In the beginning, it seems very difficult and strange to paint with water colors especially if you are used to mediums like oil and acrylics. The foremost and the obvious difference between watercolors and other techniques is that water colors are transparent. This usually means that you have to identify that where will be the white area in your painting even before starting to paint.

The Process of Successful Watercolor Painting:

The process of successfully drawing a painting with watercolors incorporates many things and has been elaborated below.

• Lighter Washes First:

The first and foremost requirement of watercolor painting is that you should try to minimize the white areas in the picture. For that purpose, you should always utilize lighter shades first and then slowly and steadily move towards darker shades. Moreover, try to cover as much areas as possible quite loosely in the beginning and work on tighter details towards the end.

• Thumbnails:

Draw small thumbnails sketches before starting actual portrait as it allows you to shuffle and rearrange your objects before you finally start working. It is always good to a have comprehensive plan before embarking on the expedition especially for adjusting tonal contrast. This will also provide you the liberty to create the maximum contrast at the area that is the center of interest.

• Limiting the Palette:

Using many colors on your palette might seem tempting but you should not oblige to that temptation. If you do so, you will get a muddy and discordant work. Therefore, it is advisable to limit the number of colors to maximum to 2-3 especially in the beginning and it will your subject that will determine which color to choose from.

• Use of Foreign Colors:

You quite often see a picture in which some colors are totally mismatching to the rest of the theme. For instance, a bank of trees painted in area that is totally devoid of green color or deep Blue River on a purple flower jumping out of the bunch. However, solution to this problem is very simple that is to use more discordant colors to levels things of.

• Tie Colors Up:

You can tighten up a color arrangement that is totally disjointed just by adding finely written calligraphy lines in perfect harmony of colors. Keep one thing in mind that you should use only one color for these lines otherwise the situation will become even more confusing. On the other hand if you are using ink, apply a sprinkle of water afterwards and as a result, color will be softened creating some fascinating and beautiful feathering effects.

• The Use of Darks:

Try your best to avoid neutral dark's as the painting will be much more realistic and natural if darks are either warm of soft. For, instance, if you are planning to mix strong dark, do not use opaque yellow but go for Gold or Rowney yellow instead.

• Avoid Overwork:

If you concentrate on even minutest of details and carefully labor every area from one side to other, picture will be difficult to look at. If you love to work with fineness and details, try to add some area of relief as well to attract the spectators towards your piece of art.

Conclusion:

Watercolor painting is not easy and demands expertise as well as dedication and determination. If you have these abilities in you, you can become a great artist of this particular niche.

Author’s Bio:
Aitzaz Haider is an expert painter and also takes interest in best canvas prints and photography. He works for an online home décor store that offer services like cheap photos to canvas printing.