Basic Art Techniques

Hold it right there: Before you start adding fancy details and textures to your work, you need to know a few of the most basic watercolor painting…

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If you're just getting into watercolors or you've been painting for a while, sometimes it's fun to just experiment with techniques that you don't normally use when painting. I usually only paint using the basic watercolor techniques (see #1-#3) , but some of these are really fun to play around with,

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The 9 (36!) techniques chart From 8 basic techniques, applied in four ways each, I have a chart full of great ideas for textures for drawings. I use these basic 9/variations of them, on a lot of my drawings, so they're tried and true loves. You can pin the graphic or download it along with