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Summary: How to properly mix colors for watercolor painting, including tips and helpful hints; tips and techniques for how to begin painting with watercolors in this free online art video taught by expert Larry Dubitsky.

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Larry Dubitsky Larry Dubitsky has been drawing since grade school. He graduated from Cooper Union Art School in New York City. He has a Bachelor's Degree from Brooklyn Colle... read more

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How to Mix Colors for Watercolor Painting

JOHN R. JUNGER: Watercolor painting is aptly name because it is an amalgam of water and color, and let's see what we could do with it. If I took a brush and wet it, open my paints and just look what I'm doing. Now, you see this? This is scrap paper. I always test what I'm doing on scrap paper. Now, this is called a flat wash because when it dries, it's going to be one flat color from beginning to end. Now, a lot of people use that because it's very nice. Now again, you notice I test my color. This is called the graded wash. Now, it looks just like a flat wash but what I could do is take another color if I wish and grade it into that. So, that is no longer flat wash, but it becomes a graded wash.

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