Painting with watercolors The Iris

Painting with watercolors The Iris

As I mentioned before I have never really used real watercolor paints so having now tried I find it difficult, absorbing, very different to oil and acrylic painting and very interesting.

I say this because when I painted the iris I tried to follow the technique's I saw on a couple of you- tube videos and it really is more difficult than it looks when a master painter is painting.

My paints are old tubes that I have had for a long time but I managed to find enough in them to use but if I want to get better colors I will have to buy newer fresher paints I think. My brushes were just fine as I have already a complete selection of brushes.

 I did find out that the paper you use is a challenge and had to try a different couple of things to make it less wavy when finished. The masking techniques were hard to do successfully but it is intriguing to do and I can see how it would be really helpful in some paintings.

I do like that it is far easier to set up and get going that the other kinds of painting plus you use only a very little paint. I guess the big expense would be to get the best kind of paper especially if you were to do a large painting.

I think the thing I found most interesting is that because of the water on both the paper and the paint you never can quite tell what effect you will get so it's always a surprise...at least to me.