My weekly life drawing sessions start again for the New Year soon and I have a real sense of anticipation about getting back to some serious and enjoyable drawing after doing nothing much over the Christmas holidays. This got me thinking about the act of creating and some of the risks that this entails. So, I’m going spend a bit of time making sure that you can spot these and then carry on creating.
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Colour clearly matters hugely to most visual artists, in fact you could neatly describe most paintings as carefully (or not so carefully) orchestrated patches of colour on canvas or paper, and leave it at that.
Read moreLesson 3 - The Paper You Paint On and How Watercolour Works
To make an informed judgement about which paper(s) to use, it is hugely helpful to know how watercolours work and what makes them so different from other mediums like gouache, acrylic and oils.
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