Dehradun College of Art

Most of the readers will be thinking ‘Everyone knows how to use it’ ‘It is for children’ ‘What is there to master?’ And they are not wrong since it is the cheapest of other mediums and everyone has used watercolour in school so you think you have mastered it, but let me tell you that there is more to it than that. Watercolours may be cheaper and easier to learn, but they are actually considered one of the hardest mediums to master because you cannot use white to cover your mistakes or paint light areas and a single drop of water can dilute the colour and ruin the detailed work that took hours to create. Here are some useful instruction on how to Master the Watercolours To paint solid shapes use ample amount of paint and make swift strokes, You can use the edge of flat brushes for making sharper lines and it works wonders for shadows or grasses, Don’t try to control it, improvise it. See how the colours interact and react with each other or the surface, experiment w