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Some watercolour techniques are:

1. Flat wash – wet your brush moving it in a straight line across the page (a flat brush is necessary for this job).  Apply more paint and water to the brush and continue where you left off.

2. Graded wash – begin just how you started with the flat wash using a flat brush but with each stroke add more paint or water depending on whether or not you are going from light to dark or dark to light.

3. Wet in wet – spray a light amount of water onto the paper and then use a sponge to spread it evenly.  Then apply paint over it.

 

4. Dry brush – this is the opposite of the wet in wet.  Apply dry paint using a dry brush.  This is good for objects in the foreground or for objects in the background which are prominent.

 

5. Spray – simply using a large flat brush or a toothbrush use an appropriate amount of paint with water and pull back the bristles with a finger watching the paint splash all over the paper.

 

 

6. Color lifting – use a wad of tissue to remove color from a painting.  This gives it an impressionistic look or can simply be used to create clouds.

 

 

7. Edge softening – after painting a line, use a wet paintbrush and then paint along it.  This should soften the sharp edges of the line.