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Dry Brush Watercolor Technique: 8 Tips for Broken Texture
Dry brush watercolor technique means thick paint, a blotted brush and dry paper. Eight tips on paper, loading and brush angle, plus a 5-step practice drill.
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Technique guides, pigment and lightfastness explainers, and paper, paint and brush comparisons for watercolor painters.
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How to Clean Watercolor Brushes: 7 Steps, 3 Ways to Dry
How to clean watercolor brushes, with mild soap and water that is never hot. Seven steps, why brush makers disagree on drying, and what they all forbid.
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12 Easy Watercolor Flower Ideas Sorted by Brush Stroke
Easy watercolor flower ideas, 12 flowers from four tubes, grouped by the one brush move each needs. Pigment codes, paper, time and three steps for each.
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10 Watercolor Birthday Card Ideas From 3 Tubes of Paint
Watercolor birthday card ideas, 10 cards from a rose, a yellow and a blue. Pigment codes, paper, time and three steps for each, sorted by who gets it.
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Granulating Watercolors Explained: 7 Pigments That Settle
Granulating watercolors are paints whose heavy mineral pigment settles into the paper's texture as it dries. Seven that do it, and how to control it.
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Flat Wash Watercolor Technique: Flat and Graded in 5 Steps
Flat wash watercolor technique needs a tilted board, a big puddle and a bead you never let dry. Five steps for a flat wash, how to grade it, and the fixes.
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Glazing Watercolor Technique: 6 Steps to Layer Clean Color
Glazing watercolor technique means one thin transparent wash over another that has dried. Which pigments glaze cleanly, which turn to mud, and six steps.
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Watercolor Block vs Pad vs Sheets: Cost per Square Inch
Watercolor block vs pad comes down to flatness against price. Arches blocks, pads and full sheets compared per sheet and per square inch, with Blick prices.
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Masking Fluid Watercolor Guide: 7 Steps and 3 Products
Masking fluid watercolor painting works when the paper is dry, the latex comes off within a day and the brush is one you can spare. 7 steps, 3 products.
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Best Watercolor Paints for Beginners: 5 Sets Compared
Best watercolor paints for beginners are six artist-grade tubes, not a 24-pan box. Five sets ranked by what is inside, with pigment codes and Blick prices.
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11 Christmas Watercolor Ideas to Paint With 5 Tubes
Christmas watercolor ideas for beginners, 11 festive scenes and objects from five tubes. Each lists its pigment codes, paper, time estimate and three steps.
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12 Easy Watercolor Ideas for Beginners From 3 Tubes
Easy watercolor ideas for beginners, 12 small paintings from one blue, one yellow and one rose. Each lists its pigment codes, paper, time and three steps.