How to paint with watercolours and lovely fluid colours and direct painting is achieved by using watercolours and with a totally different quality when you first put watercolour to paper.
Paper and Brushes Watercolours are usually painted onto a textured paper and they range from a fine tooth to a really grainy tooth and it is best to use a good weight of paper like a 140llb, anything less than this will buckle the paper. Again bockingford is a really good paper to work on and there are other papers like cancion and fabriano. Cartridge paper can be used but be sure to buy the medium grain variety which is a bit thicker and wont buckle as much as the thinner paper, cartridge paper has a totally different quality about it and can be quite a challenge. Buy the best watercolour brushes that you can afford and Kolinsky sable brushes are widely accepted to be the best, they hold loads of water so you don't have to keep dipping into the water jar all the time. They come in different sizes and it all depends on how large or small you want to paint.
If you want to paint on a size paper no larger than A3 (17"x12") then you will probably need a number 10 and a number 6 and 3 brush. These will suffice but there are other brushes like square brushes so you can get into corners and are pretty good for line work. It all depends on what you want to use the brush for, if you want to paint portraits then a square brush is no use but if you are painting a hut or some other squarish looking subject then a square brush might come in handy.
With watercolour you work from light to dark but you can always break the rules if seems fit. To achieve a graded wash in watercolour you
can first wet the paper then add your colour and working downwards with your brush, before the colour has dried start from where you left off with another colour, this is the basic simple method of wet in wet used in watercolour.
Always remember use plenty of water in your washes.
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painting is achieved by using watercolours and with a totally different quality when you first put watercolour to paper.
