How to Add Structural Details to a Watercolor Painting

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Hi! I’m John Junger. I do the paintings that we’re going to be taking about, the watercolors. I’m here representing expertvillage.com. This is a little dryer; the paper is still semi-wet now. There still will be some spreading, but I’m not into the point of really getting a lot of detail yet. On the one painting, I showed you with the mystic kind of mountains in the back, so that they’re still blending into things, but we’re starting to get structural kind of details. As you can see, now over here, it’s still spreading where it’s a little dryer and I’m getting a little sharper edge. As you see things in the distance, they become a little more vague, and if you get up closer, they tend to be sharper. If you want to bring a little bit of tree line into that you can at this point still add a little color in there. As you can see that’s kind of blending in with the blues and giving you a little different effect. If you get too much running, you’ll wind up with white lines, which you don’t want to do. Maybe white lines will be good. As I said, I don’t want to get too much detail back in the mountains at this point. Softening the edges.

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