You always will win the watercolor game when you can get past the first hurdle it puts up in front of you. That would be your resistance to the flow of water and paint.

The paint is creamy and the water is runny. You need to feel and get a sense of how much creamy and how much runny. You cannot boss watercolours!

Watercolors are the BOSS. Oils and acrylics can be changed, moved around and even started all over but not watercolours. Where you place them is where they stay.

Rules that will work for you. Paint into the wet paper with less water in the brush. The water in the paper will do the spreading.

Let the paper dry almost completely and see how much lighter the colors become.Then add your juicy darks when the paper is just about dry.

Use bleeds to create interest and variation. Bleeds occur when paints goes from a dry paper into wet paper. You can see them in the above painting at the top right.

Practice your wet into wet on small color sheets.

Strong,bold, fully saturated hues always get a positive thumbs up reaction!

Look at that dark ultramarine with a whisper of alizarin crimson next to the pole and in-between the two evergreens. It sings!!!

Only break the rules when you know them. This is how new rules are made.

See you in class/Ron