Watercolour texture techniques

Since I am doing some watercolour painting I did some experiments to see how the pigment can be manipulated to create effects which could be used in the creation of an image. It was interesting to see how the pigment moved when the methylated spirit was dripped onto it. This could be used to create some interesting bubble effects. As well as dripping the methylated spirits you can also paint it on with a round brush. The salt on wet paint created some beautiful delicate effects.

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Description Hope this all makes sense, I'm not very good at explaining things Also theres probably millions of typos. If something isn't clear in this leave me a comment and I'll try my best to explain it better for you. The colour used in this is Winsor violet, gorgeous colour but I don't get to use it often so thats why I used it in this tut. The textures took an evening to do and the writing took a few hours today. © Michelle Wilkins

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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,

There are many ways to incorporate glorious texture into your watercolour backgrounds. Its part of what gives watercolour paintings so much life and interest! Here are 4 of my favourite techniques for adding watercolour texture.