Painting has been the art, which was initially taken up to record various events of our daily life or the image of certain place or individual. Over the years painting has evolved into many different strata as have the necessity grown up to them.

 

Painting has also been taken up by many as their distraction by which they could relate to the life they have seen or wish to see. They simply put down their vision, which could be realistic or abstract varying from painter to painter.

 

However, watercolor painting still holds out as the basic form to learn painting due to few reasons like:
(a)  Blending of colors,
(b)  Holding the paint brush deftly enough,
(c)  Carry out the strokes properly, etc.

 

Watercolor painting, as it suggests is an art that revolves around blending semi-liquid or solid color pigments with water and then applying it on the paper or texture on which we are painting.

 

Let us look at the important aspects of watercolor painting:

 

1. Learning to adapt with watercolors:

Only with practice does one get the understanding of the amount of water to be added onto the color to get the perfect shade. While one is into watercolor painting, he must be able to arrange his palette, on which he blends the color with water, properly. When one starts of practicing watercolor painting the first thing that he must keep in mind is that he uses as less water as possible. This would ensure that the paper is not soaked badly and would not hamper the applying of other colors on it.

 

2. Blending of the colors:

Moreover, as the water soluble paint can be blended easily we can experiment quite well with them on our pallet. The ease of watercolor painting is that with the help of the water we can mix the colors fairly well even before applying them on the texture. This definitely would have been a problem when we use pencil colors or pastel colors for painting or drawing. This ensures that even by having three different colors on the palette we can blend them together to form various other color shades on that same palette.

 

3. Getting the grasp of paint brush strokes:

The only thing left to master while watercolor painting is the use of brushes or the type of brushes to be used. Practicing watercolor painting with the paint brush is really a headache at first, because it is really difficult to control a brush after having used steady pencils. We must keep our hands really steady to apply deft strokes on the texture and even while shading. It is a very delicate art where a person must be very careful with the way he is stroking with the brush or more importantly the way the brush is moved along the texture.

 

Even the application of color is important as it curtails a crucial aspect of watercolor painting. Whenever a person tries to go ahead with watercolor painting, he has to be careful enough to blend the colors properly and then apply them diligently on the texture. This is because if any particular place is smudged then the painting could be ruined.

 

Watercolor painting is the art that requires constant practice like any other form of painting and forms the platform of painting by brush on any texture.