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How to Correct Mistakes in Watercolor Painting

Learn how to make watercolor painting mistakes work in your favor in this free art lesson on video.

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Hi I'm Marcia Matcham and I'm here speaking on behalf of Expert Village. Any painting has ever exactly turned out the way i wanted it originally I planned it but usually i make them work. I can't remember when I actually torned up or thrown away a partially finished or finished painting. I always find a way to make them work to me that's part of challenge. I have this imperfect thing here not that any of them become perfect but I have this very imperfect thing and how can I make it so it's acceptable to me. This paper is quite fragile so you need to be fairly certain you want that color down. Certain colors actually stain the paper permanently so you'll never get back to white. But you can scrub at it gently and get alot of the color off. Water color definitely is more of a challenge cause of that. You just can't just change you mind and say "I think I'll put yellow up in this place where I have bright green or something like that. The reds and greens and alot of the blues really do basically stain the paper enough that you'll never go back to white at all there's just none of those colors that really will you ever go back to white, but you can get the most intense part of it off and work with it after that.

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How to Correct Mistakes in Watercolor Painting

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