Watercolor painting for beginners tutorials are as follows:

Watercolor painting is a method of painting with water and transparent pigments, but because of the color transparency, a layer of color covering another layer can produce special effects, but too much color mixing or too much coverage will make the color dirty, the water dries out quickly, so watercolor is not suitable for making large works of art. So watercolor painting is not suitable for large works, suitable for making landscape and other fresh and bright small paintings.

1, dry painting and wet painting

Dry painting is a multi-layer painting method. The method of coloring with layers of paint on a dry base color, without the bleeding effect, can be more relaxed over and over again coloring, easier to master, suitable for beginners to practice. The expression of certainty, clear structure of the form and rich color levels, is the dry painting method's specialty.

2, wet painting method can be divided into wet overlap and wet color

Wet overlap:

Wet paper wet or partially wet brush, the end of the dry coloring and coloring the end of the dry overlap of colors. Moisture, time properly mastered, the effect is natural and mellow. It is its specialty to express the atmosphere of rain and fog, and the interest of wet water, which is not as good as some kinds of paintings.

Wet color:

Neighboring the end of the dry color, water color flow penetration, fuzzy junction, the performance of the transition of the soft color gradient more often use this method. When the color is connected to the water then letter to use to be uniform, otherwise, the water more to fewer rushes, easy to produce unnecessary water stains.

3, the mastery of moisture

The use and mastery of moisture is one of the main points of watercolor technique. Moisture in the picture has seepage, flow, evaporation characteristics, painting watercolor to be familiar with the "water". Full play the role of water, is an important factor in good watercolor painting. Mastery of water should pay attention to the time, air dryness and humidity and the degree of water absorption of the paper.