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Wet Into Wet - an exciting way of painting!
Equipment & Materials

To complete this lesson you will need:

Ultramarine blue paint
Light red or any brown made by mixing red, yellow and blue together
Cadmium yellow or yellow ochre
Wash brush
Detail brush
Kitchen towel
Water jar
Watercolour paper 140 lbs or 300gsm

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Wet Into Wet - an exciting way of painting!

Level: Beginners
Instructor: Dee Cowell
Price:  £2.50 

Learning to paint in watercolour involves studying some unique techniques. Wet into wet is one of them and watercolour artists can learn it to enable them to create the illusion of distance in a painting.

When you apply paint to wet paper it behaves very differently to how it works on dry paper. The results are unpredictable and wonderful, but it is very easy to get mud! What you are after is a soft blurring of the edges which can create wonderful feeling of perspective in a landscape painting, or distant out-of-focus flowers in a flower painting.