Watercolor Wet & Wet Painting

Video Transcript

"What we're going to do now is wet in wet. This is one thing that watercolor can do that, really, oil and acrylics don't do quite as well, if at all. So we're going to basically wet with clean water or a light flat wash, and then we're going to add color into it. And depending on how much water you put in there, it will create soft edges, sort of a bleed technique, like a blotter. That's the wonder of watercolor. There's other techniques similar to that. And you can - once - this looks very interesting here, but you can change that. You can put clean just water right into the wet watercolor, and it will affect it even more. And if you really want to do it right, there's two other techniques where you can spray it - but generally, that works on larger areas better - or you can put water in by splatter technique using your finger. And you just hit it against your finger, and you'll see what's happened: little splatters are happening. See? This makes it quite interesting. And if you want even finer splatters, you can get an old toothbrush. Just dip it in the paint and just platter it. It will splatter. It will splatter paint, or it will splatter water, into your wet in wet."