Category: watercolour techniques

  • Masking fluid experiments

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    Liz

    Earlier this year I was introduced to the concept of an art journal. I’ve kept sketchbooks of my work all my life, but art journalling is slightly different. In March I started a journal of my own. A simple cheap bound sketchbook that within its pages I have permission to royally stuff up with abandon.…

  • Sunday Sketches – blatant experiments with watercolour

    Sunday Sketches – blatant experiments with watercolour

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    Liz

    I had nothing tonight for Sunday Sketches, but I did have about an hour to come up with something, despite being exhausted. I found myself playing. I didn’t know what to draw initially (though it is not like I don’t have a pile of unfinished works lying around, but hey, my thought capabilities at the…

  • Tools and Techniques – Watercolour lifting out and scrubbing

    Tools and Techniques – Watercolour lifting out and scrubbing

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    Liz

    As a bonus, I started reading one of my watercolour painting books, and encountered the technique of lifting off. The book basically described how you can lift off paint by wetting the dried paint with a brush and then blotting with tissue. When I experimented with acrylic glazing, I wiped the glaze with a cloth…