How to Dry a Watercolor Painting

Video Transcript

" Hi! I’m John Junger. I do the paintings that we’re going to be talking about, the watercolors. I’m here representing expertvillage.com. You can also use a hairdryer to accelerate the drying a little bit. You got to be careful when you use a hairdryer because if you get it too hot it’ll buckle the paper, it’ll also color the paper and dull the colors. So, I try to avoid that, but sometimes I’m desperate and we use that. I’m using this instead of a hairdryer. When you’re using a torch, it’s much better to use a hairdryer, but a torch really accelerates things for you, just as long as you don’t get to close to the board or the paper."