Graphic textures with liquid watercolors

I'm just a beginner in watercolor painting and as I've got a set of liquid colors, I played around with them. I must say I found it a bit challenging as the colors are extremely saturated and it's very difficult to tone them down and get them lighter. Couldn't control them much in photoshop either... But I guess that comes with practice.. :)

Anyway, here's an example of one of my swashes before and after color adjustments:

And here it is used after I turned it into a pattern:

And here's a bit more saturated example of another swash: