Avoid Disappointment And Frustration With Good Basic Watercolors! | Drawing and Painting

By MichaelDale
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Recently, I was criticized for an incredibly simple 2 stage learn how to paint watercolors course. I hold my hand up high - the critic is absolutely right...

It was aimed at artist beginners who wanted to learn to paint without having to learn to draw first. This meant that although they may not be too good at drawing, they could still get started painting. Painting landscapes, still-life painting, portraits and mechanical objects can come later.

There are 2 reasons to go right back beyond the basics of painting watercolors...

1. It is a great idea to learn to paint before you try to paint a picture

2. It is a good idea to go back to first principles when your paintings are going wrong

It is true that there are unusually lucky people. When they pick up a box of paints and a brush they can easily paint their first watercolor landscape painting. They never seem to struggle with their art. Such fortunate people are a minority.

Alternatively, like you and me, most of us aren't blessed with such talents...

* Learning to paint watercolors is hard

* At times it can seem impossible to paint watercolor pictures

It isn't hard to find every brush mark on your painting turns into an awful mess. As you find your watercolor washes flooding uncontrollably, it is easy to create a nightmare of badly blended color.

All too soon you can turn your great art ideas into a muddy shambles. When you do you are lost. Unless you understand what is happening when watercolor paint flows across the paper, your painting will never get better...

* When you look you can see how color is carried by water on watercolor paper

* Understanding that you will wreck a color wash if you haven't left it to dry before adding the nest wash

* It is good to know how to paint a range of color intensity and tone from a single color before advancing to adding other colors to the mix

There is great sense in the old saying... "Don't run before you can walk"

Watercolor painting can quickly convince you that you have no artistic talent. It can make you look like you have no painting skills. It is a shame to become disheartened when your watercolors go wrong.

Which alternative would you choose?

"Frustration and disappointment from failure... or a fundamental knowledge of how simple and easy watercolor painting really works?"

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