How can i use watercolors to paint a landscape?
With water colors, you always want to start with your lightest color on the land scape, like the white of clouds, or a light house, or highlights on rocks and fields. For places that are white you can mask out the area using rubber cement that can be pealed off when the paining is finished. If the lightest spot in the image is not pure white, but a light color you can make a wash by just dropping the brush with some color into a cup of water and using the water to wash in where the highlights go. There are many different affects that can be used in water color lanscapes: Wet on Wet: good for establishing Backgrounds of forests, base colors for fields, a sky, or other heavily blended areas. For this you brush clean water on to an area, and then apply small amounts of one or more color and the colors bleed into the area that you painted with water. You can use this affect to create nice sun sets by blending stripes of magenta, blue, and red. Wet on Dry: This is a good technique for fine
