WATERCOLOUR PAINTING

Table of Contents

1. BACKGROUND
2. PAPER FOR WATERCOLOUR PAINTING
   1. Surfaces
   2. Paper Weight
   3. Watercolour Manufacturers
   4. Questions
3. DRAWING IMPLEMENTS
   1. Brushes
   2. Pencils and Drawing
   3. Questions
4. WATERCOLOUR PAINTS
   1. Colours Needed
   2. Mixing Colours
   3. Questions
5. COMPOSITION
   1. Questions
6. PERSPECTIVE
   1. Linier Perspective
   2. Arial Perspective
   3. Questions
7. PAINTING OUTDOORS
8. RESEARCH
9. BEGIN YOUR PAINTING
   1. Adding Colour to the Sky
   2. Adding Colour to the Ground
   3. Adding Colour to the Ship and Building
   4. Adding Colour to the Trees and Distant Surroundings
   5. Finish Painting

Brushes

When buying brushes at first you can do with just three sizes:

• 10,
• 6, and
• a rigger, half rigger or a number 2

Sables are the very best, but are expensive. The main thing about a brush is that it will come to a point automatically when dipped in water and then flicked in the air. A good art shop will provide a pot of water for you to try before you buy. If you think sables are too expensive there are brushes made of mixed hairs and also mixtures with synthetic fibres.