Wonderful Watercolor

Watercolor, one of the coolest kinds of media out there. Not like social media, art media. Paints, chalk, markers, things like that. You can use watercolor is so many different ways. It's great for blending colors together and making some of the best shadows. It's easy to change the shade and tint of any color. Shade refers to different kinds of that color, such as lime green, grass green, dark green, blue green, you get the idea. Tint is how light or dark the color is, you could make a color brighter with more white or dimmer with more black and, I know this sound odd, but sometimes you need to make a color grayer.

And that's just what you can do with the color of watercolor. Using different brushes and other materials you can change the way it looks on paper. Tapping a brush to create different size dots is popularly known as splatter painting, mostly used with watercolor but can be also be used with regular paints and other art materials.

I sometimes find watercolors hard to control and you can't paint over them very well but you can do other interesting things with them. One of my favorite things to do when I'm painting with watercolor is to sprinkle a bit of salt directly onto the wet color, and when it dries it make little dots of white where ever you sprinkled it.

Watercolor pencils are also another way to use watercolor differently. By coloring with these pencils you can mix shades without adding to much water and you can better control where certain colors and shadows go. It's harder to make the color you want with only using watercolor pencils and water, so, I like to do a bit of outlining with the pencils then add water color on top of that and get extra color on my final product.

Have you tried any of these techniques before? I'd like to hear from you what works, what doesn't, and different ways you've heard of to enhancing watercolors.