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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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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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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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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.
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10 Easy Winter Watercolor Ideas From a 4-Tube Palette
Easy winter watercolor ideas, 10 scenes painted from 4 tubes with no green or white paint. Each lists its colors, pigment codes, paper, time and steps.
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How to Stretch Watercolor Paper: 3 Methods by Weight
How to stretch watercolor paper in three moves, soak it, tape it wet to a board, let it dry overnight. Soak times by gsm, plus staples and frames.
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How to Paint Snow in Watercolor: 9 Tips for Clean Whites
How to paint snow in watercolor comes down to leaving the paper white and painting the shadows. 9 tips on masking, blue shadows, salt and opaque white.