- Watercolor - WetCanvas: Online Living for Artists
Join us for interesting and informative discussions of techniques, materials, and approaches to working with watercolors
- Watercolor Challenge - December 2025 - WetCanvas: Online Living for Artists
Welcome to the "DECEMBER" 2025 Watercolor Challenge ———————————- In case any new participants come along, the very few rules, are as follows
- Making absorbent ground - WetCanvas: Online Living for Artists
Hi, I want to make my own watercolor ground to use on canvas or paper I already make gesso using calcium carbonate Do you know what I […]
- Watercolor Handbook - Lightfastness and Permanancy of Watercolors . . .
You probably put a lot of yourself into your watercolor paintings: time, energy, concentration, anger, love, blood sweat, tears So you sure don’t want your creations to fade, discolor, or otherwise deteriorate Here are some things to consider to prevent that from happening:: • your paper • framing and mounting materials • properly displaying finished watercolors • and, of course
- Painting over watercolors? - WetCanvas: Online Living for Artists
Oil and watercolor techniques are very different, so the sooner you move to oil, the better If you want – and it’s a good idea – use your watercolor pencils to do a rough study sketch for reference If you’re still interested in trying out the watercolor-first approach, go for it, but on a test piece or two
- Can I used watercolours on Bristol Board?
The drawing looks good and may I suggest either watercolor or gouache paints I have used gouache on this kind of paper and it comes out bright and clear Just a suggestion or you can try either paints on a scrap of the bristol board and see how it works out This should look wonderful when finished LIL January 16, 2013 at 8:34 am #1179312
- Best books to learn watercolor - WetCanvas: Online Living for Artists
Hello What are the best books about learning Watercolor? I'm a real beginner and don't know almost nothing I read good reviews about a book called Everyday […]
- New to watercolour, suggest me a CYM palette
For example, for someone who wants to build color with multiple watercolor glazes, they probably want more staining paints so the underglazes don’t wash away, and transparent paints so that their underglaze colors show through the [transparent] top layers
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