Gallery 5
Sand Dunes - Oxwich Bay
Watercolour is a Challenge
As i said earlier, Painting in Watercolour is a real challenge make no mistake, overwork the paint 
and you end up with a muddy picture, underwork and the painting somehow never looks complete, but once you get it right Watercolour Paintings become a joy to behold.
Plenty of practice, lots of patience and sheer determination is the only way you will master 
watercolour and even when you think you have, this medium has a habbit of biting you back when you least expect it, things can go wrong very quickly if you are not on your guard or well prepaired.
I learned through practicle experience that by planning your painting in advance, knowing the colours in your palett and by using the best quality paint you can afford to buy you stand a much better chance of creating successful Watercolour Painting's time after time, establish your palette layout early on so that you know exactly where your chosen colours are and what mixtures work best for you.
Paint Quality
There are two types of Watercolour Paints available for purchase in both Pans and Tubes, Artist Quality and Student Quality, when starting out choose the best Paint you can afford because in 
the better paint (Artist Quality) the colour pigment is a lot stronger and more powerfull which means you will use less, this works out cheaper as you end up putting less paint on your brush but end up with sparkling quality colour on your paper.
Tip:-
When painting a sky on a Landscape scene always drop the sky wash in below the top of your distant hills, stopping where the hills meet the sky will leave you with an unatural line.
Tip:-
Always remember where the light or sun is coming from when painting, it is no good showing shading down the left hand side of a tree in one part of your painting and on the right hand side of a tree in another part of the same painting. Light should always come in from the same direction.
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