Summary: A dry brush technique in watercolor painting uses very little water. Learn how to paint with a dry brush in this free art lesson video.
Cody Davis is an artist with over 35 years experience in oil, watercolor and acrylic painting. He has a fine arts degree from the University of Texas and 12 years experience teaching...read more
"Now, we're going to do a dry brush technique. A dry brush technique hardly uses any water at all. Just enough to make it flow onto the brush. And using the texture of the brush the dry brush technique can produce interesting striations and effects. You can use small brushes. Remember you don't hardly want any water on it at all. That's why they call it dry brush you see? Generally the hairs and fibers of the brush split up and you can do grass type techniques. You just want the tiniest amount of water in the brush and load the paint up into the brush and you can do grass techniques and other things."
eHow Article: Watercolor Dry Brush Painting