Project 6: Watercolour Wet on Wet

Here are some sampling using the wet on wet technique, this simply means either applying wet paint on top of a surface which is already wet with either paint or water. This method can be hard to control The paint travels along where the water has been laid; where the paper is dry the paint will not travel. Wet on Wet requires thick watercolour paper, the thicker the better due to the amount of liquid involved with this. The technique is unpredictable as the paint has a mind of its own, wet on dry leaves crisp sharp edges this technique leaves the marks soft and blurred. The colours need to be strong due to the water already laid down will make the saturated paint go paler.

Wet on Wet Sample Four....

Paper: Crawford & Black @ 220gsm
Paint: Winsor & Newton Cotman (Tubes)

An experiment showing that the paint will follow where the water has been placed, the paint will not go where the paper is dry. Water was added to the paper with a paintbrush in the form of lines which cross over. Paint was then dropped on to the lines of water where the paint spread and followed the lines.






Wet on Wet Sample Five...

Paper: Crawford & Black @ 220gsm
Paint: Winsor & Newton Cotman (Tubes)

Had a look at creating a background using the wet on wet technique. I started off by taping the paper to board I used the paint brush to wet the paper and waited about a minute and added more clean water. Once I let the water settle I then added some paint, a couple of colours where used for each section and the water mixed them together. There is one section where it has created a Bloom which is what I don’t like about the medium, some people like that effect I don’t and I find it irritating.