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Basics of Painting a Sunset with Watercolors
How to Tear the Paper Before painting with Watercolors
How to Sketch a Design Before Painting a Sunset with Watercolors
How to Trace Before Painting a Sunset with Watercolors
How to Tape Canvas Before Painting a Watercolor
What Three Colors are Needed to Paint a Sunset with Watercolors
What Brushes to Use When Painting with Watercolors
How to Apply Yellow to a Sunset Watercolor Painting
How to Dry & Mask Off Watercolor Paintings
How to Apply Red to Sunset Watercolor Painting
How to Apply Blue to Sunset Watercolor Painting
How to Apply Streaks to a Watercolor Painting
How to Apply Details to a Sunset Watercolor Painting: Part One
How to Apply Details to a Sunset Watercolor Painting: Part Two
How to Apply Details to a Sunset Watercolor Painting: Part Three
How to Apply a Soft Edge with Watercolor Paints
How to Use an Art Gum Eraser in Watercolor Painting
Summary: Learn how to tape off the canvas before painting a sunset with water colors on it in this free video art lesson.
Sue Gill Rose is an accomplished artist and teacher. She has a BFA from Southern Methodist University and an MLA from Louisiana State University. She has also studied under renowned...read more
"Good morning again. This is Sue Rose with Expert Village. I'm going to show you how to tape your piece of watercolor paper to...I use a masonite board. One of the reasons that we always tape down the watercolor paper is that when the paper is fairly heavy but when you add water to it it stands to buckle. It will lay flat and it's much easier to be matted when it is taped to the board and you want to get all the wrinkles out. Some people even use a technique called wet on wet in their watercolor. I will show you. Part of this is done wet on wet. There are 2 ways to do watercolor. One is wet on wet and one is just on dry paper but we're going to start with this called loosely wet on wet. I also use a hairdryer to dry some of my watercolor painting. I also occasionally work on 2 or 3 different paintings at a time to allow one to dry while I'm working on the other one. Stay tuned for the next segment and I will tell you the colors that we're going to use today."
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commediluce said
on 7/11/2009 This video is incorrectly titled, as there is no canvas present.
Also, taping with masking tape as shown will merely hold the paper to the backing, not prevent buckling.
To avoid buckling, the paper needs to be dampened before using postal tape (water-based glue) onto the masonite backing and allowed to dry completely before painting. This is usually called "stretching" the watercolor paper, which may have been the source of confusion.