Dear Chicago House,
I love the transparent effects you can get when painting with watercolors.
This painting is like translucent pebbles on a light box and is today’s piece for arty farty Friday.
and is so easy to paint.
Here is what you need
- A good quality watercolor paper – I like Strathmore® 400 Series Watercolor Pads which is a nice heavy weight paper (104lbs)
- A medium sized round paintbrush
- A cup of water
- A palette of watercolor paints
What you do
- Select any color, I mixed up a blue/black as I wanted my effect to look like pebbles. If you mix a color make sure you mix quite a bit of it.
- With a moist brush pick up up some of your colour and paint the outline of a simple shape on your paper, then fill it in. I used random blobs.
- Paint more shapes on your paper but do not overlap any of the shapes you have already created.
- When a shape is dry it is safe to overlap- it really doesn’t take very long for the paint to dry…my painting was done in a single sitting and took about 20minutes.
Enjoy!
Love from
Creative in Chicago
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Really cool art!
I am not sure what you mean when you say ..not to overlap the shapes already made…
Thanks…you have to wait for the paint to dry before painting and overlapping shape. If you don't the paint will bleed and you will lose definition