Video: Watercolor Bowl Painting Background Filling

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Fill in the background of a watercolor bowl painting by darkening the paint and getting close to the edge of the bowl. Learn how to assess the background in watercolor with expert tips from an art teacher in this free painting video.

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Now as I get closer to the edge, I'm going to put, want to define it better. And of course you could go back and you can use your smaller brush for definition like that because smaller brushes are easier to control and easier to do detail. But we, when we get to large areas like this, we're going to use a larger brush. You don't have to, but it is easier and faster. And if you start seeing edges, all you have to do is just scrub them out. This is an interesting blossom right here. It's called a bloom or a blossom, and I'm going to leave it because it's interesting. Now this is not enough paint. I want to go darker for the background. So I'm going to get more paint on the brush and then wipe it around while it's wet in order to get soft edges. That's it. We're going to let that dry now.

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Watercolor Bowl Painting Background Filling

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