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it is important to remember to always work on the entire piece all of the time and not just one section at a time. Become a great watercolor artist with tips from an experienced professional painter in this free video clip.

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One of the technical ways to do water color and something that you always want to keep in mind is you want to work the entire piece all the time. Which, to make a little more sense out of that. If you just work one area and work that area until it's complete? What happens then is it changes the balance of the whole piece. So as you can see on this piece this has basically one layer of color on it. It's the first layer of color. And what I'll do on this piece to continue with it instead of working on the sweatshirt until the sweatshirts complete and then working on the horse until the horse is complete and going on like that. I'll touch on each one of these areas and bring them all up to the same basic tone and color range all the time. Because what will happen if you focus on one particular area it throws the rest of the painting off and what looks like it might be dark at that point when you bring the other tones up, all of a sudden it's not as dark as you thought you might want it or it's too dark. So that helps to balance the piece. This piece here as you can see, if you go, we're going to jump ahead a few steps onto a different piece, this piece is almost complete, and you can see everything is pretty consistent as far as the intensity of the colors and the tonal range. And this piece started out the exact same way that this piece did. And it was just, everything is brought up basically, you always, you work the piece in it's entirety and that way you'll end up with a finished, well balanced piece.

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Watercolor Painting Tips

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