3 Basic Watercolor Techniques of Transparent and Botanical Painting

Hello everyone, friends! In this video I'll show you basic watercolor techniques which are used for transparent and botanical painting And we'll start reviewing our techniques on cellulose paper We have three of them Let's start with the first, most basic one It's called wet-on-dry watercolor wash This technique involves applying paint evenly in a smooth, even layer Look how well I diluted our watercolor with water It has the consistency of tea For convenience you can tilt the sheet slightly This way the watercolor will fall down and the paint will not dry until the next stroke Now I'll be silent for a moment so that you can watch my hand closely Let's try it The next technique is called layering or glazing This technique allows you to work with tone in a composition Now with the help of two sheets of paper you can understand what tone is This technique consists of applying a new layer of paint to a previously dried first layer Let's try it And when our layer of watercolor has dried, we apply the next layer Let it dry Let's add more layer And we come to the third important watercolor technique Personally, I call it from dark to light or going to zero This technique involves creating a smooth gradient from color to a blank sheet You'll see, on cellulose paper our paint layer is uneven This is due to the properties of cellulose paper So in the second part of this video I will show you all these techniques on cotton paper Because painting with watercolors on cotton paper is the key to a successful result And I start from wet on wet to dry Watercolor wash This technique involves pre-moisturing the paper with clean water I didn't show this technique in the first part of a video Because this technique simply doesn't work on cellulose paper And only after we have moistened our paper we begin to introduce paint See how convenient it is to move and level the paint while our sheet is still wet Let it dry This technique is used when painting large areas or when painting small areas You need to smoothly introduce two different shades The next technique you already know is wet on dry watercolor wash Only here I paint on cotton paper and you can see the difference in the result I use this technique when I need to paint small areas of a drawing Now we can compare both techniques In my opinion wet on wet technique has a more gentle effect Let's move on to the next technique and this is layering And here you will see a big difference in the result Cotton paper is simply made for this technique While cellulose practically does not work with it Cotton paper can be painted with many layers of watercolor And this technique helped me work with tone in the drawing And we came to the last technique This is the exit to zero I use this technique when I want to show the rotation of the shape of an object In the same way I create a falling and own shadows Today I showed you three main techniques that I use for painting with watercolor You also saw the difference when you working with cellulose and cotton paper I hope my tutorial was useful for you and you will enjoy painting with watercolors