affordable Trade-mark of gouache from 'michaels'
This Testament be a system by development tutorial on the easiest action to colouring with watercolour and gouache.
Instructions
1. Accept your 12x 14 inch acrylic or whatever you craving to tape your watercolour rag paper [100% cotton rag=super durable paper] to and degree a 1 inch limit aboriginal before applying tape.
2. Always burnish [to rub with a stuff or arrange smooth] to dash off definite your tape adheres properly to your paper and to your exertion surface. A credit card works great. Application the column of the card against the tape. See the light behind the gray clouds? That's what I mean.4. After paint dries completely! mask off [to conceal or protect] the area that will later be revealed as the golden lining behind the cloud. You can use common liquid latex [eyelash glue, mold maker], or rubber cement. I use a cheap brush dipped first in water and blotted then dipped into latex. Frequently washing off brush in COLD water [warm or hot will make latex harden]. You can use a toothpick or a skewer, whatever gets the masking fluid [liquidlatex, rubbercement] onto the paper. Allow to dry before next step [working in foreground colors].
3. Use your background colours headmost in a Dainty wash. In this demonstration I Testament be picture the sun remain a cloud. [inadequate photo in lower correct share corner] Your background color is what is behind everything else. Rub back and forth. As paper dries between layers of dye it Testament pull and wish to warp. Taping the paper Testament minimize this aftereffect.
5. If you are patient and gradually apply layers of color, the depth of your painting will be more convincing. It will not appear so 2 dimensional. Begin applying the darker foreground colors in delicate washes. As you can see here, I have displayed the process in smaller pictures at the bottom of the image.
6. Here's the finished painting, as you can see in the small image in the corner of this photo. You can simply remove masking by rubbing a clean dry finger on it. It will roll up, and you can pull remainder off by hand. Some people prefer to use special erasers to lift off masking.
