Video: Painting With Watercolors: Fixing Mistakes

Some people think that mistakes made with watercolors are not fixable but they are. Become a great watercolor artist with tips from an experienced professional painter in this free video clip.

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One of the common complaints I hear about water color is you just can't fix a mistake. If you put a color down it's there. It's never going to come up again. You're committed to it and it's just never going to end. So what I want to show you now is something that you actually can fix a mistake and if you simply take. I have some color in this brush. It's actually a gray because I'm working on this girl's sweatshirt which is gray so it follows. And I'm just going to take and I'm going to make a swipe of color. And you can see that. And then what will happen is sometimes you'll decide well that might be a little darker than I needed. It might not be the right color. If you immediately take your brush and put a lot of water in it right away and you can blot that right back up. And for the most part it's gone. And what that does, because you've originally put it on in a really light layer that wasn't a very committed layer, not a committed color, it's very easy to pull it right back up again. And then you can fix your error once the paper dries. You can go back in and do what it is that you intended to do in the first place. So you actually can do that with water colors.

Painting With Watercolors: Fixing Mistakes

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