Watercolor Painting is done well when you have quality painting material or supplies for your paint work. If you are a beginner than it is more important to you that use right painting material in your work for getting better results because beginner have no experience and more confused that how to prepare for watercolor painting and what material is required for watercolor painting.

1. How to Prepare for
Watercolor Painting
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2. About Watercolor Painting
Watercolor Painting is mostly done on paper; others are bark paper
or canvas with using pigments which are water-soluble. Watercolors
are usually transparent. These paintings are available from Egyptian
times or from more past. Watercolors for children’s are not contains
pigments or any harmful additives. The most famous watercolor
painting technique is wet-on-wet which paint on large surface of
paper are wet, but it difficult to dominate/control. But the most
common watercolor painting technique is wet-on-dry, which is
done by wet brush on dry paper. Watercolor Paints have less hiding
power.
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3. Material Required
• Watercolor Paints
• Watercolor Paper
• Watercolor Brush
• Watercolor Board
• Watercolor Palette
• Water & Colors
• Watercolor Pencil
• Masking Fluid
• Gummed Brown Tape & Cleaner
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4. Watercolor Paints
• Available in artist watercolors, student watercolors.
• These paints are come in tubes and pans.
• Pans are easy to handle and use for small areas,
they are cheaper.
• Tubes paint squeezed on palette, they can apply
for large areas.
• Professional painters prefer Winsor & Newton
watercolor paints.
• There have more types to do watercolor painting
such as watercolor pencils, watercolor crayons.
• Don’t use opaque paints they can turn watercolor
paintings into gouache paintings.
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5. Watercolor Paper
• Use 140lb cold press watercolor paper for work.
• Arches provides 20 sheets per block.
• Arches watercolor paper is reusable and provides
best quality.
• It is the product of five centuries which have
experience in making of paper.
• Aquarelle Arches watercolor paper provides acid-resistant,
chlorine resistant, stability.
• It is made up of 100% cotton fibers which remove
stretching.
• It is long-lasting and yellowing free.
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6. Watercolor Brush
• Different watercolor brushes varieties are available
in market such as:
• Sable brush, synthetic brush, flat brush, squirrel
brush etc .
• Use brush at least 8 inches round sable watercolor
brush.
• These brushes are have short handle which
provides fine detail and work better to the paper.
• Synthetic brushes provide better results and better
detailed work to the paper/medium.
• Synthetic brush are expensive than others.
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7. Watercolor Board
• These boards are used to supporting stretch
watercolor paper sheets.
• This provides better surface where you mount
paper for painting.
• There are many different brands which provide
watercolor boards such as:
• Arches Watercolor Art Boards, Guerrilla Painter
Watercolor Boards, Fredrix Archival Watercolor
Canvas Board etc.
• These boards are water resistant, durable, acid
resistant and available in different sizes.
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8. Watercolor Palette
• Watercolor Palette is where an artist mix and
arrange colors.
• They are usually made of plastic, ceramic, nylon,
wood or other material.
• Palettes have space for paint and brush.
• Available in different sizes and in different brands
such as:
• Alvin, cheap joe’s, guerilla painter, Martin Universal
Design, Robert wood, craftech and tom lynch.
• Palettes come in different shapes such as flower,
rectangular, round and square.
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9. Water & Colors
• Use two glass/jar for holding water, one for rinsing
brush between colors and other one for cleaning.
• Some watercolors which are mostly every beginner
or artist prefer such as:
• Azo yellow, burnt sienna, burnt umber, cadmium
red medium, cadmium yellow light, hooker’s
green, payne’s grey, phthalo green, and
ultramarine blue.
• Watercolors drying very fast so test before apply
on paper that it is suitable for your work or not.
• You can get more watercolor ideas from online.
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10. Watercolor Pencil
• These can use for different watercolor techniques
such as:
• Wet-on-wet paper, Dry-on-dry paper but dip pencil
in water before apply on paper, dry-on-wet paper.
• Watercolor pencils and crayons combine then use
with brush on pigment.
• Woodless pencils are pigment wrapped in thin
binding paper.
• Available in different sets such as 12, 18, 24, 30,
36, and 40.
• These watercolor pencils are also available in
classroom packages which have 12 pencils and
each pencil include 8 basic colors.
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11. Masking Fluid
• It is a latex-rubber fluid which is used for
watercolor paper.
• It is also known as liquid frisket.
• It is used with brush to mask out areas of painting
before add any other wash.
• Add water to masking fluid that it applies easily.
• But remember masking fluid dry quickly and not
easy to remove.
• When fluid dries, slowly remove it with your hand.
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12. Gummed Brown Tape &
Cleaner
• Gummed Brown Tape is used to prevent
watercolor paper from stretching.
• You can cut four stripes of tape for each side of
watercolor paper.
• Use warm water not so much but a little bit and
dab/swirl brush from your hand until water cleans
it.
• After that use brush cleaner and put it on brush
and its bristles than again dab/swirl brush from
your hand until cleaner cleans it.
• Finally clean brush with clean water and put it in
its right place or in covered palette for long-lasting
use.
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13. Thank You
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