Watercolour Painting

Today for art we have to write a blog post about the different techniques in watercolour painting. Watercolour is the easiest way of painting because you can rehydrate the paint after it is dried compared to acrylic paint after it is dried you cant use it again. There are 9 terms to Watercolour painting. Dilution is when you add water into the paint to lighten the colour of the paint. Glazing is when you apply thin transparent washes of one colour over another. Layering is when you apply premixed colours over another wash to change the value and intensity. Value or tone is when the range from light to dark of colour determine shadows and highlights of an object. Intensity is when the saturation of colour brightens or strengthens. Tint is when it's created by adding water to the original colour. The more water that's added the weaker in intensity. Movement is the effect you get when you let the water move the pigment across the page. Water into colour is when you use water to mix the paint on a palette then onto paper. Colour into water is when you paint the page with water first then add colour into it - the paint will only go where the after is. My favourite part of this was doing watercolour painting because I liked doing the water into colour then putting salt onto it after.