For your class project, I want you to focus on the techniques and the new media we used: Metallic watercolor, Pastels/Chalks, and or Pencils.

Do not worry if you do not have the colors I have; the point is to use your affordable watercolor paper. If you do not have metallics the same idea, please do not use them. I want you to use what you have and learn how to overcome every challenge now.

Points to check with your paper:

1.- If the second layer of paint starts moving a lot: Stop brushing and start tapping

2.- If you start removing the painting, meaning you start seeing the white of the paper: Let the water dry to the point is at a damp stage.

3.- Use soft strokes to blend, use some pressure on your strokes to lift the color

4.- Maintain your paper damp all the way or at least a big area to blend the colors easily between them.

5.- Avoid harsh and bold lines.

6.- If your paper is ripping out. Please use more pigment and less water. Be gentle with your brush strokes

7.- Be patient. Use more pigment and less water to build up the vibrancy of the colors; that way, you can finish your nebula using fewer layers and faster.

8.- If the blending is getting complicated, use a dry brush and start blending when the paper has absorbed all the water.

9.- Step away- This will help to avoid overdoing some areas of your painting and missing the ones that require work. Remember, we are trying to blend to the level where you do not see where one color starts and the other ends. Like an Ombre effect.

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Nikki Smith

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