Video: Watercolor Painting Supplies: Slide Viewer

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In watercolor painting, a slide viewer can be a useful supply for projecting reference pictures. Learn about using slide viewers for watercolor painting with tips from an award-winning artist in this free video on watercolor supplies.

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Okay, another basic supply that I use, there's actually a few of them. I use a projector to start my piece with, and that's something that we'll discuss later, and then during the course of my painting, I'll need to reference back to the slide that I actually used when I initially started the painting. So I use a real simple slide viewer like this, you simply drop the slide in, you turn on a light, which I don't know if you guys will be able to see that or not, but you'll turn on a light, it illuminates the slide, and then you simply, you can glance into that while you're doing your painting, you can reference the colors, and you can get a pretty clear idea of whether or not you're headed in on the right track. One of the reasons I prefer slides is you can actually, when you shine the light behind the transparency, it shows the colors a lot clearer and a lot more vibrant so you can actually see those colors and paint them, so that's one of the reasons I work from slides, and this is a really effective way to be able to see your side and the work alongside that while you're painting.

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Watercolor Painting Supplies: Slide Viewer

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