A little watercolor fun

I thought I would share a few watercolor techniques!
I'm no watercolor expert yet but I love to try new things with it!

The colors I am using in my projects today are lemon yellow, rose madder, ultramarine, and permanent green light. The watercolor set I use is Reeves. I purchased a 24 pack on amazon and I love them! It comes with fantastic colors, good quality at a good price! Check it out!

One- Paper towels

Paper towels have many different textures in them that I didn't really notice or appreciate until today.. Now I'll be examining all of the paper towels in the cleaning aisle while grocery shopping.
Paint your surface with the color of your choice and a little extra water, it's going to be pretty watered down, take your paper towel and apply an even and gentle pressure with your palm it on the entire surface. (I folded mine in half for extra durability) Gently pull off the paper towel and volia!

The colors are making me crave watermelon!

 

 

Two- Drawing with pen.
I have a great appreciation for individuals who are talented with not only drawing but drawing with pen! You can't go back with that. Pen and watercolor look fantastic together though! This is my first little sketch with pen and watercolor. Since I really stink at drawing I end up just drawing messy lines. But hey, messy is fun. (Drawing lessons will be in the works in the near future!)
The pen I use to draw with is small sized black artist pen by Faber-Castell.

Three- Splatter!
I love to use this as little accents to my paintings! Because as I said before, messy is fun! It make things a little on the unperfect side.
You'll want to cover anything you don't want to get splattered! (Take off your white shirt, too)
You'll want more water then paint on your brush. Take some paint first, dip it in water, hold the brush in one hand and flick the brush with your other pointer finger.

After exploring with these three techniques I decided to take all of them together and make a piece! I was inspired by my first technique to paint these funny watermelon slices!