooth provides gorgeous vibrancy.  Its not so happy to have mistakes lifted off though.

640gsm papers are so thick, thirsty …. they will suck out the intensity of your colors.  Its a great sturdy paper, but, has drawbacks as well.