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Watercolor paintings shed more concentration and attention
on shadowed and highlight areas. The benefits of these paintings
are that they require less time for drying compared to other
paintings, which requires thinner and volatile fluid due to
which the cost increases.
Watercolor paintings when completed
can be dried by use of hair dryer to dry it faster.
These paintings require a neat clean and unwrinkled
paper and brush of any choice except the used oil paints
brush. Generally synthetic and red sables' brushes are
made use of, for water color paintings.
Paper towels with little bit of water helps in cleaning
the finished paintings along the borders to give a nice
paintings. Watercolor paintings show the relative transparency
of each color. One can identify the color easily with
naked eye. |
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In this type of painting, paints and pigments used should
have characteristics of Staining Quality, Sedimentary Quality
and Tinting Strength.
It gives more textural appearance with addition of additives and
other material as watercolor is a versatile medium. Watercolor paintings
show good color transparency, semi-transparency, or opacity, and
overlaying color.
Most paintings are successful due to area of dominance since the paintings draw the attention by showing contrast in the color values, intensity of color, hues from other paintings. The usage of light and dark colors of the paintings is much seen in Watercolor paintings. |
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