Today I'm going to cover basic fundamentals of Watercolor; to control the flow and understand paint response. One of the most important things in watercolor techniques is understanding how to control the flow of the paint. Once we understand this we can create the blending and transition that we intend to make, which in turn gives us a lot of control in our paintings.

What’s different about watercolor, is the fact that the medium is affected greatly by such an unpredictable element: water, so we need to understand how the water affect the paint and paper.

In this class I will cover the main techniques such as wet on wet and wet on dry, and the type of edges we can create using these techniques. I'm also going to include different variables like paint consistency, brush load, and paper texture.

The beauty about watercolors is the fact that we have the choice; to either paint with control or to paint freely and take advantage of the loose nature of watercolours and letting the water direct our paint but, it can be scary to let go, and let the paint do it’s thing especially when we don’t have a clear understanding on how the paint is going to respond.

In this class I tried my best to include the things I wished I knew when I started watercolor, so at the very least, we can pay attention to the important things as we build experience. This is a great class if you're a beginner who would like to understand watercolors a little bit more, or someone who just wants to brush up on your watercolor skills.

Hopefully by the end of this class you’ll understand not only how to control the paint and when to let go with this medium, but also have the freedom choose the right type of paper you need for the style that you’re going for, in order to bring your imagination to life.

If this sounds like something that will help you in your art journey, let's get started!

John Cronin

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